Trump, Seeking to Relax Rules on U.S. Cyberattacks, Reverses Obama Directive
Source: Wall Street Journal
President Trump has reversed an Obama-era memorandum dictating how and when the U.S. government can deploy cyberweapons against its adversaries, in an effort to loosen restrictions on such operations, according to people familiar with the action.
Mr. Trump signed an order on Wednesday reversing the classified rules, known as Presidential Policy Directive 20, that had mapped out an elaborate interagency process that must be followed before U.S. use of cyberattacks, particularly those geared at foreign adversaries.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-seeking-to-relax-rules-on-u-s-cyberattacks-reverses-obama-directive-1534378721
This seems very bad.
Butterflylady
(3,537 posts)Is to reverse whatever President Obama has done.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Trump would not only reverse the law, but his idiot cultists would chug-a-lug the stuff as a celebratory "fuck you" to the Muslim Kenyan.
mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)It is so painful to witness this process of mass destruction. There never is any logical reason the reversals. He just does it to destroy. I can't wait until the day he is gone. What a party the US will have.
Marthe48
(16,894 posts)n/t
Maxheader
(4,370 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)tools....
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)Javaman
(62,497 posts)pecosbob
(7,533 posts)just Americans.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)looking for any and every rule to overturn.