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Exclusive: Secret CIA assessment: Putin ‘probably directing’ influence operation to denigrate Biden https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
On Aug. 31, the CIA published an assessment of Russian efforts to interfere in the November election in an internal, highly classified report with input from the NSA and FBI... https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
The CIA assessment includes details of the activities of Ukrainian lawmaker Andriy Derkach to disseminate disparaging information about Biden inside the U.S. through lobbyists, Congress, the media and contacts with figures close to the president (Rudy) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
"We assess that [Putin] and the senior most Russian officials are aware of and probably directing Russia’s influence operations aimed at denigrating [Biden], supporting [Trump] and fueling public discord ahead of the U.S. election in November.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/22/secret-cia-assessment-putin-probably-directing-influence-operation-denigrate-biden/
I joined @JohnBerman on @NewDay @cnn to talk about my scoop on the CIA assessment that Putin is "probably directing" the influence campaign to denigrate Joe Biden. Check it out:
Biden spox @AndrewBatesNC: “As Joe Biden has said for months, it is absolutely clear who Vladimir Putin wants to win this election — because Donald Trump's foreign policy has been a gift to the Kremlin...” 1/2
2/2 “... And it is tragic that certain members of Congress are so overcome by the most corrosive form of partisanship imaginable that they have chosen to be accessories to foreign influence operations against the very sovereignty of the United States.”
