Guest Post by James Grundvig, American Media Periscope
On Friday, June 16, the GovExec.com online magazine published an article explaining to its readership in the federal government’s agencies and departments that there was “no ‘systemic risk’ to government networks,” last week resulting from a spate of ransomware attacks, according to CISA.
On Saturday, scores of citizen reports began streaming into Twitter feeds and other social media platforms with video clips showing the U.S. military on the move in urban settings. The armed forces mobilized rubber-tire armored vehicles in Center City Philadelphia and V-22 Osprey aircraft transporting Marines to Laksper, California, north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franciso. Later, more videos captured trains moving tanks and heavy equipment across several states, tanks on the road in Idaho Falls, and squadrons of UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache Attack helicopters flying over San Diego and other places across America.
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