They had the capacity to show that our defense is extraordinarily inadequate, that that our cyber warfare readiness is extraordinarily weak, that that they think so little of our ability to fight back from a cyber standpoint that they, they do this with impunity. So our national security is extraordinarily vulnerable. And in this setting, not to have the White House aggressively speaking out, and protesting and taking punitive action is really pretty quite extraordinary.
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Romney criticizes the inadequacy of U.S. cyber defenses and the lack of response from the White House regarding a major Russian cyber attack.
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When I was serving as Governor of Massachusetts, I would hear occasionally some stories that gave me some concern.
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