Romney: Trump has ‘blind spot’ on Russia in face of hacking ‘invasion’ – By Ben Kamisar (NBC News) / Dec 20 2020
“This is an extraordinarily damaging invasion, and it went on for a long, long time,” Romney said.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, blasted Russia on Sunday for a cyberattack that he said amounted to an “invasion,” adding that President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to blame Russia shows that he has a “blind spot” when it comes to the country.
U.S. officials believe Russian intelligence was behind a suspected hacking campaign unveiled this month that infiltrated more than 40 organizations, including many government agencies and contractors.
But while top government officials, like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have publicly said it appears that Russia was behind the hack, Trump cast doubt on the assessment Saturday on Twitter, where he suggested that “it may be China” who perpetrated the hack.
“I was disappointed with the president’s comment,” Romney said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.” “But I think we’ve come to recognize that the president has a blind spot when it comes to Russia. And the reality here is that the experts, the people who really understand how our systems work and how computers work and software and so forth, the thousands upon thousands at the CIA and the NSA and the Department of Defense, have determined that this came from Russia.
