Democrats rally around pledge not to use hacked documents
But even Democrats aren’t all on the same page about hacked material in certain circumstances, my colleagues reported.
“Refusal to forgo both hacking and the use of hacking materials is a great start, but clear stances on use of fake social media accounts, fake websites and images, high-volume bots, troll farms, and other illicit tactics in common use today by Russia, Saudi Arabia, China and other authoritarian nations will also be necessary,” Simon Rosenberg, who was a senior adviser to the House Democratic campaign arm in 2016 and helped run a program to search for online election interference, told Sean and...
Before the 2018 contests, Rubio and then-Sen. Bill Nelson sent a letter to all Florida election officials warning about Russian hacking — written at the request of Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr and ranking Democrat Mark Warner . Nelson also warned that Russians were actively inside Florida county networks at the time, but that wasn’t confirmed by the Department of Homeland Security or the other senators.
The new working group plans to “take a step back” from that big question about police access and focus on broader encryption issues that haven’t received as much focus The group does not include any representatives from law enforcement or the tech industry but is weighted toward former government officials, including former FBI general counsel Jim Baker, former CIA deputy director Avril Haines and former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis as well as former Obama White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco.
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