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Intel hearing: Cyber Expert "Commander-in-Chief used Russian active measures..against his opponents"
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[font size="3"]In testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, cyber expert Clint Watts testified that Trump "used Russian active measures" against his political opponents over the course of the campaign.[/font]
Intel hearing bombshell: Cyber expert says Commander-in-Chief used Russian active measures
against his opponents
In testimony at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on Russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 election, cyber expert Clint Watts testified that Trump "used Russian active measures" against his political opponents over the course of the campaign.
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Cyber expert Clint Watts, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee as it investigates Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, told the panel that Donald Trump used Russian active measures against his opponents during the campaign.
Watts is currently a Robert Fox Fellow for the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at George Washington University. He served as a U.S. Army infantry officer, a FBI Special Agent on a Joint Terrorism Task Force, and as a consultant to the FBIs Counter Terrorism Division and National Security Branch.
Active measures, or aktivniye meropriyatiya, is a Russian technique dating back to the days of the KGB and the Cold War of dispensing disinformation and propaganda in order to influence events within another country, particularly the United States.
link to Clint Watts' testimony before the House Intelligence committee
[blockquote style="border:solid 1px #000000;padding: 11px;"] WATTS: "The answer is very simple and its what nobody is really saying in this room. Which is, part of the reason active measures have worked in this U.S. election is because the Commander-in-Chief has used Russian active measures at time, against his opponents. On 14 August 2016, his campaign chairman, after a debunked
LANKFORD: When you say his, whos his?
WATTS: Paul Manafort
LANKFORD: Okay.
WATTS: cited the fake Incirlik story as a terrorist attack on CNN, and he used it as a talking point. On 11 October, President Trump stood on a stage and cited a what appears to be a fake news story from Sputnik News that disappeared from the Internet. He denies the intel from the United States about Russia. He claims that the election could be rigged. That was the number one theme pushed by RT, Sputnik News, white outlets, all the way up until the election. Hes made claims of voter fraud, that President Obamas not a citizen, that, you know, Congressman Cruz is not a citizen.
So, part of the reason active measures works, and it does today in terms of Trump Tower being wiretapped is because they parrot the same line."
The investigation is proceeding despite Republican attempts at sabotage, and the evidence of Russian meddling, while also in contact with the Trump team continues to pile up. It is vital for Americans to know what happened to their election, and what Donald Trumps role in Vladimir Putins attack was.
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Intel hearing: Cyber Expert "Commander-in-Chief used Russian active measures..against his opponents" (Original Post)
Bill USA
Mar 2017
OP
MBS
(9,688 posts)1. Here's the video:
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)2. the watts testiminony & video clip in OP starts at 1hr 34 min, but the entire 2.5 hrs of testimony
is very interesting.
MBS
(9,688 posts)3. Thanks for giving that extra information! n/t
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)4. Kick.