All US intelligence is against Russia. The heads of the American special services accused Moscow of new attempts to intervent

A couple of hours after the Senators of the bill on new sanctions, the heads of special services of the United States again fell upon Russia. The leaders of the four US intelligence services at once accused Moscow of continuing attacks and attempts to intervene in the American elections. Such unanimity greatly increases the chances of taking new “crushing” sanctions.

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• Last night in the White House , the head of the US National Intelligence, Dan Cowts, director of the FBI, the head of the US Department of Internal Security, Kirsteen Nielsen, Director of the National Security Agency Polsano, and the adviser to the US President John Bolton, and Russia, this press conference does not promise nothing good.
• “Russia tried to intervene in the last elections and continues its malicious operations to this day <...> - regardless of whether the election season is now or not,” Ray said. “We recognize the threat, it is real, and it is still there,” Kout confirmed.

Paul Oakson (left) and Kirsten Nielsen (right). Photo: Google Images

• About the threats of the head of the special services themselves told a little. In short: they are very afraid of attempts by Russian intervention in the intermediate elections that will be held in November, and are preparing for the fact that Russia is attacking with lightning speed, although so far they do not see the activity that was observed in 2016.
• But manipulations through social networks, according to the FBI, continue permanently - even when there are no elections on the horizon. Facebook this week reported that he identified and blocked dozens of fake accounts, and found attempts to conduct campaigns, clearly aimed at affecting the intermediate elections.
• Preparations for attacks are underway, and the president supports it, assures the intelligence community. Last week, Donald Trump instructed special services to aggressively withstand threats. True, the Republicans in the Senate voted against the allocation of an additional $ 250 million to strengthen the security of the electoral system before the interim elections - the senators recalled that this year $ 380 million were already allocated to the States.
• But Okasona said that cybercommunication was considering the possibility of conducting their own cyber attacks and operations - to intimidate those who try to intervene in the next elections.

What am I to me?

The joint press conference of the leaders of the American special services and the statements that three months before the interim elections, Russia continues to attempts to intervene, increase the chances of adopting the next bill on new sanctions. In one of them, the statement of special services is proposed to be considered a sufficient basis for automatically expanding sanctions - bypassing Trump.

Irina Malkova