Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats announces the creation of an Election Threats Executive (ETE).
“Election security is an enduring challenge and a top priority for the IC [intelligence community],” Coats says in a statement cited by NBC and other news outlets. “In order to build on our successful approach to the 2018 elections, the IC must properly align its resources to bring the strongest level of support to this critical issue.”
Coats also directed the FBI, the CIA and other spy agencies to name a single lead for election security for each agency.
The ETE, an individual appointment, is to serve as the DNI’s chief advisor on threats and security issues relating to elections in the United States.
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1. Threats to American elections has gone from an FBI concern to a full intelligence community concern. What public information is available to indicate that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has considered foreign regime control or infiltration of electronic voting systems to be a threat, and what has been done about it in the last 5 years?
2. Did the Election Threats Executive (ETE) or someone from the Intelligence Community, review the potential threat from alleged links of voting system companies in US electoral system with foreign governments?
3. Did the FBI, CIA and other spy agencies comply with DNI Coats’ orders to appoint a single election security officer for each agency?
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