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A group of bipartisan lawmakers led by House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul The Cyber Diplomacy Act, first introduced in 2017, would require the State Department to open a Bureau of International Cyberspace Policy. The head of the new office would be appointed by the president and given the rank of ambassador. The position would report directly to either the Secretary of State or a deputy.  The bureau would be tasked with leading the agency’s cybersecurity efforts, including through creating an international strategy to guide efforts by the United States to engage ...

New State Department cyber bureau stirs opposition Maggie Miller © Getty Images New State Department cyber bureau stirs opposition A newly established State Department bureau focused on cybersecurity and emerging technologies could give the Biden administration a launch pad for strengthening ties with allies after a massive Russian hack on the federal government. Yet the office is also facing pushback from both sides of the aisle amid concerns that it was rushed into creation by the Trump administration, and that it may make matters worse at an agency that has been without ...

This issue, that a, they're doing it, and b, they're going to pay a price. i hope that was a turning point in terms of the attention to this being paid by the administration. it has been pretty much radio silence, as you know, since the election. i think that is a turning point. they are doing it, they are taking it more seriously i think, and i hope that will be continuing. but it doesn't reassure you when the first thing that john bolten does is eliminate cyber coordinator in the national security council. that just doesn't make any sense given the magnitude of the risk. >> dan coats said th...

Commission and we're going to point out lessons learned and we're going to get started, he didn't do that. second, the white house did have under president obama and did have under president bush as well, a white house cyber coordinator who would try to pull together the various parts of the u.s. government that have interests in this. the cyber coordinator's job was eliminated by john bolton in the first week or two that he was in office. they have never really given a reason why. that office is goon. -- gone. at the very moment that the intelligence agencies are telling congress and i've bee...

We lost a huge opportunity, several of them. first, after the presidential election was over, the president, having received his briefings about the russians could have said i was legitimately elected but we have a big problem here. we can't have foreign countries interfering in our elections, so i'm starting up a 9/11 kind of commission, going to report out lessons learned and we're going to get started. he didn't do that. second, the white house used to have under president obama and a bit under president bush as well, a white house cyber coordinator, who would try to pull together the vario...