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“ This has got to be about defending a constitutional process , not a party . ” Last week , two California Democrats who specialize in intelligence issues , Representative Adam B. Schiff and Senator Dianne Feinstein , sent Mr. Obama a letter urging him to make public the intelligence assessments on the Democratic National Committee hacking . Mr. Obama often says the world of cyberconflict is still “ the Wild West . ” There are no treatiesgovernment.agreements.na, no international laws , just a patchwork set of emerging “ norms ” of what constitutes acceptable behavior . For example , Mr. Obama has pressed President Xi Jinping of China to work with the United States and other nations to develop rules about the theft of intellectual property , and about not interfering with a nation ’s efforts to bring attacked systems back online . Attacking another nation ’s power grid in peacetime is considered out of bounds .