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Jeh Johnson: “This was the Trojan Horse, 2016. 2016, I, as Secretary of Homeland Security, was very focused on potential cyber attacks…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2022
This was the Trojan Horse, 2016. 2016, I, as Secretary of Homeland Security, was very focused on potential cyber attacks on election infrastructure. And just before I left office, I declared the election infrastructure to be critical infrastructure. The Trojan Horse was the extent to which the Russian government invaded our American conversation.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York

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Jeh Johnson discusses the impact of Russian interference in the 2016 election and the misconception about cyber attacks on election infrastructure.

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