Washington promised to respond to what is believed to be the largest cyber attack targeting the United States, while the US President faced an accusation of treason after Russia acquitted him of the attack, which US officials asserted that containing its repercussions would take a long time.

Reuters quoted a spokesman for the US National Security Council yesterday evening, Saturday, that his country would respond appropriately to those behind the cyber attack.

This comment comes hours after President Donald Trump posted two tweets on Twitter in which he contradicted his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, who directly accused Russia of involvement in large-scale cyber-piracy operations that targeted US government agencies, including the Nuclear Security Administration, the Ministries of State, Defense, Treasury and Energy, and companies Especially linked to the federal government.

While US officials described the cyber attack as dangerous, and perhaps the largest in US history, Trump played down it, saying that the issue of cyber piracy is not as massive as what he described as fake media.

The outgoing president said that the accusation is always directed at Russia because the media, for financial reasons, are afraid to point to China, which could be responsible for this, as he put it.

He also said that he is fully aware of the case and that everything is under control.

Pompeo said, in the context of accusing Moscow of being behind the piracy, that Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a threat to freedom-lovers, and added that work is underway to assess what happened, stressing that some information will remain confidential.

Accusation of treason


and Trump's denial of the accusation from Russia sparked the indignation of a number of his opponents in Congress who had previously accused him of colluding with Moscow to help him win the 2016 presidential election, and that accusation was at the heart of the investigation that was later led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and resulted in the incrimination of the current president. .

In the context of reactions to the position of the outgoing president, the head of the House Intelligence Committee, Democrat Adam Schiff, described Trump's tweet about the hacking operation as "yet another blatant betrayal" of the president to US national security.

Schiff said that Trump's tweet appeared to be written in the Kremlin (the Russian presidency), adding that it was "another despicable display of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin," and another reason why Trump did not leave office quickly enough.

For his part, Democratic Representative Jason Crowe said that the time has come to speak seriously, and that a dangerous opponent of the United States has now reached the defense, intelligence, policing, and financial institutions of the United States.

Crowe, a member of the House of Representatives Intelligence and Armed Services Committee, indicated that Trump is downplaying this attack, which is the largest in American history, and distracts the blame from Russia, threatening to issue a veto against the Defense Ministry's budget and expel defense and cyber security officials.

In the meantime, the Associated Press said that the US president's tweets that reduced the severity of the US government's electronic penetration and pointed the finger at China, surprised US officials.

The agency added that the White House was preparing a statement linking Russia to the process of electronic piracy, but officials came to a notice to stop this.

President-elect Joe Biden had threatened the Russians, individuals and entities, who were behind the massive cyber attack, stressing that cybersecurity would be among the priorities of his administration, which is supposed to take power on January 20.

Investigations and repercussions For


its part, CNN reported 3 sources that it described as well-informed that those responsible for monitoring cyber risks on the most important American infrastructure have known for months about suspicious activities, and that these activities have only now been linked with widespread electronic piracy Which was exposed to the United States recently.

The network quoted two unnamed sources that the preliminary investigations did not show any confidential data breach, but it is continuing to see if the hackers were able to obtain government information.

US media have reported that Trump administration officials have proposed a separation between the NSA and cyber leadership.

In the same context, the Wall Street Journal quoted a senior US intelligence official as saying that it takes months, if not years, to know the dimensions of the recent cyber piracy and overcome its repercussions.

The American official said that the dimensions of the operation are amazing and large, given its cautious and disguised nature, and added that what is most disturbing about it is the inability so far to identify the affected computer systems, noting that the initial assessment shows that there is no evidence of the influence of secret systems by piracy.

The newspaper quoted a former intelligence official with decades of experience in the field of electronic security as saying that the country's continued exposure to electronic attacks without the ability to deter them is confusing, and that all what any American administration did did not result in any deterrence, adding that the country is weak in front of this kind. From attacks.

While the United States is investigating the damage it may have sustained as a result of the cyber attack, which officials are likely to have launched last March, NATO announced that after examining its information systems, it found no evidence that it had been hacked.

As for Britain, it said it is working with its international partners to understand the extent of piracy and its impact on it.