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Trump and the complexities of the cyber era
US intelligence chiefs told a Senate committee today Russia was more aggressive than ever in hacking to influence last year's US election. Donald Trump's denial of that claim has created a crisis of credibility, and agency leaders said today they want to be as public as possible.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readUS intelligence chiefs told a Senate committee today Russia was more aggressive than ever in hacking to influence last year's US election. Donald Trump's denial of that claim has created a crisis of credibility, and agency leaders said today they want to be as public as possible. But Senators agreed that too much openness would threaten the lives of agents and waste the billions invested in worldwide cyber-spying. Is Trump onto something American spies don't know, or is he concerned that reports of Russian influence will de-legitimize his election?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Elizabeth Segal
freelance journalist
Richard Clarke
Good Harbor Security Risk Management
Shane Harris
Washington Post reporter covering intelligence and national security
Thomas Rid
Kings College London
The full episode
2 of 3Donald Trump’s war on US intelligence- 1:26National intel chiefs testify on Capitol Hill
- 7:59Trump and the complexities of the cyber eraYou’re reading this
- 41:43North Korea's threat in the Trump era