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,
those sources say they fear the department won’t prepare adequately for
election threats in 2020.
“The clear assessment from the
intelligence community is that 2020 is going to be the perfect storm,”
said a DHS official familiar with the teams. “We know Russia is going to
be engaged. Other state actors have seen the success of Russia and
realize the value of disinformation operations.
So it’s very curious why the task forces were demoted in the
bureaucracy and the leadership has not committed resources to prepare
for the 2020 election.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-dhs-guts-task-forces-protecting-elections-from-foreign-meddling
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