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Over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message that was essentially the 1922 version of the presidents tweet. the leaflet said, quote, do not attempt to vote unless you are legally registered. those cards dropped over black neighborhoods in oklahoma in 1922. they also had a little illustration next to the text, a guy in a hood with the initials kkk written on the hood. the "washington post" a few years a...

To? i mean there is a history of this kind of intimidation and threatening behavior and threatening messaging around voting in our recent past. we saw that in 2012, in wisconsin and ohio, those threatening billboards. there is also of course a rich history of this in our distant past, plus or minus the available technology. in 1922, somebody flew biplanes over oklahoma city and dropped leaflets out of planes over black neighborhoods right around election time. those leaflets carried a message th...

>> he espionage is happening al over all the time. yeah, they can try. evidently from what ive heard, they didnt get very far. a >> so youre not worried about russian entities, people, bots weve heard that they used to deploy during the past election being able to do more in future elections if we dont get to the bottom of it? >> well, sure you its concerning, but all dibd of espionage and operations are concerning, but we have to be manned up enough to fight it back. >> how do you fight back --...

Uncertainty of it all. there was a leaflet drop over mosul last night that was trying to give people advice on how to keep themselves safe. telling them to put out white flags and also to tape up their windows. disconnect gas canisters, remove them from their homes, to not get close to explosion sites. and to try to stay indoors and keep wet rags next to them. its such an unspeakably difficult time right now for the population. on the one hand, yes, they do want isis rule to end, but on the othe...

Part of the u.s. plan is to hopefully in their view get as much intel to strengthen the targeting ability. so if you have a u.s. special forces raid and they are able to control some of the contents of a location, computers and address books and, you know, you can get a sense of what im talking about there, how can that then be exploited for future use? one of the other facts we were told is that u.s. airplanes had been coming back about 70% of the time with their ordnance still on the plane, me...

Arwa, i know its the middle of the night there. it is dark. there is a lot that you cannot see clearly. but what have you heard from your vantage point? >> well, weve been hearing fighter jets overhead. there has been artillery that weve been hearing in the distance. its also important to note that last night, there was a leaflet drop over the city of mosul, also telling residents to cooperate with the iraqi security forces. also telling them to tape up their windows. to do things like disconnec...