{"id":19234,"date":"2020-12-18T16:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=19234"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:17:46","slug":"lawmakers-asking-whether-cyberattack-is-act-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/lawmakers-asking-whether-cyberattack-is-act-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Asking Whether Cyberattack Is Act of War"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeffrey Rodack – December 18, 2020<\/p>\n

Congressional lawmakers are questioning whether the cyberattack on the federal government is an act of war.<\/p>\n

According to The Hill<\/a>, the cyberattack, widely attributed to Russia, may be the biggest in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

It noted any U.S. response could be complicated by the presidential transition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be buddies with\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0and have him at the same time making this kind of cyberattack on America,\u201d Sen.\u00a0Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told CNN<\/a>. \u201cThis is virtually a declaration of war by Russia on the United States and we should take that seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, told\u00a0SiriusXM\u2019s Olivier Knox<\/a> in a Thursday interview: \u201cWhat I find most astonishing is that a cyberhack of this nature is really the modern equivalent of almost Russian bombers reportedly flying undetected over the entire country.\u00a0And they didn\u2019t drop bombs, but they had the capacity to show that our defense is extraordinarily inadequate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Energy Department and its National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains America\u2019s nuclear stockpile, were targeted<\/a> as part of a broader attack, according to a person familiar with the matter. The hack didn\u2019t affect mission-essential national security functions.<\/p>\n

In addition, three unidentified states were also targeted.<\/p>\n

CNN reported that Marco Rubio urged people not to jump to conclusions.<\/p>\n

“There’s still information gathering occurring, so I’d caution anyone reaching conclusions or making pronouncements until all that is in,” said Rubio, who is Senate Intelligence Committee chairman.<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey Rodack – December 18, 2020 Congressional lawmakers are questioning whether the cyberattack on the federal government is an act of war. According to The Hill, the cyberattack, widely attributed to Russia, may be the biggest in U.S. history. It noted any U.S. response could be complicated by the presidential transition. \u201cWe can\u2019t be buddies … Continue reading Lawmakers Asking Whether Cyberattack Is Act of War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[9944,15453,15455,11,15454,821,8,9],"class_list":["post-19234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-act-of-war","tag-cyberattack","tag-marco-rubio","tag-russia","tag-sen-dick-durbin","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-world-war-iii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-50e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19243,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions\/19243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}