Rep Joe Kennedy proposes center dedicated to ending Russian hacks

Joe Kennedy is the grandson of the great Bobby Kennedy, and reminds me more of him every day. An earnest, passionate speaker, he was nicknamed "Milkman" at Stanford because he didn't drink; and after graduation he joined the Peace Corps before entering Harvard Law.


http://thehill.com/homenews/house/338008-dem-rep-proposes-center-dedicated-to-ending-russian-hacks

Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-Mass.) introduced legislation on Thursday to create a response center to combat Russian cyber attacks amid ongoing probes into Moscow's interference in last year's election.

Dubbed the National Russian Threat Response Center, the new initiative would be responsible for examining information relevant to Russia’s online aggression and seek to close gaps in intelligence collected about the Kremlin.

“Russia’s attack on our election was not guided by party affiliation but instead by a deep desire to weaken trust in our institutions and shake the very foundation of our democracy,” Kennedy said in a statement.

The idea resembles the National Counterterrorism Center and would fall under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Representatives from the CIA, in addition to the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Homeland Security, State and Justice, would be part of the center.

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Some background on him from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kennedy_III

After graduating from the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Kennedy along with his brother enrolled in Stanford University, where he majored in management science and engineering. Kennedy's reputation as a teetotaler earned him the college nickname "Milkman", as his teammates on the club lacrosse team would jocularly order him glasses of milk at bars.[3][5] While at Stanford, Kennedy roomed with future NBA player Jason Collins.[6]

After graduating in 2003, Kennedy joined the Peace Corps; a fluent speaker of Spanish, he worked in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2006, helping local tour guides in the 27 Charcos reserve in the Río Damajagua Park. He reorganized the group with some outside backing, directing the guides to rebuild parts of the park and develop skills to make the operation more attractive to tourists.[3][5] "We basically created a union," said Kennedy, who reported that the group's efforts won higher wages for employees while improving revenue for the tour companies.[7] According to a press release, his other activities in the Peace Corps included "stints as an Anti-Poverty Consultant for the Office of the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste and a Research Analyst for the United Nations Development Program."[8]

Entry into law and politics

In April 2006, Kennedy returned to Massachusetts, where he and his brother co-chaired Ted Kennedy's re-election campaign. That fall, Kennedy enrolled in Harvard Law School.[3] While in school, Kennedy worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, providing legal aid to low-income tenants with foreclosure cases in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Kennedy worked as a technical editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal, on a staff with his classmate and future wife, Lauren Anne Birchfield.[3] In 2007 he and Birchfield co-founded Picture This: Justice and Power, an after-school program for youths in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood.[9][10] He began an internship at the Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office in 2008.[8]

After receiving his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 2009, Kennedy was hired at the Cape and Islands Office as an assistant district attorney (DA). He considered running for the Cape-based U.S. House seat held by retiring Rep. Bill Delahunt in early 2010, but decided against it.[11] In September 2011, he joined the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, also as an assistant DA.[12] He resigned several months later, in preparation for the announcement that he would seek political office.[13]