Latest in election interference
The Justice Department charged two Iranian nationals with helping orchestrate a cyber campaign to intimidate and influence American voters in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
What would it take to make America more resilient against propaganda campaigns?
Why does the Justice Department laud indictments that communicate weakness?
The television show “The Americans” imagined KGB agents deployed to the U.S. undercover as regular suburbanites. If the show’s Russian operatives were in the U.S. today, what might they do in the run-up to November?
On Thursday, June 18, at 12:00 p.m., the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a hearing titled, "Emerging Trends in Online Foreign Influence Operations: Social Media, COVID-19, and Election Security." The committee will hear testimony from: Nathan
The heads of numerous departments and federal agencies, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other agencies belonging to the intelligence community, released a joint statement today describing preparations to prevent foreign election interference during “Super Tuesday” presidential primaries.
You can read the statement here and below:
Rather than waiting on Congress, states can use unspent funds for cybersecurity.
Somewhat lackluster attention to Roger Stone’s trial raises the question of who still cares about the Mueller investigation.
Democrats and Republicans alike should prioritize responding to interference from Beijing, imposing additional sanctions on malign actors, closing financial loopholes, raising standards for technology companies and improving election security.
There have been many pieces, in Lawfare and elsewhere, about the weaknesses in America’s political and election systems. In my career as a security executive, I sometimes found it difficult to communicate risk to non-expert audiences when focusing on a specific vulnerability. It is often more effective to paint a dire but realistic scenario relying on the proven capabilities of real adversaries combined with a variety of known, systemic issues.