Clinton’s campaign chief urges Secret Service-style cyber protection for candidates

By Charlie Mitchell

Published February 28, 2017 3:12pm ET

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Clinton’s campaign chief urges Secret Service-style cyber protection for candidates — Robby Mook at a recent conference in San Francisco pitched his idea for providing Secret Service-style cybersecurity protection to candidates at various levels, not just the presidential contenders who are physically accompanied by Secret Service agents but left on their own to fend of cyber attacks. (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg) | Patrick T. Fallon

Amid ongoing probes into Russian cyber and other activities aimed at the 2016 elections, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign manager Robby Mook is offering a novel idea for protecting the electoral process from hacks: a new federal program to provide cybersecurity protection to candidates for all kinds of offices.

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