Schiff: CIA Learned of Russian Hackers Targeting Senate Candidates From Conference
Source: Daily Beast
ASPEN, ColoradoCIA officials learned about a Russian hacking attempt targeting Senate candidates only when Microsoft publicly revealed the effort at a national security conference, according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff. Schiff said he and his contacts in the National Security Agency (NSA) learned of the attempt at the same time.
Schiff made the comment in an interview at the Aspen Security Forum with NBCs Kristen Welker, after she asked how confident he was in the U.S. governments ability to deter future election interference.
Im not particularly confident, he said. I think back a year ago to this conference, when one of the representatives of Microsoft was on a panel and revealed that two or three Senate campaigns had been the target of spear-phishing attempts by an actor that appeared to be the same Fancy Bear actor, the same Russian GRU unit, that brought us the intervention in the 2016 election. Well, that was the first time I was hearing that. That should not be the first time the Intelligence chair is hearing that. And I went back to D.C. and I talked to my contacts at NSA and CIA and I said, Did you know this? And they did not. And I said, This should not be the first time youre hearing this. And that told me as a matter of quality control that something is broken here. Either it didnt get communicated to the right place by Microsoft or it did and it was stovepiped, or whatever. But we need to find out what happened.
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Schiff learned of the targeting from Tom Burt, Microsofts vice president of customer security and trust. Burt made the comment at the Aspen security forum in 2018, and did not name the campaigns the Russians had targeted. The Daily Beast later revealed that one target was then-Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat in a tight race. McCaskill went on to lose her re-election.
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Botany
(70,542 posts)McConnell knows that Russia has been and still is targeting our nation but
still he blocks anything to stop them and for election security too. He knows
he is very unpopular in his home state of KY but he also knows the system is
rigged and will always win re-election.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)Please Kentucky, do something for the nation and for democracy. Dump the guy!
Botany
(70,542 posts)KY's voting is very dirty. The 2015 Governor's race waster the top dirty.
CrispyQ
(36,487 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,197 posts)The tactics the GOP uses fit hand in glove with the tactics used by Russian spies. The GOP has gained most, if not all, their power in a concerted effort with little man Putin.
As an officer in the Navy during the cold war, I am appalled and horrified. The GOP is a traitorous organization being funded by our own American Capitalist Kings and admitted enemies of our democracy. Their hate of our democratic principles is astounding.
Gates is so comfortable with Russian spies interfering in our elections that the information is nonchalantly spilled out in gossipy conferences and good old boy meetings by his underlings.
Capitalism even buys off patriotism.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Farmer-Rick
(10,197 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)I think some in the FBI are complicit. It doesn't go that far and deep without some help.
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)Maxheader
(4,373 posts)I don't trust americun anti hackers to do the job...
Wonder if the orange haired idiot is giving put-put prefered candidates to go after..?...