Going Hot? Russia ‘Prepped the Battlefield’ in US Long Ago, Officials Say

U.S. should prepare for shocks like Pearl Harbor or 9/11, ex-CIA official warns

The lights were blinking off.

As raucous pro- and anti-Trump crowds flooded into Washington for the presidential inauguration in Jan. 2017 , the D.C. police department’s citywide surveillance cameras stopped recording. Within seconds, 123 of its 178 surveillance cameras, including those monitoring the streets around the White House and the headquarters o…