Democratic lawmakers are calling for an FBI briefing on what they suspect are foreign interference efforts aimed at Congress. And Joe Biden says a Republican senator investigating him could be receiving disinformation originating in Russia.
, U.S. investigators have found, including stealing confidential material and releasing it to embarrass their targets; attempting to compromise elections infrastructure with cyberattacks; and amplifying discord and spreading disinformation online.
In the past, they've also fabricated evidence to sow doubt about the inner workings of political life, including in chapters about which little remains confirmed. In one example in 2016, U.S. intelligence investigators apparentlytying then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch to false assurances made to Hillary Clinton's campaign about the FBI email investigation.
The full story remains unknown; in his memoir, former FBI Director James Comey alluded to the anecdote but said it remained too secret for him to reveal in detail.This opacity creates an opportunity — and dilemma — for politicians wielding election interference as an issue. The fundamental intelligence about what American spies are hearing and learning seldom becomes public.
What Democrats heard in a briefing earlier this year was that the intelligence community has assessed that Russia wants to support Trump over Biden in the 2020 race, as it supported him over Clinton.
"Election officials have done all this on top of continuing efforts to ensure that this country's elections are secure from malicious actors who seek to attack voting infrastructure and spread disinformation," Blunt said."All of these actions have been taken to ensure that every voter can cast their ballot safely and securely in this year's election.
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