Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms
Russia is attempting to influence the midterm elections in the United States in November as well as divide the transatlantic alliance, US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats warned at a meeting co-hosted by the Atlantic Council in Normandy, France, on June 8.
Coats said Russia had already undertaken an “unprecedented influence campaign to interfere in the US electoral and political process” in 2016. Russia, Coats pointed out, has also meddled in France, Germany, Norway, Spain, and Ukraine. "It is 2018, and we continue to see Russian targeting of American society in ways that could affect our midterm elections," he said.
Coats’ comments are aligned with assessments by the US intelligence community and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who in his previous role as director of the Central Intelligence Agency warned that he expected Russia to attempt to disrupt the midterm elections.
Coats spoke at a meeting jointly hosted by the Atlantic Council, Le Figaro, and the Tocqueville Foundation in Normandy, France.
Coats said Russia had conducted cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns with the intent of “degrading our democratic values and weakening our alliances.”
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/director-of-national-intelligence-dan-coats-russia-is-attempting-to-influence-us-midterms-divide-transatlantic-alliance
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Yup, tha sounds a lot like a disinfo campaign alright.
Putin's destruction of our 2 Party system is proving harder than anticipated .
It appears, with our recent Primaries, the Democratic Party isn't the cakewalk the GOP was.
Putin will strengthen his billionaire funded destruction of the Democratic Party, thru Money & our billionaire owned Media messaging by using every tool he did in 2016.
We are the great Democratic Party of ALL people & we are no one's fools.
We'll call out & crush the Party of Vladimer Putin in 2018, whatever disguise it appears in.
Bye Vlad
why would Russia want to do this? 
It's time to hit back. Maybe a shutdown of their entire internet system and a few strategic industries for a while? Hurt Donnie's Uncle Vlad in the pocket book. It's the only thing Russian (well, and American) Oligarchs understand.