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Sort of pre-existing business deals and a money laundering investigation. which is what has led to the indictments of paul manafort and rick gates. theres also been reporting, particularly by buzzfeed about some suspicious payments coming through the russian embassy here in the united states that were flagged by its bank. then you have, you know, when we talk about the hacking of the election, we actually mean a couple of different things. the second bucket here are the information operations. t...

And they were to start moving into not just data exploitation, but data manipulation. >> right. >> that the data that you encounter online is not necessarily going to be true. what we are now seeing facebook talk about and what were now seeing facebook yet to discuss, but our reporting as well as others are showing happened was thats basically the model going forward. from this active measure stuff. you saw these really disgusting anti-immigrant islamophobic rallies promoted through facebook. th...

But data manipulation. >> right. >> that the data that you encounter online is not necessarily going to be true. what we are now seeing facebook talk about and what were now seeing facebook yet to discuss, but our reporting as well as others are showing happened was thats basically the model going forward. from this active measure stuff. you saw these really disgusting anti-immigrant islamophobic rallies promoted through facebook. thats an effort to move even further from manipulated data, from ...

Destruction of data. the prediction came in this exchange with the republican chairman. >> do we so data manipulation on a massive scale? most have been -- >> like changing voting rolls, yes. >> what happens if we change data? >> thats a different challenge for us. >> and a senior democrat declared cyber policy broken, even nonexistent. >> forcing the russians to pay a price for their attack on this country requires compelling americans who colluded or cooperated with them to pay a price or poli...

Another possible scenario. >> give us the best scenario and the worst scenario. >> do we see data manipulation on a massive scale? most has been penetration and infraction, so what happens if we go in and change data? it is a very different kind of challenge for us. >> if there was another main theme that came out of todays hearing it was frustration among the senators that there had been no real punishment for russia and now the lessons that moscow had learned from the u.s. election were now be...

Severe cyber attacks in the future. >> according to the defense departments own cyber doctrine a report that was issued this spring key element of deterrence. if you dont admit its a big deal and who did it youll embolden lots more attackers. >> reporter: writing today he said "this refusal is a strategic mistake. and the fact that were making it may indicate things are even worse than weve been led to believe" in what may be a significant split with the white house, the nations top spy now says...

Despite helmans partial exoneration, she accepted airline tickets and an eight-stay family stay at disney world from a consultant trying to do business at the va. helmans attorney praised the de -- related to wait time data manipulation and patient point backlog mismanagement. in doing so, the va knowingly made ms. helman bear the brunt of contrived political outrage. >> the white house referred us to the va which did not respond to our question. but the -- helps us begin to put the leadership f...

Money. whistle-blowers said this happened in a rush to cut cut a huge backlog of claims. when they faced concerns about this and earth issues they refaced retaliation. >> i faced retaliation of improper sledding of military mail, veterans receiving duplicate payments after improper payment has been made and not returned, data manipulation and various other gross misinterpretations of law. instead of solving problems i was an continue to be retaliated by va. these morally bankrupt managers in tim...

Billion plan on the table. jeff session fired off a letter saying congress must block the presidents funding request until he agrees to severe off more executive orders on immigration. session dharg last one in 2012 unleashed a flood of new illegal immigration into the country. this is a disaster he created. the white house may finally be getting that message about tweaking the budget request today on crude oil. jeh johnson said congress will work out the details. they may be willing to accept l...

The army said his reintergracious is ongoing. hes slowly being exposed to more people and social situations. the taliban captured bergdahl in 2009. he was freed as part of a prisoner swap last month. the fallout continuing in the scandal in department of affairs. the administrations have known about data manipulation of doctor appointments for two years according to records obtained by the arizona newspaper. its sharp contrast to top officials claiming the first time they heard of the manipulati...