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As Americans, we should take a moment this morning to read the extremely dire warning Mueller issued yesterday about Russian interference in our elections. 1/
2/ "Russian intelligence officers who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system. The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton Campaign."
3/ "They stole private information, and then released that information through fake online and identities and through the organization Wikileaks. The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate."
4/ "And at the same time as the Grand Jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans in order to influence an election"
5/ "The indictments allege, and the other activities in our report describe efforts to interfere in our political system. They needed to be investigated and understood, and that is among the reasons why the Department of Justice established our office."
6/ "I will close by reiterating the central allegation of our indictments, that there were multiple, systematic efforts to interfere in our election. And that allegation deserves the attention of every American."
7/ By "every American", he means members of the public AND our political leaders. Will President Trump now both acknowledge the threat and confront it?
8/ This is just one front of #TheShadowWar Russia is waging on the US from election interference, to putting weapons in space, to deploying faster, quieter submarines near our homeland, to invading territory in Europe. We ignore it at our own peril: harpercollins.com/9780062853646/…
