Once again, Putin attempted to influence election - spread misinformation about our US president
Today in The New York Times;In response to:
Putin authorized extensive election influence campaign, intelligence report says.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized election interference operations that aimed to benefit former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.
The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.
“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions in a consistent manner,” the report said.
The declassified report represented the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote. Besides Russia, Iran and other countries sought to influence the election, the report said. China considered efforts to influence the presidential vote, but ultimately concluded that any such operation would fail and most likely backfire, intelligence officials concluded.
A companion report by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security also rejected false allegations promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies in the weeks after the election that Venezuela or other foreign countries defrauded the election.
The reports, compiled by career officials, amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump, his allies and some of his top administration officials. They categorically dismissed allegations of foreign-fed voter fraud, cast doubt on Republican accusations of Chinese intervention on behalf of Democrats and undermined the allegations that Mr. Trump and his allies spread about the Biden family’s work in Ukraine.
The report also found that there were no efforts by Russia or other countries to change ballots themselves, unlike in 2016. Efforts by Russian hackers to probe state and local networks were unrelated to efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential vote.
Some of the information in the intelligence report was released in the months leading up to the election, reflecting an effort by the intelligence community to release more information about foreign operations during the campaign season after its reluctance to do so in 2016 helped misinformation spread.
— Julian E. Barnes
Putin authorized extensive election influence campaign, intelligence report says.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized election interference operations that aimed to benefit former President Donald J. Trump’s campaign.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald J. Trump, according to a declassified intelligence report released Tuesday.
The report did not name those people but seemed to be a reference to the work of Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, who relentlessly pushed allegations of corruption about Mr. Biden and his family involving Ukraine.
“Russian state and proxy actors who all serve the Kremlin’s interests worked to affect U.S. public perceptions in a consistent manner,” the report said.
The declassified report represented the most comprehensive intelligence assessment of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote. Besides Russia, Iran and other countries sought to influence the election, the report said. China considered efforts to influence the presidential vote, but ultimately concluded that any such operation would fail and most likely backfire, intelligence officials concluded.
A companion report by the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security also rejected false allegations promoted by Mr. Trump’s allies in the weeks after the election that Venezuela or other foreign countries defrauded the election.
The reports, compiled by career officials, amounted to a repudiation of Mr. Trump, his allies and some of his top administration officials. They categorically dismissed allegations of foreign-fed voter fraud, cast doubt on Republican accusations of Chinese intervention on behalf of Democrats and undermined the allegations that Mr. Trump and his allies spread about the Biden family’s work in Ukraine.
The report also found that there were no efforts by Russia or other countries to change ballots themselves, unlike in 2016. Efforts by Russian hackers to probe state and local networks were unrelated to efforts by Moscow to influence the presidential vote.
Some of the information in the intelligence report was released in the months leading up to the election, reflecting an effort by the intelligence community to release more information about foreign operations during the campaign season after its reluctance to do so in 2016 helped misinformation spread.
— Julian E. Barnes
Interesting, how those who claim to "think for themselves" are actually the ones who
are most easily misled to think, as other notorious negative influencers want them to think. At some point it is crucial to actually think, whether you are making America great by your actions, or quite the opposite. It's time to think things through, rather than to be continually misled by having your emotions manipulated. It's time to face reality and change for the better.
Due to (deleted) comments which attempted to turn this intelligence report summary into a political discussion, I have blocked comments. So, feel free to inform yourself of the intelligence findings and the news story about it. In my comments I even included a link directly to the declassified intelligence report so you can "read it for yourself".
Comments (2)
It has to do with international deception, not politics, nor political parties.
Indeed, no political parties were mentioned.
The central theme is that there are those who BELIEVE they are independently thinking,
when in reality they are being misled by foreign influencers and that it is time to change, unless they are on the side of corruption and notorious negative influencers like Vladimir Putin. Perhaps some of the guilty wish to continue spreading misinformation and/or silencing the truth by their own deception. However, despite implications otherwise, this is not a political blog.
Again, not political (a.k.a. apolotical).