Gen. Petraeus: The Need for a Calibrated Response to Russian Hacking

General David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA, says the U.S. response to Russian hacking of the 2016 election must be calibrated to avoid a hacking war between the two sides.

At a conference sponsored by Harvard University’s Belfer Center in Washington on Friday, Petraeus said there will have to be a U.S. response to the Russian hack, but the question is how to craft that response “knowing that we are more vulnerable than any other country” to further escalation in cyberspace.

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