The fears, while rampant, were still based on conjecture: Russian hackers had essentially been caught scouting the systems, but not changing anything. And because none of the state officials had security clearances, Johnson’s phone call, from a vacation spot in the Adirondacks, was a failure. He had been prohibited from providing the state officials with any specifics. The classification rules—presumably intended to keep the Russians from learning that their activities were being watched—impeded Johnson’s ability to make his case. Once again, the reflexive assumption that all evidence of
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