“Opinion | Stephanie Murphy: Why is the Russian medding in 2016 such a big secret? I’m not allowed to say. - The Washington Post” - 9/3/19 by ⁦@RepStephMurphy⁩ 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-i…
“The fact that Florida’s election infrastructure was specifically — and successfully — targeted wasn’t made public until about three years after the fact, when a single sentence deep in the Mueller report revealed Russia had breached “at least one” county in the state.” 2/
According to Mueller’s report, the “GRU sought to infiltrate computer networks involved in the administration of elections, which could enable Russia to alter voter registration databases or perhaps vote tabulation systems.” 3/
“Why have the details of this foreign attack...been shrouded in secrecy? For the most part, it’s not the need to protect intelligence sources & methods.” 4/
Rather, the details of Russia’s attack on our election infrastructure have remained secret mostly bc “it’s that federal law enforcement agencies view local election officials whose networks were targeted as victims entitled to confidentiality.” 5/

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