new york times about. naturally the russian government was none too pleased about these secret attacks after reading about them in the new york times kremlin spokes person to be announced the upcoming clandestine attacks denounced the upcoming clandestine attacks declaring this is alarming information this should this would be peer international cyber crime not to mention is wired senior writer andy greenberg accurately observes cyber policy wonks are quick to note that any rule that could justify civil war winds were tally ation is one that the u.s. also violates with its own cyber espionage and that as politically tempting as exacting punishment may be it would not only be hypocritical but also would it muddle up any real attempt to control the kremlin's other far more reckless acts of hacking and here in lies the real problem you see it appears the world's biggest super powers are wielding the most powerful of 21st century weaponry not for self defense but push or term revenge and political gain and never once asking that most important questions it's not about whether or not we can but whether or not we should and that my friends is wh

kremlin. it was directed specifically by russian president vladimir putin to try to get trump re-elected. and although he is not mentioned by name in the report, both "the new york times" and "the washington post" point out the obvious tonight, that rudy giuliani clearly is one of the major conduits for this russian disinformation that's described in the report, especially since one of the named russian intelligence operatives in the report, andriy derkach, met repeatedly with rudy giuliani in 2020, fed him all sorts of material that giuliani used in various media appearances. giuliani continued to defend that guy even after the guy was sanctioned by the u.s. government last year as a russian agent. "the post" notes tonight that giuliani's, quote, repeated meetings with the suspected russian agent came under scrutiny by u.s. officials. that is true. whatever you think about rudy giuliani's efforts to launder russian government disinformation to try to help vladimir putin interfere in our election on trump's behalf for a second time, rudy giuliani's involvement in these schemes has attracted scrutiny from u.s. investigators. and, frankly, that is another lit firecracke