The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday issued its long-awaited report on how former President Barack Obama handled Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The
bipartisan report found that the Obama administration was ill-prepared
to handle the novel election interference offensive and recommended that
in the future the “public should be informed as soon as possible” if a
foreign active measures campaign is detected. “After
discovering the existence, if not the full scope, of Russia’s election
interference efforts in late-2016, the Obama Administration struggled to
determine the appropriate response,” the committee’s GOP chairman, Sen.
Richard Burr of North Carolina, said in a statement. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s top Democrat, said that there
were “many flaws” with the Obama administration’s response but noted
that “many of those were due to problems with our own system – problems
that can and should be corrected.” The Senate Intelligence Committee also concluded that the Russian government sought to bolster Trump’s 2016 election chances.The Senate report released Thursday is the third, out of an expected
five, stemming from the committee’s probe into the government’s handling
of Russian meddling efforts. The investigation began in 2017 and has
proceeded on a largely bipartisan basis, in contrast with parallel
congressional inquiries. The committee found that the Obama administration was “not
well-postured” to counter the Russian interference campaign and said
that while “high-level warnings were delivered to Russian officials,
those warnings may or may not have tempered Moscow’s activity.” The committee emphasized that in case of future attacks, the public
should be notified “as soon as possible with a clear and succinct
statement of the threat.” “If the Administration had informed the
public of Russian hacking and dumping earlier than October 7, and had
there been bipartisan condemnation of these operations, the public and
the press may have reacted differently to the WikiLeaks releases,” the
committee wrote...MORE
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