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Last night was nuts so let& #39;s talk about this statement a bit more in depth in the light of day, with coffee in hand 
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DNI Ratcliffe says Iran spoofed Proud Boys emails and used publicly available voter records to intimidate voters in FL and AK.
(cont) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/proud-boys-emails-florida/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolog...
DNI Ratcliffe says Iran spoofed Proud Boys emails and used publicly available voter records to intimidate voters in FL and AK.
(cont) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/20/proud-boys-emails-florida/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolog...
Ratcliffe also says "Russia has access to voter information" (as it is public and easy to obtain), but after spending minutes describing the disturbing Iranian operation, doesn& #39;t really explain anything else we& #39;re seeing related to Russian influence campaigns.
This paints a confusing picture to the non-expert, IMO; it looks like "Iran did this horrible thing, Russia has some files."
Meanwhile, we know Russia has been interfering in political processes around the world for over a decade. Its US operations never stopped after 2016.
Meanwhile, we know Russia has been interfering in political processes around the world for over a decade. Its US operations never stopped after 2016.
(If you& #39;re interested in learning more about Russian ops elsewhere, I wrote a book about it: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-lose-the-information-war-9781838607685/)">https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to...
The intel community& #39;s public assessments of foreign interference this election cycle have all given short shrift to Russia; we saw this with an initial notification about interference activities in July which placed China above Russia https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public">https://www.dni.gov/index.php...
And DNI Ratcliffe made the bizarre decision to declassify unverified intel about the 2016 election in what seemed to be a political move https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/us/politics/john-ratcliffe-intelligence.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/0...
All of this amounts to an environment of distrust, unfortunately. When the American people are being briefed about ongoing threats to this election, I would prefer to not have to read between the lines of official announcements like a Soviet Kremlinologist.
