Posted on 03/30/2017 7:10:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The head of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee warned Wednesday that Russia is interfering in the French election just as it did in the US presidential campaign last year.
Senator Richard Burr, who has access to some of the most highly classified US intelligence, said Moscow has shown a clear will and ability to disrupt elections in Western democracies.
“What we might assess was a very covert effort in 2016 in the United States, is a very overt effort, as well as covert, in Germany and France,” he told reporters. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...
From CNS News: “Burr said the committee has devoted “seven professional staff positions” to the current Russian investigation.”
The good senator /s!/ also said that there were only three staffers assigned to the Benghazi “investigation” (emphasis added), but failed to point out that they did nothing about it...
Or how the Shaw left?
Maybe maybe not but Burr isn’t to be trusted
The Russians don’t want Le Pen, they want socialists to continue destroying France. Someday, they hope to come in and pick up the pieces. They don’t want nationalists on the continent of europe.
Clint Watts 3/30/2017 On Russian active measures (8 min)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4664397/clint-watts-3302017
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