one of the questions sheree paolello asked was, who cares? who would want to do that to us sherri of the questions asked was, who cares? who would want to do this to us? the russians. first of all, vladimir putin has already demonstrated successfully he can do this. in military terms, a threat is a combination of the capability right? intent to use, that is the end of that statement. he has the capability, and he did use it. we have both capability and intent here. he influenced our political process. democracy.bts on our look at washington today. he added to the political gridlock in washington. him.t very low cost to in military terms, this is a classic definition of a threat. ofri this level vulnerability -- we would never accept this level of vulnerability in any of our control systems. the targeting system, our weapons control systems, the systems that control our nuclear weapons, right? we would never accept the kind of vulnerability exposed at def con this year. so we have work to do. going away.t this was not a one-shot deal where the