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🗓️ 24 October 2018
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0:00.0 | The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Delta Airlines, the commercial airline the U.S. military |
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0:11.7 | Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily |
0:15.6 | 2002 for Wednesday, October 24th. In today's news, the Trump administration makes its first tangible move against the Saudis. |
0:27.0 | The White House politicizes the VA, and a second migrant caravan is forming in El Salvador. |
0:37.0 | But first, the big idea. |
0:40.0 | US Cyber Command has begun targeting Russian operatives, warning them that the military is tracking their activities, |
0:47.6 | in an attempt to deter them from disrupting the fast approaching midterm elections. |
0:52.4 | This operation which began in recent days fast approaching midterm elections. |
0:52.6 | This operation, which began in recent days, is the first under a new presidential |
0:57.0 | order easing restrictions on offensive cyberspace actions against foreign networks. This is Cyber Command's initial |
1:05.3 | foray into safeguarding US elections. The news that the operation has begun |
1:10.4 | comes as President Trump's national security advisor John Bolton |
1:14.0 | warned senior officials including Vladimir Putin in Moscow that he considers |
1:18.6 | any Russian interference in the American election process intolerable. |
1:24.0 | The digital alerts, which could take the form of text or direct messages, pop-ups, or even emails, |
1:29.6 | are implicit warnings meant to stay below the level of an armed attack. |
1:33.7 | U.S. national security officials tell my colleague Ellen Nakashima that they do not want to |
1:38.4 | provoke the Russians into counter-attacking. They just want them to cut it out. The targets include military hackers and |
1:45.3 | so-called trolls financed by Russian oligarchs who are close with Putin. The |
1:50.0 | campaign is being led by General Paul Nocassoni, who wears two hats. |
1:54.8 | He's the head of the military cyber command and the National Security Agency. |
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