Dem lawmakers renew calls for release of delayed telecom security report

Two Democratic senators are reupping calls for the public release of a 2022 report on telecommunications industry security vulnerabilities that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said months ago it would disclose. 

In a Nov. 12-dated letter, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mark Warner, D-Va., pressed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to release the unclassified document, which they called “critically important to U.S. national security.”

“The continued suppression of a report identifying serious vulnerabilities of the U.S. telecommunications sector undermines the public’s understanding of these threats and stymies an important public debate on a path forward to secure the U.S. telecommunications sector and protect the U.S. Government and all Americans who rely on that sector,” the lawmakers wrote. 

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