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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSchiff: "I'm not particularly confident we can stop another foreign interference campaign in 2020."
Link to tweet
gordianot
(15,244 posts)I give it a week.
triron
(22,020 posts)gordianot
(15,244 posts)Like a sense of urgency with follow up. The oxygen is used up by so much crisis. The election seems to be the only way out of this mess.
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)Funds were allocated, weren't they, but never spent? Trump doesn't want a secure election. He can play it either way. People should have listened when Cohen said, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. And this is why I agreed to appear before you today."
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/27/michael-cohen-i-fear-trump-wont-give-up-the-white-house-if-he-loses-in-2020.html
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)Just because the country has done ab-so-fucking-lutely nothing to stop Russia from doing exactly what it did in 2016?
Not blaming Schiff, it isn't his fault the GOP are traitors, but that is kind of a braindead statement. I'd rather see him say "The GOP has done nothing to help us secure our election system and because of that I fully expect Russia to interfere again."
Russia is ALREADY interfering with the "Kamala Harris isn't actually black" fake news that their bots and trolls were pumping out after the first Dem debate.
triron
(22,020 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)We can't. The sh't has already started on fakebook.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Please scream from the roof of the Senate and House.
Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)NOTHING to prevent it.
While the issue of Russian collusion is very clearly politically charged, concerns about election security and foreign interference have historically been more bipartisan. As Mitch McConnell has made clear, however, thats no longer the case.
Although several Republican-controlled Senate committees are still trying to address potential meddling by foreign adversaries the Judiciary Committee approved two election security bills last week the Senate majority leader now says he wont even bring election security bills up for a vote. Its a position McConnell took last year, and one hes standing by as pressure has ramped up to consider reinforcing US defenses ahead of 2020.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/5/21/18629428/election-security-mitch-mcconnell-donald-trump-russia
His Republican colleagues in the Senate want to do something. Thats why some of the most conservative members of his caucus are working with Democrats to improve the nations election security.
One proposal, according to The New York Times, would require internet companies like Facebook to disclose the purchasers of political ads. Another, devised by Senators Marco Rubio of Florida and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, would impose mandatory sanctions on anyone who attacks an American election. Yet another, the brainchild of Senators James Lankford of Oklahoma and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, would codify cyber information-sharing initiatives between federal intelligence services and state election officials.
House Democrats have already introduced legislation to bolster election security and would most likely work with the Senate to put together a compromise proposal should a bill pass that chamber. But McConnell refuses to consider any legislation on election security during this congressional term. For the Senate majority leader, the problem has already been solved, and this rare show of bipartisan cooperation doesnt matter. I think the majority leader is of the view that this debate reaches no conclusion, Roy Blunt of Missouri, a McConnell ally, said.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/opinion/mitch-mcconnell-russian-interference.amp.html
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)and the CIA didn't even know this!!!! Microsoft did but not our govt.
"Schiff made the comment in an interview at the Aspen Security Forum with NBCs Kristen Welker, after she asked how confident he was in the U.S. governments ability to deter future election interference."
Im not particularly confident, he said. I think back a year ago to this conference, when one of the representatives of Microsoft was on a panel and revealed that two or three Senate campaigns had been the target of spear-phishing attempts by an actor that appeared to be the same Fancy Bear actor, the same Russian GRU unit, that brought us the intervention in the 2016 election. Well, that was the first time I was hearing that. That should not be the first time the Intelligence chair is hearing that. And I went back to D.C. and I talked to my contacts at NSA and CIA and I said, Did you know this? And they did not. And I said, This should not be the first time youre hearing this. And that told me as a matter of quality control that something is broken here. Either it didnt get communicated to the right place by Microsoft or it did and it was stovepiped, or whatever. But we need to find out what happened.
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"Schiff learned of the targeting from Tom Burt, Microsofts vice president of customer security and trust. Burt made the comment at the Aspen security forum in 2018, and did not name the campaigns the Russians had targeted. The Daily Beast later revealed that one target was then-Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat in a tight race. McCaskill went on to lose her re-election."
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-adam-schiff-cia-learned-of-russian-hackers-targeting-senate-candidates-from-conference
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)that's our fault.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)Impeachment hearings on those responsible and the beneficiaries of said "interference".