Bolton: Russia, China ‘undoubtedly’ interfering in 2020 U.S. elections
Establishing deterrence with foreign adversaries could be as simple as threatening action, Paul Rosenzweig, President George W. Bush’s deputy assistant secretary for policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, told CyberScoop.
“Deterrence involves raising the cost to adversaries of their actions. Today the Russians have suffered virtually no consequences for their interference in American elections. Any effort by the CIA or Cyber Command to redress that gap, if done in a proportional way, would be welcome,” Rosenzweig told CyberScoop. “But even better, it would be useful if the U.S. could convincingly declare its intent to retaliate, in a way that made it unnecessary to actually do so.”
