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Senate Finance Committee launches bipartisan investigation into conservative think tank over Maria Butina meetings with senior U.S. administration officials in 2015.

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NEW: Senate Panel Launches Bipartisan Probe Into Think Tank Linked To Butina, Torshin

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In a letter to Dimitri Simes, the CEO of the Center for the National Interest think tank, the committee requested records related to meetings Torshin and Butina had in 2015 with the Federal Reserve and Treasury officials

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By coincidence, the Federal Reserve just responded to an NPR FOIA request demanding info on the Butina-Federal Reserve Meeting

It shows that Torshin/Butina took their meetings as a side-trip to their visit to the U.S. to attend the NRA's annual meeting

npr.org/2019/02/15/695…
NPR also obtained the internal memo the Federal Reserve wrote about the meeting.

It shows that back in Spring 2015, Butina and Torshin were already touting their NRA ties as credentials to top U.S. officials:

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I went to House Intel Cmte Chairman Devin Nunes' district to report on the tightest race of his political life

His opponent Andrew Janz is within single digits in a district Nunes won by 35 pts last cycle. Janz raised $8 mil so far

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One criticism of Nunes has been that he hasn't been responsive to local concerns, while accruing a national profile on natsec issues irrelevant to the farming/ag heavy district he represents in Calif's Central Valley.

So I went to check it out:

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When NPR tried to visit his taxpayer-funded office in the most populated region of Nunes' district, it was closed and unstaffed at 2 p.m. on a weekday.

Phone calls go straight to voicemail. The only other office is more than 45 minutes away by car.

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Two exclusives this morning:

NPR, w/outside data firm, sifted through 3 million Russian troll farm tweets to find out how the Internet Research Agency talked about the NRA and guns from 2015-2018

npr.org/2018/09/21/648…

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Russia's Twitter influence campaign was strongly pro-gun, pro-NRA, and echoed the NRA's views

The analysis shows that 77% of their content was pro-gun, pro-NRA; and 11% was anti

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On every issue from race to healthcare, women's rights to police brutality, gay marriage to global warming, accounts associated with the "Internet Research Agency" amplified controversy by playing up conflict.

Except when it came to guns and the NRA.

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Had an eye-opening interview this week with the CEO of @FireEye, a top cybersecurity firm.

The facts are depressing.

Bottom line is: there's no such thing as a reliable cyberdefense. A dedicated attacker WILL get through eventually.
@FireEye FireEye formed over 300 'Red Teams' where companies/orgs hired them to try and break in. Break in to steal the CEO's email or affect the assembly line.

More the 90% of the time, FireEye was able to do it in five days.

And these are conscientious companies!
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The idea of controlled opposition / agents of influence isn't easy to grasp. It's a lot to take in, but what you have to understand is how rigged the game often is in the Kremlin's favor. How so?
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