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And thats the case in two different directions. one, we dont have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did against us. its actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when youre dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influence operation, if that blows back and if that influences an american citizen, that violates...

Difficult problem to deal with within constitutional parameters. >> it absolutely is. and thats the case in two different directions. one, we dont have the same authorities within our intelligence community to do the kinds of things that the russians did dpeagainst us. its actually written into statute that a covert action cannot influence a u.s. person. and so when youre dealing in the age of twitter and social media and you put out, in the u.s. intelligence community puts out a covert influenc...