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2019-03-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

FBI chief: Foreign influence campaigns continually targeting US

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-06 04:11|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "The thing that most shocked me was the breath and the depth and the scale of the Chinese counterintelligence threat," he added, according to CNN.

The fact that Wray found this "shocking" is of little comfort to me.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-06 04:17|| 2019-03-06 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Wray noted that the FBI has been aligning with social media companies to prevent influence campaigns from spreading online, saying the cooperation has been a "great example of how the government and private sector can work together in a common defense."

Given our current FBI, that's not exactly comforting either.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-06 05:15|| 2019-03-06 05:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm calling bullshit. Chrissy Wray is trying to misdirect from his blood brothers deep state treason.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-06 05:23|| 2019-03-06 05:23|| Front Page Top

#4 If he actually said "breath" and not "breadth", he should be fired. Accordingly, it's just as likely that an illiterate POS CNN reporter and layers of Hill editors missed that

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-06 07:11|| 2019-03-06 07:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Yawn. This is nothing new. Lemme know when you do something about it.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-06 11:23|| 2019-03-06 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, duh.

If you were the head of state or the intelligence service of a foreign country, wouldn't you be doing your level best to influence our policies in your favor?

Posted by Tom 2019-03-06 13:53|| 2019-03-06 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 wouldn't you be doing your level best to influence our policies in your favor?

At the overt level that’s called diplomacy. Covertly, it is spying, and those engaged in it can be shot on sight. And, as it was known before the 2016 campaign to be occurring — not to mention a few major Democratic party donors engaging in their own disinformation campaigns on the side in both 2016 and 2018 — it’s past time to look closely at the Obama administration people who should have stopped it but chose to say and do nothing about it.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-06 14:04|| 2019-03-06 14:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Yes what Mi6 did was terrible...

When are the sanctions on foreign influencer Britain?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-06 18:35|| 2019-03-06 18:35|| Front Page Top

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