Intel agencies to brief officials from all 50 stat

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Intel agencies to brief officials from all 50 states on election threats

Source: The Hill

Top U.S. intelligence agencies will host a briefing for election officials from all 50 states starting Friday on possible election threats from foreign adversaries, amid warnings from officials this week that Russia aims to interfere in the 2018 midterm elections.

The classified briefing on Friday and Sunday, hosted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, aims to educate the officials on possible threats to election infrastructure.

"The briefings will focus on increasing awareness of foreign adversary intent and capabilities against the states’ election infrastructure, as well as a discussion of threat mitigation efforts," the ODNI said in a statement.

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, along with FBI Director Christopher Wray and CIA Director Mike Pompeo testified before Congress this week that the agencies are expecting election interference from Russia similar to its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3...n-election

2. That's good to know, but....

Election officials from about 30 of those states would prefer the Putin-inspired results to the real ones, and are unlikely to take measures that will show the real results as opposed to the ones they want.

For all their feigned "anti-kommanism," the Republicans are the worst of Stalinists. They remind me of French Communist boss Georges Marchais (a rich man who lived in a villa, by the way).

When asked if he and his party, if elected, would cede power if they were to lose a subsequent vote, his answer was, "why would anyone ever want to vote us out?" That accurately sums up the Republican attitude toward elections in the USA.

There's a reason that ALL efforts at suppressing voting rights in the last 20 years come from Republicans.

3. State goppers will see this as continuing education

Thanks for the hints, feds!

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