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the appropriate entities of the department of justice to investigate and perhaps prosecute these offenses? >> my memo itself doesn't mention the national security division. it is mentioned in another memo that was released by the department. the national security division like all the other law enforcement components cooperates with and is involved in discussions about how to go forward on different kinds of matters. they were involved, for example, in the election threats. they were involved in the threats against judges and prosecutors. they were involved in the hate crimes threats cases. a natural part of our internal analysis. >> let me ask you, did you see the national school board association letter to president biden before you issued your memorandum on october 4th? >> yes, i did. that was part of the reason. their expression at the beginning of that memorandum. >> they raised some of the
Two men are facing charges of making election-related threats against three Michigan officials. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin and Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens received the alleged threatening messages. The Michigan Attorney General’s office says 62-year-old Daniel Thompson of Harrison left voicemail and email messages with Sen. Stabenow’s office. He allegedly also made calls to Rep. Slotkin’s’ office. Prosecutors allege Thompson used vulgar and threatening language referencing the 2020 election. According to the AG’s office, “Thompson stated he was angry about the results of the November election, that he joined a Michigan militia and that there would be violence if the election results were not changed.”
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portugal, spain, sweden, turkey, united kingdom, ukraine and the united states. they specifically targeted the scottish independence vote, the brexit vote and angela merkel. despite knowledge of these election threats, the obama administration sat idly by, instead of warning the trump campaign, doj and james comey fbi used secret surveillance to spy on members of the trump campaign all while allowing election interference to occur. why isn't this hearing focused on holding doj and fbi leadership accountable for this kind of terrible malfeseance and lack of judgment? what was putin's ultimate goal? the former fbi agent and counter terrorism specialist said it is to attack and under mine democracy. the goal the to leavers feeling as if, quote, either the institutions are corrupt or you can't trust the vote, end of quote. this is the kind of classic
lithuan lithuania, montenegro, norway, portugal, spain, turkey, united kingdom, ewe yan and the united states they specifically targeted the scottish independence focus, brexit vote and angela merkel. despite knowledge of these kinds of election threats, the obama administration sat idly by instead of warning the trump campaign, used secret surveillance to spy on members of the trump campaign all while allowing election interference to occur why isn't this hearing focused on holding leadership account bable for this kind of terror shl malfeasance and lack of judgment what was putin's goal? clint watts, a former counterterrorism specialist said it is to attack and undermine democracy. he said the goal is to leave voters feeling as if quote the institutions are corrupt or you can't trust the vote, end of
to election threats? >> the big threat is we saw in 2016 the illinois database was compromised and i think the fear is that in 2020 if we don't do anything we can to combat this threat that we could have a similar compromise. it ran somewhere first came on the scene in 2016 as a ever increasing threat. but i'm glad to see dh as being proactive on this and going out and providing states with the services and service providers. i think it's a really good, that's a cyber attack threat matrix. it is eye-opening to see that the assault on all of our systems both private and public systems were underway. >> shannon: intelligence officials have challenged that
the department won't prepare adequately for election threats in 2020. it sounds like there are more hearings for house democrats to do. >> that's right, lawrence. we're no longer powerless and we don't have to take this, you know, these blows to our democracy anymore. but, again, donald trump is afraid of what these teams would find, which is that russian interests are working on his behalf, and if he has any chance at all in winning in 2020, they're going to have to work overtime because the american people are no longer on his side. but this is in line with what the republicans did just a year ago when they took over $300 million that was slated for election funding security for the states and they zeroed it out. so the threat is no less to the united states from russia. we know that former secretary of defense mattis said that they interfered not only in 2016 but also in the 2018 midterm elections. so we must assume that they're
sentence. i mean, his sentencing guidelines -- >> 20 years or more? >> yeah. >> okay. >> it's a life sentence. >> congressman swalwell, we have another breaking news story tonight that is developing literally in this hour. this is from leaks within the trump government, the two -- saying that trump's department of homeland security is now cutting the forces that are being used within the department of homeland security to protect elections from foreign meddling. i'm just going to read you the lead of this. it says two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former department of homeland security officials, and now the sources say they fear the department won't prepare adequately for election threats in 2020. it sounds like there are more hearings for house democrats to do. >> that's right, lawrence. we're no longer powerless and we
centrally -- this was a strategic effort on the part of russian military intelligence that would have ultimate direction from the president of russia to direct this activity against u.s. elections. another key point, i think, is the use of false identities. gloria mentioned guccifer 2.0. that and d.c. leaks, which many americans think may have thought was an activist organization comprised of americans. these are false identities. as we go forward into the 2018 midterms and future elections, it's so important that we take more strong efforts, as senator warner was describing, to address these election threats. these are false identities online. they were in communication with individuals who thought that they were other americans. and in fact, they were involved in this hacking effort. the other piece is there were thousands of e-mails and