Posted on 02/13/2018 10:51:10 AM PST by Mariner
The heads of six top U.S. intelligence agencies said on Tuesday that Russian interference in American democracy has not diminished since the 2016 presidential race and is continuing in advance of this year’s midterms.
During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., the directors of CIA, FBI, National Intelligence, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency were asked to reaffirm their view that Moscow’s election meddling has continued since the election of President Trump. They did so unanimously.
“Frankly, the United States is under attack,” Dan Coats, the director of National Intelligence, said at the start of Tuesday’s hearing. “Under attack by entities that are using cyber to penetrate virtually every major action that takes place in the United States.”
“Influence operations, especially through cyber means, will remain a significant threat to U.S. interests,” Coats continued. “Russia probably will be the most capable and aggressive source of this threat in 2018.”
The director warned that the Kremlin will continue to use “sympathetic” spokesmen to advance its disinformation agenda, pushing propaganda, social media, “false-flag personas” and other means of influence “to try to exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States.”
“There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past operations as successful,” Coats added.
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bttt
Setting the narrative early for when Dems get shellacked once again come November?
Russian interference in election is far less than the amount of money the Saudis have dumped into the US political scene. PERIOD
Lots of bald heads. They must be very smart.
Coats is another Deep Stater/NeoCon. Trump picking him as DNI was another bad appointment.
Trump is surrounded by NeoCons.
Even if this is true then it is easy to fix. Go back to totally non-electronic means of voting. Non digital means of transferring vote totals to the state. And All state computers involved in voting cannot be connected to the internet.
I suspect this is just another democrat excuse in the making. If the election doesn’t turn into a “blue wave” they’ll trot this out, because it has proven to be quiet effective. How could anyone not for the dems, it must be those Russians again!!
Ok... I have a plan to thwart the red menace.... first paper ballots... second....voter Id.. third: ballots must be notarized !!!!
Aren’t the Dems the champions of no borders? So what if the Russians put in their two cents?
Are any of these quislings part of the 17 Intelligence Agencies that swore up and down Russia Hacked the Election but have been unable to provide even a scintilla of proof.??
"we have no evidence – old or new - that any votes in the 2016 elections were manipulated by Russian hackers. NBC News continues to falsely report my recent comments on attempted election hacking"
- Jeanette Manfra from the Department of Homeland security
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2018/02/12/dhs-statement-nbc-news-coverage-election-hacking
Can you post in brackets next to Yahoo news, CNN and such as "Questionable news please"
Thank you
Bull - cough - shit. I am to believe the Deep State running CIA, or the lying sack of shits that run the FBI, or the lying spying NSA? I don’t trust those agencies. I would trust a used car salesman more than them, and that is an insult to used car salesmen.
I’ve been thinking the same the last 2 years. Naval, army intelligence might just be good enough.
Simple low cost solution...Manual voting and counting! Russian Hack-Proof!! Only problem is not Democrat hack-proof
“” “” And US Intelligence continues to assess the dissemination of information as a “threat to US interests”. And this in the biggest open market of ideas the world has ever known.”” “”
That’s one step before Stalinism. Surprisingly, ‘US Intelligence’ defends its right to do so in other countries citing freedom of speech and press.
Fake news reports...Fake information...Just like the fake dossier...But that wasn't a Russia operation...That was an Obama operation...
It is being claimed that the reason Trump won is because Russian media was responsible for negative advertising about the Democrat party and influenced stupid Americans to vote for Trump...
At the same time they want us to believe that Trump should be impeached because of a Russia/Putin sourced dossier...
We expect this kind of BS from Dem and R politicians. For Pompeo, Coats, and Wray to back Hillary's excuses without proof is a disturbing.
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