Obama’s cyber chief confirms he was told to stand down when he tried to counter Russian cyberattacks
Former President Barack Obama's onetime cyber chief confirmed at a Senate Intelligence hearing this week that he had tried to come up with countermeasures to Russian cyberattacks in 2016 — and been told to "stand down." The order, he said, came from former national security adviser Susan Rice. Does this sound familiar? Michael Daniel, cybersecurity coordinator from 2012 through the end of Obama's presidency, previously provided this information for the book “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump,” written by Yahoo's Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones's David Corn. What are the...
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