“We have seen nation-states spending a lot of time and a lot of effort to try to gain access to the power structure within the United States, to other critical infrastructure, and you have to ask yourself why,” said Adm. Rogers, the director of the NSA and the head of Cyber Command until the spring of 2018. “It’s because in my mind they are doing this with a purpose, doing this as a way to generate options and capabilities for themselves should they decide that they want to potentially do something.” This, of course, is exactly what we were doing to Iran.
