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W. Weldon: “It is not a matter of if America has an electronic Pearl Harbor, but when. This past year when he came in before our…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2000
It is not a matter of if America has an electronic Pearl Harbor, but when. This past year when he came in before our committee, he said that we were at war, in a cyber war, at the very moment he came in, because we were in the middle of a massive attack on our defense information systems by an organized network that we think was focused in a selected few countries, but it has been a totally bipartisan effort.
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W. Weldon
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing cybersecurity and the importance of bipartisan efforts in addressing cyber threats.

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