intelligence agency that handles matters like this and lots else. it's called the defense intelligence agency, the d.i.a. apparently, they were warning about it as early as 2004. then, sometime after 2009, the threat analysis center at the d.i.a. started circulating within the pentagon the assessment that this software was a tool of the russian government. then, as early as 2012, d.i.a. started sharing that analysis, that warning about the software, they started sharing that not just within various acquisition programs in the pentagon, they started sharing that warning with other agencies in the u.s. government, as well. and then, this ends up being important, in 2013, the d.i.a., the defense intelligence agency, they did a full-blown report on the software being linked to russia intel. according to reporting, in 2013, the d.i.a. issued a pentagon-wide threat assessment