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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4718479" data-attributes="member: 48469"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/19/948318197/pompeo-russia-pretty-clearly-behind-massive-solarwinds-cyberattack" target="_blank">Pompeo Says Russia &#039;Pretty Clearly&#039; Behind Cyberattack, Prompting Pushback From Trump</a>&quot;Since news of the SolarWinds hack surfaced nearly a week ago, high-ranking Trump administration officials had remained largely silent about the cyberattack that involved at least half a dozen federal agencies. On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke that silence, becoming the most prominent administration official to blame Russia for the attack.&quot;This was a very significant effort,&quot; Pompeo <a href="https://www.marklevinshow.com/2020/12/18/my-interview-with-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo/" target="_blank">told the The Mark Levin Show</a>, &quot;and I think it&#039;s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity.&quot;&quot;We&#039;re still unpacking precisely what it is, and I&#039;m sure some of it will remain classified,&quot; Pompeo said. &quot;But suffice it to say, there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems and, it now appears, the systems of private companies and governments across the world, as well.&quot;Pompeo&#039;s comments represented the farthest the Trump administration has been willing to go so far in publicly attributing the hack to Russia.President Trump, who went nearly a week without mentioning the suspected attack, appeared to suggest Saturday that Russia may not be the culprit. He <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340333618691002368" target="_blank">tweeted that</a> the attack is &quot;far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4718479, member: 48469"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/2020/12/19/948318197/pompeo-russia-pretty-clearly-behind-massive-solarwinds-cyberattack']Pompeo Says Russia 'Pretty Clearly' Behind Cyberattack, Prompting Pushback From Trump[/URL] "Since news of the SolarWinds hack surfaced nearly a week ago, high-ranking Trump administration officials had remained largely silent about the cyberattack that involved at least half a dozen federal agencies. [B]On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke that silence, becoming the most prominent administration official to blame Russia for the attack. "This was a very significant effort," Pompeo [URL='https://www.marklevinshow.com/2020/12/18/my-interview-with-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo/']told the The Mark Levin Show[/URL], "and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity."[/B] "We're still unpacking precisely what it is, and I'm sure some of it will remain classified," Pompeo said. "But suffice it to say, there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems and, it now appears, the systems of private companies and governments across the world, as well." Pompeo's comments represented the farthest the Trump administration has been willing to go so far in publicly attributing the hack to Russia. President Trump, who went nearly a week without mentioning the suspected attack, appeared to suggest Saturday that Russia may not be the culprit. He [URL='https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1340333618691002368']tweeted that[/URL] the attack is "far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality." [/QUOTE]

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