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Here we go again — except this time Intel is saying it out-loud:
US intelligence officials have presented information to lawmakers and presidential campaigns indicating Russia is behind an ongoing disinformation push targeting former Vice President and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Russia is once again interfering in the U.S. election, trying to covertly undermine Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment released on Friday.
Moscow's effort involves a "range of measures," according to the intelligence assessment, which was released by the White House office of the Director of National Intelligence. Among them are the spread of claims about corruption in Ukraine, the report says. President Trump and his Republican allies have seized on some of those same Ukraine-related allegations in an attempt to harm Biden's candidacy.
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CNN — 8/7/20
Here’s another breaking new snippet on the Russian interference, already in action he in the US:
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"We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia 'establishment,' "the statement said.
"Pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption -- including through publicizing leaked phone calls -- to undermine former Vice President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian television," Evanina added.
LA Times — 8/7/20
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Wisconsin senator Johnson has been in the news lately for being a suspected “conduit” for the Russian Disinformation. With today’s news, those Moscow-Ron suspicions have now been confirmed.
The Biden campaign is NOT sitting idly by — while the GOP Senate does Putin’s “active-measures” work for him ...
Biden campaign goes on offensive against Sen. Ron Johnson’s Burisma probe
NBC News — Updated 8/7/20
Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Tuesday launched a highly personal broadside at Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, for pushing forward a committee inquiry into the presumptive Democratic nominee's past dealings with Ukraine while he was vice president.
Among other things, the Biden campaign is accusing Johnson of being opaque about whether he is, in effect, “party to a foreign influence operation against the United States” by receiving materials from pro-Russian foreigners as part of the committee’s probe.
The memo, signed by Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield and shared with NBC News, accuses Johnson of “diverting” his committee’s resources away from oversight of the worsening coronavirus pandemic to promote “a long debunked, hardcore rightwing conspiracy theory” about Biden in an attempt to assist President Trump’s re-election campaign.
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The Hatch Act explicitly prohibits:
[...] prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government[1] , except the president, vice president, and certain designated high-level officials, from engaging in some forms of political activity.
Someone should remind these Putin GOP-conduits, that they are breaking US Law, by acting as Putin’s megaphone of disinformation.
Probably several of them.
And the country is done with “turning the page” on their “mischief” — the country wants Justice, after this long painful era of Justice-trampled, under the Trump-Barr oblivion.
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We need to remind these stooges, that They Work for Us — NOT for Vladimir Putin!