Оценка угроз

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Вчера руководители всех американских разведслужб давали показания на слушаниях в комиссии Сената по разведке на тему Worldwide Threats https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-worldwide-threats-hearing-1

Доклад об анализе главных угроз представил Дэн Коутс, директор национальной разведки. Нашлось место Ирану, Северной Корее и России:

We assess that the Russian intelligence services will continue their efforts to disseminate false information via Russian state-controlled media and covert online personas about US activities to encourage anti-US political views. Moscow seeks to create wedges that reduce trust and confidence in democratic processes, degrade democratization efforts, weaken US partnerships with European allies, undermine Western sanctions, encourage anti-US political views, and counter efforts to bring Ukraine and other former Soviet states into European institutions.
- Foreign elections are critical inflection points that offer opportunities for Russia to advance its interests both overtly and covertly. The 2018 US mid-term elections are a potential target for Russian influence operations.
- At a minimum, we expect Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false-flag personas, sympathetic spokespeople, and other means of influence to try to exacerbate social and political fissures in the United States.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-dcoats-021318.PDF



При ответе на вопрос республиканского сенатора Коллинс Коутс сказал:

“They took advantage, sophisticated advantage, of social media. They're doing that not only in the United States, they're doing that throughout Europe and perhaps elsewhere. I think that sends a very strong signal that any elections that are coming up need to be -- we need to assume there might be interference with that, particularly from the Russians, and maybe from some other maligned actors. <...> Obviously, we have to take other measures, but we need to inform the American public that this is real, this is going to be happening, and the resilience needed for us to stand up and say we’re not going to allow some Russian to tell us how to vote, how we ought to run our country. And I think there needs to be a national cry for that.”
https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/senator-collins-presses-intelligence-community-leaders-secure-elections-ahead-2018-midterm

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Ангус Кинг выразил сожаление и гнев. Сожаление о том, что президент Трамп не говорит ни одного слова об угрозе российского вмешательства. Гнев по поводу отсутствия внятной стратегии ответа на это вмешательство, в том числе хакерские атаки: “I am sick and tired of going to these hearings, which I have been going to for five years, where everybody talks of cyber attacks, and our country still does not have a policy or a doctrine or a strategy for dealing with them.”

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В ответ на вопросы сенатора Рида из другого маленького штата руководители разведки были вынуждены признать, что Трамп не говорил им ничего по поводу защиты от российского вмешательства.