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Elections are always a high-security event. we were expecting certain kinds of cyber attacks and we found them. the russians were trying to hack into certain accounts and we told the people and the fbi and all that, but we weren't on top of these foreign operations. we spent the last ocouple of years building up our system and strengthening it. anybody who wants to say upon learning about this we haven't been very focused about trying to address it and anyone who says we haven't made a lot of progress, i just think that's not right. >> reporter: i think folks talk about transparency, the idea ...

Chief security officer wanted to publish a transparency paper, and every mention of russia was taken out. was encouraged not to put russia in that transparency paper. do you regret not being more transparent at the time or not getting -- not being more vocal about it at the time? >> you know, i wish that we understood the issues sooner. i wish we understood it before 2016, before the russians tried to do these information operations in the first place. now i do think sometimes people say, well, how did you not know this? and i think in some of these cases, it's a really big deal to come out an...

Security event. we were expecting certain kinds of cyber attacks. we found them. the russians were trying to hack into specific accounts. we told the people and the fbi and all of that. we weren't on top of these coordinated information operations. we spent a lot of the last couple of years now basically building up our systems and strengthening them to be able to address this. we have been very focussed on this and invested a lot in it. anyone who wants to say that upon learning about this we haven't been very focussed on trying to both address it and that we have -- anyone who says we haven'...

All that. but we weren't on top of these coordinated information operations. so we've spent a lot of the last couple of years now basically building up our systems and strengthening them to be able to address this. but we've been very focussed on this and invested a lot in it. anyone who says we haven't been focussed on trying to both address it and also that we -- i think anyone who says that we haven't made a lot of progress, i just think that's not right. >> reporter: i think folks talk about transparency, the idea the former chief security officer wanted to publish a transparency paper and...

Fbi and all that. but we weren't on top of these coordinating information operations. so we have spent a lot of the last couple of years now basically building up our systems and strengthening them to be able to address this. but we have been very focussed on this and have invested a lot in it. anyone that wants to say that upon learning about this we haven't been very focussed on trying to both address it and also that we have -- i think anyone who says that we haven't made a lot of progress, i just think that's not right. >> folks talk about transparency, though. this idea that they wanted t...