Russia is going to attack our next election the Trump administration may not even try to stop it
The Russians are coming for our elections to disrupt them to discredit them and even to affect their outcome they ll be coming in
2018 and in
2020 the trouble is that even if we figure out what they were up to our own
government
May be unable or unwilling to stop it
That s the conclusion one has to come to upon reading reports like this new one from a tremendous Ellen
Nakashima and Greg Jaffe which describes how powerless the federal government has been and continues
To be in the face of an ongoing war that Vladimir Putin is waging against us democracy
It was hard enough to resist when the executive branch wanted to resist it
Who knows how hard it will become as president Trump feels more politically threatened by upcoming elections and Robert s Mueller s investigation
into Russian meddling in
2016 this new report shows how the Russian effort last year included not only hacking into
Democratic email systems in the use of an army of social media BOTS, but also the creation of articles pitched to left-leaning websites
Which were used to attack Hillary Clinton and promote WikiLeaks?
While it was going on the government was all but paralyzed the events surrounding the FBI s norther night
Investigation follow a pattern that repeated for years as the Russian threat was building US intelligence and law enforcement
Agencies saw some warning signs of Russian meddling in Europe and later in the United States
But never fully grasped the breath of the Kremlin s ambitions
Top US policymakers didn t appreciate the dangers then scrambled to draw up options to fight back in
the end big plans died of internal
Disagreement a fear of making matters worse or a misguided belief in the resilience of American society and its democratic institutions
When previously unreported order a sweeping presidential finding to combat global cyber threats prompted u.s.
Spy agencies to plan a half dozen specific operations to counter the Russian threat
But when a year after those instructions were given the Trump White House remains divided over whether to act
intelligence officials said as
former acting CIA director Michael Morel and former House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers note in this op-ed
Russian cyber warfare effort - eatin tea stop after
2016 of later covert social media strategies have involved attacking the FBI
going after Republican politicians
Who are critical of President drum and even urging a boycott of Keurig when it pulled its advertising from Sean Hannity s show?
But it s not as simple as promoting President Trump in the GOP
Most experts believe Vladimir Putin s motives are more complex than that and involve sowing discord and confusion
That destabilizes our system the danger becomes
particularly acute during election season
There are three fundamental questions to ask about this threat do we know what they redoing if?
We know what they redoing do we know how to fight it, and if we know how to fight it
Do we have the will to do so at various times the answer to all three has been no
But let us say that sometime in 2018 or even more likely in
2020 intelligence agencies and private analysts conclude that Russia is engaging in an
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