Taking a quick break from the #MuellerReport to tweet the Senate Committee on Intelligence
REPORT on RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS and INTERFERENCE in the 2016 US ELECTION
VOLUME 1: RUSSIAN EFFORTS AGAINST ELECTION
INFRASTRUCTURE
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I. INTRO
From 2017 to 2019, the Committee held hearings, conducted interviews, and reviewed intelligence related to Russian attempts in 2016 to access election infrastructure.
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IRA subdivided the Translator Dept into different responsibilities, ranging from oeprations on different social media platforms to analytics to graphics and IT.
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IRA employees also traveled to the United States on intelligence-gathering missions.
In June 2014, four IRA employees applied to the US Dept of State to enter the US, while lying about the purpose of their trip and claiming to be four friends who had met at a party.
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II. RUSSIAN "ACTIVE MEASURES" SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
The first form of Russian election influence came principally from the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian organization funded by Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin and companies he controlled, including [Concord]
The IRA conducted social media operations targeted at large US audience with the goal of sowing discord in the U.S. political system.
These operations constituted "active measures," .. aimed at influencing the course of international affairs.
..submitted to the Attorney General [AG] pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c), which states that, "[a]t the conclusion of the Special Counsel's work, he ... shall provide the AG a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions
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The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.
Evidence of Russian government operations began to surface in mid-2016.
