Trump adviser: Russia not paying a high enough price for election interference

Thomas Bossert, President Trump’s homeland security adviser, said Thursday that Russia is “not paying enough” for its hacking during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“They are right now not paying enough. They’re not paying anything,” Bossert said during an Aspen Institute discussion in Aspen, Colo., according to Politico’s Eric Geller.

Bossert on whether Russia paid a price for its hacking: “They are right now not paying enough. They’re not paying anything.”

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 20, 2017 

Bossert also reportedly said Trump had pushed Putin “pretty directly” on international cybersecurity standards when the leaders met at the G-20 conference in July and advocated for a “multilateral, international obligation.”

Bossert says Trump told Putin “pretty directly” that we need international cyber norms.

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 20, 2017

Bossert: We need to decide what is acceptable and what is unacceptable on the internet. “That’s a multilateral, international obligation.”

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 20, 2017

Bossert said the U.S. is developing bilateral agreements on cybersecurity standards independently, according to Geller, without the aid of groups like the United Nations.

” ‘We will end up, hopefully, with a multilateral group of likeminded people’ that have all inked cyber agreements with the U.S.,” he reportedly said.

Bossert, like Joyce yesterday, says he wants U.S. to ink bilateral deals, not relying on larger groups like UN, to develop cyber norms.

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 20, 2017

Bossert: “We will end up, hopefully, with a multilateral group of likeminded people” that have all inked cyber agreements with the U.S.

— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 20, 2017