New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- WASHINGTON - When Donald Trump convened his first televised Cabinet meeting of the summer at Camp David, aides expected a rehearsed display of executive confidence. What the room got instead was a campaign speech. Told that Iranian-linked hackers had struck 30 water treatment plants in Minnesota, the President waved the intelligence aside. "I think I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent," Trump said to his assembled secretaries. "Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

The dismissal landed as the FBI was actively coordinating an investigation linking the breaches to CyberAv3ngers, an Iran-controlled hacker collective that US federal prosecutors previously indicted for targeting...