| In this case, I'm not sure I'd agree with you, and I'll say why and I'm curious if you have another take that I haven't thought of. This has to be a top priority in the intelligence community, I mean like the CIA has had teams of in-house Engineers and Scientists reviewing classified information on available etiologies, plus they've probably pulled reams of SIGINT data to see if they can find any clues. If it's being deployed in the field, the underlying tech has probably been around for a while. It's happened in multiple major cities, so if it is an intelligence op being run by a foreign government, there's a big team running the thing working with different communications channels and crossing multiple national borders, which means there's a high risk of some information leak from the program. Anyone in the U.S. defense industrial complex working on a similar weapon would have let the IC know, because it's great advertising for their weapon and could lead to some very lucrative contracts in both the offensive and defensive space. So, just to pull a number off the top of my head, I'd say there's like an 85% chance someone knows what's going on. So, then that might help us narrow-down which nation the attacks would be originating from. If we know what is doing it, and who is doing it, the President has probably been briefed on it. If China was orchestrating it, Trump probably would have just said something by now. Same for Cuba or Iran. It would play strongly in his favor politically considering the ongoing diplomatic hostilities with those nations. Russia perhaps? Trump probably wouldn't call out Russia based on his response to the bounty thing: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/29/trump-russian-bount... The attacks started in Havana, and if you've ever seen the Russian embassy in Havana, it's RIGHT out of a 70's Bond movie. Seriously, look it up. The building is awesome. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_Russia_in_Havana If there's anything going on in Havana, the Russians either know about it, or are involved in it. It's their diplomatic backyard, they've been there since forever, and it's a pretty small city. Idle speculation (just for fun). My money is on: A. Russia has something to do with it. B. President won't publicly call them out on it. C. Intelligence community is frustrated, so they're encouraging affected employees to go public in hopes that someone outside of the security-clearance bubble will figure out what's going on. /Pretending I'm a super-secret squirrel. |