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February 20, 2020 10:49 pm
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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/20/21146191/russia-election-meddling-2020-hack-trump-intelligence
Russia is meddling in 2020 campaign to help Trump, intelligence officials say
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Russia is already interfering in the 2020 campaign to help President Donald Trump toward reelection, according to a briefing given to the bipartisan House Intelligence Committee last week. The briefing, as reported in paired articles from The Washington Post and The New York Times, suggests many of the same tactics used in 2016 could be employed in the months to come, including troll campaigns and targeted hacking attempts.
The day after the briefing was given, President Trump abruptly replaced his acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, in what the Post describes as a direct response to the briefing. The Post is less clear on the contents of the briefing, but the Times reports from five different sources that the...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/20/21146191/russia-election-meddling-2020-hack-trump-intelligence
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