My jaw dropped when I watched Admiral Michael Rogers, then director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command, tell Congress that Trump never asked him to do anything to deter future Russian cyber attacks. Imagine if after Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt had told his generals to just “let it go”—or if after 9/11, George W. Bush waited a year before holding his first cabinet-level National Security Council meeting on terrorism. Americans didn’t die in Russia’s attack on our democracy, but it was an attack. Yet the administration has been extremely slow to enforce the
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