not sure WTF is going on here.....this was the first article on my home page this morning....I swear it was....so I thought it was today's news....have gone back for more on the article....NOTHING.....must have been some kind of computer brain fart or something
Senate Intel's newest Russia report undermines pro-Trump conspiracy theories
The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bipartisan report detailing Russian efforts to boost Donald Trump's White House bid on social media during the 2016 U.S. elections, dealing an indirect blow to a push by the president and his allies to shift focus toward claims of anti-Trump meddling by Ukraine.
The report corroborates past findings by researchers and the intelligence community that the notorious Internet Research Agency troll farm, as the committee wrote, "sought to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election by harming Hillary Clinton's chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin."
The findings mark the second installment of the committee's five-part report outlining the scope of Russian election meddling in 2016, the result of an expansive investigation that has spanned over two years and included interviews with over 200 witnesses. The committee in July unveiled the first chapter, which detailed Russian efforts to attack state elections systems and spread disinformation. The second installment focuses on the Kremlin's documented attempts to sow political discord on social media.
The report arrives as Trump and his allies have sought to publicly downplay the role the Kremlin played in the 2016 elections and amp up scrutiny of unsubstantiated theories that Ukraine may have sought to interfere to undermine the president's candidacy. Some
Ukrainian officials have been linked to anti-Trump messaging going into the 2016 election, but there's no evidence of collusion between Ukraine and U.S. Democrats, as Trump and some of his associates have proposed.
Such claims have played a key role in the House's rapidly unfolding impeachment inquiry, which centers on Trump's efforts to have Ukraine investigate 2020 Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. Attorney General William Barr is also embarked on a
probe into the origins of the Robert Mueller-led inquiry into Russian meddling, suggesting it may have been politically motivated rather than a sincere attempt to confront an actual threat.
The report dispenses with deflections, however, and reiterates the widely held consensus that Russia launched a coordinated attack on the integrity of the 2016 election. It comes with the sign-off of the full Senate Intelligence Committee, including members like Trump-friendly Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), who have taken to the press to explain the president's questioning of Russian meddling and apparent invitations to Ukraine and China to investigate Biden as either jokes or legitimate fields of inquiry.
The findings mark the second installment of the committee's five-part report outlining the scope of Russian election meddling in 2016.
www.politico.com
Mueller Was Right: Read The New Senate Report On Russian ...
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Aug 01, 2019 · The Mueller
Report noted the many instances of
Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. The US
Senate just released a
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mcconnell...
“It was Barack
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meddling with Republicans, but Mitch
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McConnell owes the country a fuller explanation on Russian ...
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McConnell owes the country a fuller explanation on
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Denis McDonough: McConnell 'watered down' Russia warning in 2016
WASHINGTON — Former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “watered down” a warning about Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election and defended the Obama administration’s response to foreign meddling in the campaign.
The language in a
September 2016 letter from congressional leaders to state election officials was drastically softened at McConnell's urging, McDonough said in an exclusive interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press."
The warning, written to the National Association of State Election Directors, was signed by the four congressional leaders — McConnell, then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi — and it told states to “take full advantage of the robust public and private sector resources available to them to ensure that their network infrastructure is secure from attack.”
“The president asked the four leaders in a bipartisan meeting in the Oval Office to join him in asking the states to work with us on this question,” McDonough said. “It took over three weeks to get that statement worked out. It was dramatically watered down."
Asked if it was watered down at the insistence of McConnell and only McConnell, McDonough responded, “yes.”
The New York Times reported last year that McConnell had questioned the intelligence on election interference and agreed to a softer version of the letter that spoke of “malefactors” to be aware of but did not specifically mention Russia.
McConnell’s team on Sunday responded by pointing to an
op-ed in The Washington Post by McDonough last summer where he called the letter “ultimately successful.”
“The White House asked for a letter about election security — not Russia,” McConnell spokesman David Popp wrote in an email. “And McDonough said he even asked DEMOCRATS not to do a public statement about Russia during this same time period. Give me a break.”
McDonough, who served as White House chief of staff throughout the Obama administration's second term, alleged Sunday that they “continue to see to this day” the same lack of urgency from Republican leadership in Congress on the issue that they saw in 2016.
Former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough on Sunday said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “watered down” a warning about Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.
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‘Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes G.O.P ...
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moscow-mitch-mcconnell.html
Jul 30, 2019 · ‘
Moscow Mitch’ Tag Enrages McConnell and Squeezes G.O.P. on Election Security Senator
Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, is usually impervious to criticism. But “
Moscow Mitch…
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Mitch McConnell has earned the name, ‘
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