The Justice Department tells the Senate about foreign interference in American elections. A senior official describes foreign influence operations against our elections, how the Justice Department treats them from a legal perspective, and how combating the problem is much more than a law enforcement issue.
Summary (emphasis added): “Foreign influence efforts extend beyond efforts to interfere with elections, and they require more than law enforcement responses alone. I will cover three areas in my testimony today. First, I will describe what we mean by the term ‘foreign influence operations’ and provide examples of operations we have observed in the past. Second, I will discuss how the Department has categorized recent foreign influence operations targeting our elections. Third, and finally, I will explain how the Department is responding to those operations and how our efforts fit within the ‘whole of society’ approach that is necessary to defeat foreign influence operations.”
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1. Why does the Justice Department not mention foreign election interference as a counterintelligence problem, as FBI Director Wray did in his Senate testimony announcing the Foreign Influence Task Force?
2. Does the Justice Department indicate any awareness of foreign “insider threats” to election systems technology, or is it focused on propaganda, disinformation, and hacking?
3. How can Adam S. Hickey be so sure that no foreign government has succeeded in perpetrating electoral fraud and why is he being emphatic in trying to dismiss the mere doubt that it has occurred and label such doubt as prejudicial?
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