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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The President is Commander in Chief of Military, so for a balance, the Intel Agencies are a balance to that, or were! Now it appears O drama corrupted the Intel Community.
There should be a study on this. Homeland Security was to become the place that ALL INTEL AGENCIES shared info, as they did NOT do that on their own. 9/11 could have been stopped... if each had shared the info they had, separate from others! That was one of original purposes of having a Homeland Sec Agency.
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