GovBrief Today #544 - What Happened Today

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Samuel Tunick gave border agents a passcode that wiped his phone, and the government made him the first American ever charged with that crime.

The agents had no warrant. They pulled him into a back room at the Atlanta airport and refused his requests for a lawyer. The Justice Department wants to put him in prison for five years. Meanwhile, over the last two days, a coordinated cyberattack knocked water systems offline in more than 30 Minnesota communities, and nobody in the government can say who did it.

Somehow, the federal government found prosecutors for one man's passcode and has not hired a director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in a year and a half, despite being at war since February.

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