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SENATE PANEL AFFIRMS RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE

Posted by Jim on August 19, 2020

A bipartisan report released Tuesday by the Republican-controlled Senate Intelligence Committee reaffirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help President Trump and revealed new details about Russian links to the Trump campaign.
The nearly 1,000-page report did not conclude that the campaign engaged in a coordinated conspiracy with the Russian government. But it found that a longtime associate of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, was a Russian intelligence officer who might have been involved in efforts to steal and disseminate Democratic emails.
The report lands as Russia and other countries attempt to influence another U.S. election. “The Russians are fully aware that they can’t play the 2016 playbook in 2020,” said our colleague David Sanger. But from spreading disinformation about the pandemic to inflaming culture-war issues, “new routes to interference are endless.”
Find eight takeaways from the report here.

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