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Welcome to a second abridged summer edition of the Political Law Playbook. Of particular note in this edition is recent activity in the US Senate regarding a proposed measure to reform...

Published May 26, 2021 Andrew Hutchinson Content and Social Media Manager As it continues to refine its approach to misinformation and disinformation actors, and detecting networks seeking to use its massive audience reach for their own political purposes, Facebook has today launched a new, 44-page report on the various coordinated networks that its detected since 2017, in the wake of revelations around the Cambridge Analytica and Russian-backed interference efforts in the US.  Facebooks full ...

Again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified at experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their opponent or something else that they could use to help them get elected, why that might be an influence operation. can you as somebody who has done counterintelligence work li...

Staff to pick up the phone and call the fbi and report what is an overture by a foreign government to engage in an influence operation in the united states, ostensibly, again, to subvert our democratic process. >> today at the intelligence committee in the house, we just spoke with the chairman of that committee. there were former fbi officials who testified as experts who talked about why foreign governments might want to offer a candidate in a u.s. election assistance with dirt on their oppone...

Documents on offer. >> are the russians involved in this scheme still active? >> it would appear so. let me read to you a key line that i found fascinating, is that the mueller team says that the sensitive discovery identifies uncharged individuals and entities the government believes are continuing to engage in operations that interfere with lawful u.s. government functions like those activities charged in the indictment. clearly, there are names there are still people that are associated with ...

About cyber security as a growing challenge, then actually not placing personnel on the white house that are working on those issues. >> can you put it finally in perspective for me? dan coats is saying that the warning lights are flashing again with regard to russian interference. how under threat is the mid-term election? >> so i think the mid-term elections are a top threat target. the way that we would talk about that is, it is a target for cyber-enabled activity. i think that youve seen act...

Confident they will and i pressed him, i fed is this turns out to be false, these assertions, your career is over, youre done, you wont be serving your client well, this will be a catastrophe and he said he understood that which gave me the sense he had access to or had seen something or told something he had a high degree of confidence that it would be verified and that it was quickly by the "new york times" and other news outlets so he has the same questions we all have which is there are two ...

Kushner. last fall, in november 2017, jared went along on the presidents trip to china. after they all came home, in december 2017, u.s. intelligence officials briefed wider circle of trump, saying that a member of the presidents family was being targeted by an influence operation. jared kushner still works at the white house. cant fire someone from the job of son-in-law, right? but he reportedly no longer has access to classified information. and now apart from turning up at places like last ni...

Their founder, marina butina. >> aleksander torshin hired marina butina, who won a political contest put on by the kremlin. she comes from a hunting background, very comfortable with guns. she won a regional political competition, sort of caught the eye of aleksander torshin. she founded the group right to bear arms which turned into a russian clone in moscow of the nra, so promoting a sort of second amendment in russia, all kinds of advances in gun rights, which theyve had very sort of modest s...

Theyre going to do in an investigation, but man, if the president has really sat on his senior staff, pushed a bunch of them out in humiliating ways, its not going to help them be more loyal to them in a case like this. >> okay. you wrote a very interesting article. i want to get to it right now. its about how russia harvested american rage to reshape u.s. politics. its a departure from what were used to hearing, in fact, because in this case, the russians didnt really need to create fake news a...