{"id":35874,"date":"2021-06-01T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35874"},"modified":"2021-06-01T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:48:03","slug":"under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35874","title":{"rendered":"UNDER PRESSURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Officials are calling for harsher measures against Russia following Microsoft\u2019s assessment that hackers behind the devastating SolarWinds hack were continuing to launch cyberattacks against U.S. government agencies and other organizations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdqsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccptspp_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mdqsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccptspp_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622673548542000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPCTwudlZ5bSkHha05dLPf_Snoow\">President Biden<\/a>\u00a0just last month levied sweeping sanctions on Russia in retaliation for both the SolarWinds hack and election interference. But in the wake of the new hacking efforts, some officials are urging the Biden administration to get tougher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Moscow is responsible, this brazen act of utilizing emails associated with the U.S. government demonstrates that Russia remains undeterred despite sanctions following the SolarWinds attack,\u201d House Intelligence Committee Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fryrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddybyqq_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fryrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglddybyqq_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622673548542000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFvxjR6hbUcPP8nvF6gVax194MokQ\">Adam Schiff<\/a>\u00a0(D-Calif.) said in a statement Friday. \u201cThose sanctions gave the administration flexibility to tighten the economic screws further if necessary \u2014 it now appears necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvfsfnv_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvvfsfnv_pjjhmmjqjbhlqqmdcfqy.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1622673548542000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGiih2iJg35SH3HVN3sz_1zn44T0g\">Mark Warner<\/a>\u00a0(D-Va.) had similar thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to step up our cyber defenses, and we must make clear to Russia \u2014 and any other adversaries \u2014 that they will face consequences for this and any other malicious cyber activity,\u201d Warner said in a separate statement Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Officials are calling for harsher measures&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35875,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35874\/revisions\/35875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}