Members vexed by Cyber Command turmoil

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Roll Call

Posted May 19, 2025 at 11:44am


A bipartisan chorus of House Armed Services Committee members expressed profound unease Friday about the Trump administration’s management of the military’s cyber operations.

The concerns, expressed at a hearing of the committee’s cyber panel, revolve around several matters, including the firing in April of the general who led U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, as well as cuts to the command’s workforce and what members called inadequate readiness.

Some Democrats also said they are unhappy about a halt in March to U.S. cyber operations and planning against Russian threats and what they worry is a retreat from countering certain forms of disinformation online.

“It’s time to stop talking about preparing for conflict [in cyberspace] because we are already in one,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., the panel’s chairman, said in an opening statement. “I, for one, believe that it’s now time that we start acting like it. However, recent actions by this administration raise concern for me as to whether they truly believe it.”

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[Karasu]

1. The military has every reason to overthrow this regime and coups have happened over far less. It's probably the only way

out of this shit at this point.

But I'm not about to get my hopes up.

[PSPS]

2. "whether they truly believe it" -- heck, they're counting on it

Open the spigot of russian disinformation and propaganda.

[IronLionZion]

3. Putin should warn him to stop being so obvious about being a Russian asset

[Skittles]

4. Trump perceives that "disinformation" as helping him

it certainly helped put him in office