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Ed Markey: If there is some group out there that can crack into the NSA and steal our cyber weapons and then we cannot talk about…

On the recordJune 12, 2017
If there is some group out there that can crack into the NSA and steal our cyber weapons and then we cannot talk about who they are, it is hard to have a public policy response in terms of what our paradox of them would be.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Markey highlights the difficulty in formulating policy after NSA breaches.

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