US government has been promising—or threatening—a more autonomous and aggressive Cyber Command, the sibling of the National Security Agency whose hackers are authorized to wage cyberwar and disrupt America’s adversaries with direct acts of digital sabotage. During last November’s congressional election, it seems, the newly empowered agency quietly flexed its muscles in an operation that took out internet access for Russia’s Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked hub of social media disinformation.

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