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Из вчерашнего выступления Джорджа Буша в Нью-Йорке:

America is experiencing the sustained attempt by a hostile power to feed and exploit our country’s divisions. According to our intelligence services, the Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other. This effort is broad, systematic and stealthy, it’s conducted across a range of social media platforms. Ultimately, this assault won’t succeed. But foreign aggressions - including cyber-attacks, disinformation and financial influence - should not be downplayed or tolerated. This is a clear case where the strength of our democracy begins at home. We must secure our electoral infrastructure and protect our electoral system from subversion.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/19/full-text-george-w-bush-speech-trump-243947

С защитой от кибератак дело пока что обстоит неважно.В марте усилиями Ангуса Кинга и других сенаторов было принято предписание Пентагону подготовить доклад о стратегии ответа на кибератаки со стороны враждебных государств.

By law, Defense Secretary James Mattis is required to report to Trump and Congress on the military and nonmilitary options the U.S. has for deterring and responding to cyber threats and malicious cyber activity carried out by foreign governments and terrorist groups.
That report is due to Trump in four months, after which the new administration has six months to deliver its own report to Congress.
Mattis has said he wants to develop a national strategy to respond to acts of cyber aggression, though it is unclear if he supports developing a definition of cyber war.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/321682-legislators-grapple-with-cyber-war-rules

Назначенные сроки для подготовки доклада прошли, но, как выяснилось на вчерашних слушаниях в Комиссии Сената по вооруженным силам, не сделано было ничего.

That report has not yet been completed, a top Pentagon official told senators on Thursday, despite the deadline that passed earlier this year.
“We will be submitting it to you shortly,” said Kenneth Rapuano, the assistant defense secretary for homeland defense and global security
“Shortly doesn’t make me feel better. Is that geologic time?” answered Sen. Angus King (I-Maine).
“If all we do is try to patch networks and defend ourselves, we will ultimately lose,” King continued. “Right now, we are not imposing much in the way of consequences.”
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/356269-frustrated-senators-demand-cyber-war-strategy-from-trump

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Что касается защиты от попыток расшатать раскол в американском обществе средствами пропаганды, то по этому поводу группой сенаторов на межпартийной основе предложен новый законопроект. Honest Ads Act обяжет Интернет сайты с массовой аудиторией (вроде Фейсбука) раскрывать источник политической рекламы подобно тому, как это делают телеканалы.

“Online political advertising represents an enormous marketplace, and today there is almost no transparency. The Russians realized this, and took advantage in 2016 to spread disinformation and misinformation in an organized effort to divide and distract us,” Senator Warner said. “Our bipartisan Honest Ads Act extends transparency and disclosure to political ads in the digital space. At the end of the day, it is not too much to ask that our most innovative digital companies work with us by exercising additional judgment and providing some transparency.”
“First and foremost this is an issue of national security - Russia attacked us and will continue to use different tactics to undermine our democracy and divide our country, including by purchasing disruptive online political ads. We have to secure our election systems and we have to do it now - the next election is only 383 days away,” Senator Klobuchar said. “This bipartisan legislation would help protect our democracy by updating our laws to ensure that political ads sold online are covered by the same rules as TV or radio stations - and make them public so Americans can see who is trying to influence them.”
“In the wake of Russia’s attack on the 2016 election, it is more important than ever to strengthen our defenses against foreign interference in our elections,” said Senator McCain.“Unfortunately, U.S. laws requiring transparency in political campaigns have not kept pace with rapid advances in technology, allowing our adversaries to take advantage of these loopholes to influence millions of American voters with impunity. Our bipartisan legislation would address this serious challenge by expanding landmark campaign finance law to apply to internet and digital communications platforms that command a significant audience. I have long fought to increase transparency and end the corrupting influence of special interests in political campaigns, and I am confident this legislation will modernize existing law to safeguard the integrity of our election system.”
https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/klobuchar-warner-mccain-introduce-legislation-to-improve-national-security-and-protect-integrity-of-u-s-elections-by-bringing-transparency-and-accountability-to-online-political-ads



Как и Буш, Джон Маккейн не называл Трампа по имени в своей речи при вручении Liberty Medal в Филадельфии, но атаковал идею трампизма.

“We are blessed, and we have been a blessing to humanity in turn. The international order we helped build from the ashes of world war, and that we defend to this day, has liberated more people from tyranny and poverty than ever before in history. This wondrous land has shared its treasures and ideals and shed the blood of its finest patriots to help make another, better world. And as we did so, we made our own civilization more just, freer, more accomplished and prosperous than the America that existed when I watched my father go off to war on December 7, 1941.
“To fear the world we have organized and led for three-quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain 'the last best hope of earth' for the sake of some half-baked, spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems is as unpatriotic as an attachment to any other tired dogma of the past that Americans consigned to the ash heap of history.
“We live in a land made of ideals, not blood and soil. We are the custodians of those ideals at home, and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. That leadership has had its costs, but we have become incomparably powerful and wealthy as we did. We have a moral obligation to continue in our just cause, and we would bring more than shame on ourselves if we don’t. We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.
https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/10/remarks-by-senator-john-mccain-at-2017-liberty-medal-ceremony

Когда в ответ на эту речь Трамп выступил с угрозами в адрес Маккейна, тот спокойно ответит: "I have faced tougher adversaries."
https://apnews.com/cd337697c2f04726b69076627c014eb7/Trump-warns-'I-fight-back'-after-McCain-hits-foreign-policy