RE: SolarWinds Russian Hack - is it reasonable to believe it is real?
December 21, 2020 at 8:40 am
The complicity of an admin goes to the allocation of resources, focus, and opportunity.
For example, multiple cyber security bills have been proposed and blocked due to their proximity to the russian issue. It's not certain that any action we might have taken would have prevented this, but in retrospect (and, for sane people, before the fact) it seems silly for an american president or party to shoot itself in the foot on security on account of legal or political embarrassment. It has become clear that simply saying the word russia is career suicide under this admin, and we already know that the rank and file had been ringing the fire alarm on this one, but we don't know how many non public and perhaps even specific warnings this admin ignored and/or plowed over.
It's reasonable to assume that this admins rejection of reality left it not so much incapable of dealing with the issue as dogmatically opposed to doing so. Textbook institutional failure. While it may not be likely that we catch all of this stuff before the fact - it's even more likely that we will fail to detect those things we would rather not find, or would refuse to see.
Beyond that, as far as personal accountability...as we all know, our president takes no responsibility.
For example, multiple cyber security bills have been proposed and blocked due to their proximity to the russian issue. It's not certain that any action we might have taken would have prevented this, but in retrospect (and, for sane people, before the fact) it seems silly for an american president or party to shoot itself in the foot on security on account of legal or political embarrassment. It has become clear that simply saying the word russia is career suicide under this admin, and we already know that the rank and file had been ringing the fire alarm on this one, but we don't know how many non public and perhaps even specific warnings this admin ignored and/or plowed over.
It's reasonable to assume that this admins rejection of reality left it not so much incapable of dealing with the issue as dogmatically opposed to doing so. Textbook institutional failure. While it may not be likely that we catch all of this stuff before the fact - it's even more likely that we will fail to detect those things we would rather not find, or would refuse to see.
Beyond that, as far as personal accountability...as we all know, our president takes no responsibility.
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