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'The United States is under attack': Intel chiefs say Russia targets midterm election
Yahoo News ^ | February 13th, 2018 | Dylan Stableford

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; devinnunes; fisa; rodrosenstein; russia
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To: Mariner
At least they found the Russian Spy from the 2016 election.


61 posted on 02/13/2018 12:09:15 PM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

bttt


62 posted on 02/13/2018 12:12:17 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Mariner

Setting the narrative early for when Dems get shellacked once again come November?


63 posted on 02/13/2018 12:15:26 PM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: Mariner

Russian interference in election is far less than the amount of money the Saudis have dumped into the US political scene. PERIOD


64 posted on 02/13/2018 12:17:32 PM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: mplc51

Lots of bald heads. They must be very smart.


65 posted on 02/13/2018 12:24:10 PM PST by Dennis M.
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To: Mariner

Coats is another Deep Stater/NeoCon. Trump picking him as DNI was another bad appointment.


66 posted on 02/13/2018 12:28:57 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Mariner

Trump is surrounded by NeoCons.


67 posted on 02/13/2018 12:30:12 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Mariner

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.


68 posted on 02/13/2018 12:44:12 PM PST by Revel
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To: Mariner

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!!


69 posted on 02/13/2018 1:16:11 PM PST by euram
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To: Mariner

Ok... I have a plan to thwart the red menace.... first paper ballots... second....voter Id.. third: ballots must be notarized !!!!


70 posted on 02/13/2018 1:29:40 PM PST by rebelskid
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To: Mariner
Maybe we should go back to paper ballots so only democrats can interfere with our elections.
71 posted on 02/13/2018 1:32:31 PM PST by McGruff (#ObamaGate)
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To: Mariner

Aren’t the Dems the champions of no borders? So what if the Russians put in their two cents?


72 posted on 02/13/2018 1:33:52 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Mariner

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.??


73 posted on 02/13/2018 1:37:40 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Mariner; mplc51; Behind the Blue Wall; beergarden; Paladin2; brownsfan; z3n; 1Old Pro; Rurudyne; ...
DHS Statement On NBC News Coverage Of Election Hacking

"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

74 posted on 02/13/2018 2:12:35 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Mariner

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.


75 posted on 02/13/2018 3:22:18 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

I’ve been thinking the same the last 2 years. Naval, army intelligence might just be good enough.


76 posted on 02/13/2018 3:22:53 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: Mariner

Simple low cost solution...Manual voting and counting! Russian Hack-Proof!! Only problem is not Democrat hack-proof


77 posted on 02/13/2018 3:27:57 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Mariner

“” “” 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.


78 posted on 02/13/2018 4:39:36 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: mplc51
How????????????????????

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...

79 posted on 02/13/2018 4:57:28 PM PST by Iscool
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To: euram; Liz; GOPJ; Impy; NFHale; DoughtyOne; Trumpisourlastchance
I suspect this is just another democrat excuse in the making.

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.

80 posted on 02/15/2018 9:03:31 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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