Over the next few days we reached out to Bolton and Nakasone through their spokesmen, both of whom declined to answer our questions about the U.S. grid attacks. But when David went to the National Security Council and presented them with the details we were prepared to publish, something curious happened. Typically, with sensitive national security stories, there is pushback. This time, there was none. They had no national security concerns whatsoever about the publication of our story, officials said. It was the clearest evidence yet that our attacks on Russia’s grid were intended to be
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