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I believe that Obama, McCain and others with oversight over US CIA/NSA were playing it 'coy' when they were shocked! shocked! that the Russians would do such a thing. Their secret briefing surely mean/meant that they know we do much worse and more meddling in other countries affairs. It's just not public, of course. Some of the outrage/traitor labels against Snowden were, of course, that he unconvered some of those opertions - Stuxnet developed with Israel meant to destroy Iran's centrifuges - was never meant to be anything but a covert operation. Our response was either of false outrage, or less virulent than one would think - we're doing what the Russians are doing, only more and with worse effects. These things just don't come to light often. Currently about 60 nations are trying to develop battlefield AI systems. Funny, we've never hear about that. (Except in books like Barrett's 'AI - Our Final Invention.) (And no, I am not being paranoid,lol)