Infowars

Former top spy says U.S. not positioned to fight information wars in cyberspace

When U.S. officials realized last year that Russian intelligence services’ hacking into the IT systems of the Democratic National Committee was just one part of a full-featured information warfare operation, they faced a number of immediate problems, the nation’s former top spy said Wednesday.

James Clapper, who was director of national intelligence under President Barack Obama, said the first dilemma was well-understood: how to warn the American people about the Russian effort to meddle with the election without appearing to put a thumb on the scale of the presidential poll.

There was a second and much less well-understood problem, though: how to fight back.

“We don’t really have a good way to respond” to the efforts like those aimed at Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, Clapper said at Gigamon’s Public Sector Cybersecurity Summit.