Breaking news: A new U.S. intelligence report just released (March
16) – here
from CNBC has this headline:
“Russia and Iran tried to interfere with 2020 election, U.S.
intelligence agencies say”
According to the
report: “Russian President Vladimir
Putin authorized influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's
candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting former President Trump,
undermining public confidence in the electoral process, and exacerbating
sociopolitical divisions in the U.S.”
Also, according to
the report: “Iran carried out a
multi-pronged covert influence campaign intended to undercut former President
Trump's reelection prospects though without directly promoting his rivals to undermine
public confidence in the electoral process and US institutions, and sow
division and exacerbate societal tensions in the U.S.”
Noteworthy: Intelligence experts also found that China, which was previously thought to be expanding its U.S. influence
efforts, did not deploy operations to affect the outcome of the
Trump-Biden election.
Those two assessments come from the U.S. intelligence
community (IC), each of which were delivered with “high confidence.”
Both were in a declassified report released through the O/DNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence which oversees all 16 intelligence agencies and their activities – see chart above).
The report found
that there were no indications that foreign actors attempted to alter voter
registration, ballots, or vote tabulation in the 2020 U.S. elections saying in
part: “We assess that it would be
difficult for a foreign actor to manipulate election processes at scale without
detection by intelligence collection on the actors themselves, through physical
and cybersecurity monitoring around voting systems across the country, or in
post-election audits.”
My 2 cents: CNBC concludes the article with this statement that I
totally agree with: “This is breaking
news. Please check back for updates.”
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