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EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) plans to force votes on the Pentagon nominees to lead the Navy's 5th and 7th Fleets and U.S. Cyber Command as patience wears thin over his military blockade.
Army Gen. Paul Nakasone warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that Russia remains a “very capable adversary” in cyberspace and could unleash a barrage of cyberattacks against Ukraine and the West as part of a military push deeper into Ukraine.
opera singers either. yet for some reason, twitter seems to need an awful lot of spies. >> the upper ranks of twitter, we now know we're absolutely loaded with people who once did intel work for government agencies. >> at least 15 of these people and possibly many more . >> most of them were hired in the wake of donald trump's election. now, what were these people doing all day and what was supposedly a social media company? >> well, that's the question, isn't it? we know that james baker came from the fbi has been accused of secretly censoring incriminating internal files before elon musk could release them to the public. baker was fired for that. so that's some of what james baker was doing at twitter. but how about charles smith of twitters trust and safety department? smith joined twitter after working at us cyber command. hmm. or how about jeff topcoder, formerly a director of naval counterintelligence? what was he doing? or kevin michalina or doug hunt or mark jasinowski or douglas turner? or karen walsh. russell handler. vincent luzira. all of these people once worked
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and chairman of the influential Republican Study Committee, has written a letter to the head of U.S. Cyber Command, giving notice that it should preserve documents related to the Department of Defense's decision to award a $750,000 contract to NewsGuard.
>> during today's hearings, the head of u.s. cyber command expressed surprise at the lack of cyberattacks coming from russia so far. the director of national intelligence testified that she expects russia will find it, quote, especially challenging to hold control of territory or to install a pro russian regime in ukraine. but even though things are so far not going as planned for putin, intelligence officials do not believe that the russian leader will give up anytime soon. the cia director, william burns, who is himself a former u.s. ambassador to russia, testified that he believes vladimir putin is angry right now and likely to, quote, doubled down and try to grind down the ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties. vladimir putin may be operating with very little regard for russian casualties as well, the head of the defense intelligence agency put a number on the u.s. estimate of russian casualties saying the
there are two other big elements to this. one is a cyber component. u.s. cyber command is dispatched, mission teams out there, presumably go after the russian communications and their ability to operate, and then, of course, there's this debate about whether or not poland could lend or give ukraine these fighters and whether russia would view nato as having fully entered the conflict, which is something president biden has been trying to avoid. >> so, general, on david's reporting about the 20,000 anti-tank anti-aircraft weapons that have been pushed in, on top of this conversation now about potentially having poland send in fighter jets, what does that level of fire power and just military strength, what does it mean to this fight? where do you think on this map where we've all become so familiar with that this is
men between 18 and 60 are required to stay in ukraine and fight. meanwhile, today in washington, the leaders of america's intelligence community testified on capitol hill, giving their latest assessment of vladimir putin's invasion of ukraine. those officials painted a picture of a russian government that is unsettled. unsettled by the strength of the ukrainian resistance. unsettled by the coordination between western governments, and unsettled by the early failures of russian's own military. >> putin has come into, privately and publicly he -- doesn't believe ukraine's a real country. he was dead wrong about that. we'll countries fight back, and that's with the ukrainians have done, quite heroically over the last 12 days. his military planning in -- on a quick decisive victory. that has not proven to be the case. >> during today's hearings, the head of u.s. cyber command expressed surprise at the lack
the russian empire is taking one stef step closer to collapse. we'll see if that plays out. >> richard engel, thank you so much. please try to stay safe. and joining us now. retired admiral, former director of the national security agency and u.s. cyber command, who's a spokesperson on election integrity. former ambassador to russia and former press secretary for president zelenskyy. first, what is your reaction to increase in shelling? i haven't spoken to you since artillery fire against western -- against the military base in western ukraine. >> i think clearly putin is rying to send a broader message. moving more kinetic activity a in the west is designed to stop the flow of materials into
defense agency to keep america safe from malicious cyber activity. it's really important to understand how adversaries think. i like to talk about it as adversarial empathy. being on the offensive side, having been working at the national security agency standing up the army's first cyber battalion, happening to stand up u.s. cyber command, you understand how cyber actors operate and understanding that adversarial playbook often makes it easier or at least helps to facilitate an understanding of how you put your defenses up. >> ask your concern now the intent is there? >> i think what makes the moment different is just seeing what the russians have done with this unproven invasion of ukraine and then understanding there can be some very real consequences of that in cyberspace particularly