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Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro of Texas attempted to liken Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to 9/11, a domestic attack that took the lives of over 2,700 American civilians, firefighters and law enforcement officials.Castro wrote an op-ed Monday that argued that the attempts of 13 Russian nationals and three Russian agents to influence the 2016 presidential election were as much a threat to “national security†as an attack on American civilians carried out by a terrorist organization in September 2011.“Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced indictment charges against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for illegally influencing the 2016 presidential elections. But these indictments paint a picture of something much broader, akin to the first layer of an onion being peeled back on Russia’s broad, multi-year information operation to defraud the United States and boost Donald Trump’s candidacy,†Castro wrote.Castro went on to say that Mueller’s indictments are proof of a “new generation of warfare on American national security,†one that, while not marked by “catastrophic bloodshed,†is still as big a threat to the American way of live as the 9/11 attacks.
