
US cyber defense halt against Russia stuns Republican ‘considering what we are facing’
Raw StoryA prominent Republican congressman, the former House Intelligence Committee chair, appeared shocked on national television when he learned that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered a top Pentagon agency, U.S. Cyber Command, to suspend operations and planning against Russia’s cyber offensives. “Russia is not a significant cyber threat to the U.S. anymore, Trump’s new Defense Secretary says,” the science and technology website Gizmodo reported. Veteran cyber expert James Lewis, formerly of the Center for Strategic and International Studies said “it’s delusional to think” the stand down order “will turn Russia and the FSB into our friends,” The Guardian reported. On Sunday’s “Face the Nation,” CBS News’ Margaret Brennan told Congressman Turner, that “CBS has confirmed these reports that Defense Secretary Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to temporarily halt cyber operations and planning against Russia. “Considering what I know that – that – considering what I know what – what Russia is currently doing against the United States, that would, I’m certain, not be an accurate statement of the current status of the United States’ operations,” Turner insisted, despite multiple news reports confirming the stand down order.
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