The Hill: FBI director says Russian influence efforts are ‘very active’
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday described Russian malign influence efforts to sow discord among the American public as “very active.”
Wray was asked to directly respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denials of Russian interference in the 2016 election during an appearance as the Aspen Security Forum. Wray described the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russian meddling as sound, adding that Moscow “continues to engage in malign influence operations to this day.”
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Update #1: FBI Director Christopher Wray reaffirms Russia continues to try to meddle in U.S. elections (CBS)
Update #2: FBI director: Russia ‘continues to engage in malign influence operations’ against U.S. (Politico)
Update #3: FBI boss Wray says Russia engaging in 'malign influence operations,' calls Mueller a 'straight shooter' (FOX News)
WNU Editor: FBI Director Wray also said this ....
.... "We haven’t yet seen an effort to target specific election infrastructure this time but certainly other efforts – what I would call ‘malign influence operations’ – are very active,"
According to the FBI Director the process on election day (i.e. the election infrastructure) is not being impacted, it is the message that Russia is promoting that is causing problems. So exposing the Democrat Party's plan to fix the primary for Hillary Clinton is a "malign influence operations" .... not the fact that the Democrat Party was fixing its primary process. And they say the Russians are sowing doubts in the U.S. election process?!?!?!
