by Paul Rosenzweig | Nov 4, 2019 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Homeland Security
In Washington, D.C., it is an article of faith that “the cover-up” is always worse than the crime. President Trump has upset that notion. Up to now, the conventional wisdom had a lot of empirical grounding: There is no evidence, for example, that…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 16, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
Lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s decision to join President Donald Trump’s legal team could backfire on the former New York mayor if potential clients of his international consulting business view him as too erratic and go elsewhere for representation,…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 1, 2018 | Donald Trump
Good Wednesday morning … President Trump will be “triggered” by the bleak leaks about the extent and intrusiveness of Robert Mueller’s investigation, and is likely to become more aggressive as he feels more threatened, sources close to the White…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Apr 24, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
Politics may also be blocking meaningful executive action on election cybersecurity. Paul Rosenzweig, a senior cybersecurity fellow at the libertarian R Street Institute, suggested that Trump’s unwillingness to confront the Kremlin over its actions…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Jan 22, 2018 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Election Security, Homeland Security
Today, however, the election process is vulnerable to manipulation by hostile powers. We know that (beyond social media manipulation) Russia quite brazenly hacked into the IT systems of political campaign committees and tried to gain access to data…
by Paul Rosenzweig | Dec 31, 2017 | Cybersecurity, Donald Trump, Homeland Security, National Security
And yet I was reminded of it when reflecting on the first year of the Trump presidency because to separately evaluate conventional benchmarks apart from the extreme transgressions of decency is as impossible a task as asking Mrs. Lincoln to assess…