Acting SecDef Shanahan on the Mueller report: US has 'tremendous capability' to counter Russian hackers

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By Jeff Schogol
Task and Purpose
April 18, 2019

The Russians are not the only game in town when it comes to cyberwarfare, 
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Thursday amid revelations in 
the Mueller report about how Russian intelligence officers interfered with the 
2016 presidential election.

Released on Thursday, a redacted copy of the report details how the GRU – 
Russian military intelligence – broke into government, company, and personal 
computers to steal a treasure trove of information that was used to smear 
Hillary Clinton.

But the U.S. government is not helpless against Russian hackers, said Shanahan, 
who has not read the Mueller report.

"The Russians present a risk," Shanahan told reporters on Thursday. "My job is 
to manage the risk. We have tremendous capability at Cyber Command and the 
NSA."

The Mueller report shows how GRU units waged a campaign aimed at tilting the 
2016 election in then candidate Donald Trump's favor. The Russians ultimately 
released hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks and other 
organizations to interfere with the presidential election.

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