In the Dark

On Saturday, the New York Times broke an interesting story (link here) about how the Pentagon has been aggressively hacking Russia's power grid to curb that country's attacking attempts in the United States.

Within the article is this most interesting revelation: Two administration officials revealed how Donald Trump "had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place 'implants' -- software code that can be used for surveillance or attack -- inside the Russian grid. Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister."

In a sentence: the Pentagon can't trust Trump out of fear he'll blab national security secrets to Vladimir Putin or some other Russian official. The law does not require them to notify the President about their cyber actions so they didn't bother.

Essentially, the Pentagon is saying a possible Russian intelligence asset is sitting in the Oval Office.

Not surprisingly, Trump completely lost his shit on Twitter about this article. He then contradicted himself by claiming the newspaper committed treason by reporting the story and that the story was not true.