7/22/2017

CYBERWAR/FOREIGN POLICY/NSA/RUSSIA: “Adm. Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, said Saturday [7-23-17] that ‘now is probably not the best time’ to pursue a joint cybersecurity initiative with Russia — an idea that President Donald Trump floated following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month…
Senior Trump administration officials, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, touted a proposal to cooperate with Russia on cybersecurity as one of the key wins that came out of Trump’s meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 in Hamburg, Germany.
But fewer than 24 hours later, amid bipartisan criticism of the idea due to the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election, Trump appeared to reverse course on the proposal…
Rogers acknowledged Saturday that any move to cooperate with Russia would be a policy decision, saying he was ‘not a policy guy, you got to talk to somebody else, that’s not what we do.’ “

-Ryan Browne, “NSA director: ‘Now is probably not the best time’ for US-Russia cyber unit,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 22, 2017 08:35pm