Even before the election Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin directed hackers to penetrate the e-mail accounts of high-ranking Democratic officials.
Thompson discusses warnings about Russian hacking prior to the Presidential election.
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Essentially turning them into 'jails,' which the Mississippi Democrat says would constitute a misuse of the facilities.
There you have it. House Republicans have an hour to debate a nonbinding symbolic resolution but not even a few seconds to do the job that would actually pay our DHS workers. This is the Republican DHS shutdown.
At a time when DHS is rightly warning about an elevated threat environment from terrorists and cartels, we should be focused on plugging security gaps rather than senselessly creating new ones.
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