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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Ron Wyden Says Evidence of Ongoing Russian Election Meddling Is Being Covered Up
https://www.motherjones.com/2020-elections/2020/08/senate-report-ron-wyden/The Senate Intelligence Committee released its fifth and final volume in its years long counterintelligence investigation on Tuesday, offering new detail and reporting on connections between President Donald Trumps 2016 campaign and the Russian hack-and-leak operation aimed at Hillary Clinton. But several of the Democratic members of the committee, most notably Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, say the report blocks the American public from a key piece information: what the Russians are doing right now to intervene in the 2020 election to help Trump.
The report includes a wealth of extremely troubling new revelations about the counterintelligence threat posed by Donald Trump and his campaign, Wyden said in a standalone statement included at the end of the report. However, Wyden added, a lot of the new information remains needlessly classified in the report, including redacted information that is directly relevant to Russias interference in the 2020 election.
Wyden, who has developed a reputation for presciently and publicly flagging major intelligence issues without revealing classified information, was backed up in another statement attached to the report he co-authored with Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich, Dianne Feinstein, Kamala Harris, and Michael Bennet. The group noted that the value of the committees extensive investigation is not purely historical, not only because the lessons of Russias interference remain valuable, but also becauseand as Trumps own intelligence officials assertRussia is actively interfering again in the 2020 US election to assist Donald Trump, and some of the Presidents associates are amplifying those efforts.
While the US intelligence community and law enforcement officialssome of whom have access to some of the redacted informationrepeatedly say theyve learned the lessons of 2016, the vast majority of that information will remain hidden not only to citizens, but to state and local election officials who are on the frontline of defense against what the US government says are active influence and interference operations being carried out by some of the worlds most sophisticated intelligence agencies.
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Sen. Ron Wyden Says Evidence of Ongoing Russian Election Meddling Is Being Covered Up (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Looking forward to seeing what a President Biden might have in mind for the Russian scum
BannonsLiver
Aug 2020
#2
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)1. Can we ever free ourselves from this corruption?
BannonsLiver
(16,398 posts)2. Looking forward to seeing what a President Biden might have in mind for the Russian scum