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Biden administration prepares to impose sanctions on Russia over Navalny poisoning and SolarWinds hackComment
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Russian President Vladimir Putin likely directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, according to an American intelligence report released on Tuesday that sources said would likely trigger U.S. sanctions on Moscow.
The 15-page report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, added heft to longstanding allegations that some of Trump's top lieutenants were playing into Moscow's hands by amplifying claims made against then-candidate Joe Biden by Russian-linked Ukrainian figures in the run-up to the Nov. 3 election. It also added new findings that Putin either oversaw or at least approved of the election meddling to benefit Trump.
Washington is expected to impose sanctions on Moscow as soon as next week because of the allegations, three sources said on condition of anonymity.Comment
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New intel reports indicate fresh efforts by Russia to interfere in 2022 election
The Biden administration is receiving regular intelligence reports indicating Russian efforts to interfere in US elections are evolving and ongoing, current and former officials say, and in fact, never stopped, despite President Joe Biden's warnings to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the summer and a new round of sanctions imposed in the spring.
Biden made deliberate mention of Russia's operations two weeks ago when he revealed in public remarks to the intelligence community that that he had received fresh intelligence about "what Russia's doing already about the 2022 election and misinformation" in his daily intelligence briefing that day.
"It's a pure violation of our sovereignty," Biden said at the time.
One of the people familiar with the matter confirmed that there have been recent intelligence reports about what the Russians are up to, particularly their efforts to sow disinformation on social media and weaponize US media outlets for propaganda purposes. There are some indications that Moscow is now attempting to capitalize on the debate raging inside the US over vaccines and masking, other sources told CNN.
Sources closely tracking Russian activity say that Moscow's tactics are evolving and are more sophisticated than their early 2016 efforts, which included easy-to-trace efforts like buying Facebook ads. They also emphasize that elections are not Moscow's only target.
"There's definitely a spike in activity around elections — they do take an interest in down-ballot races — but the activity is sustained," said Emily Harding, who was the deputy staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee until this spring. "It never really stopped, and we should not be linking our attention or efforts to the election cycle, because they're not."
In April the Treasury Department sanctioned a total of 32 Russian groups and individuals, including Russian intelligence services, in retaliation for what the US intelligence community has charged was a deliberate scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election by spreading false information about Biden during his campaign against then President Donald Trump.
In June, during his summit with Putin in Geneva, Biden warned Putin to rein in his country's malicious cyber activities, including ransomware attacks and interference in US politics. But given the new reports, it's clear the message didn't stick — at least not yet. Biden following the summit sought to temper expectations.
"We'll find out within the next six months to a year whether or not we actually have a strategic dialogue that matters," Biden said at the time. "We'll find out whether we have a cybersecurity arrangement that begins to bring some order."
Bill Evanina, who was the senior intelligence official in charge of briefing the presidential candidates on threats to the 2020 election, said the Russians "will ignore" the message Biden sent at the summit "like they've ignored every message for the last couple decades."
"I don't think anyone in the Biden administration or Congress believes that Putin will change any of his behaviors because we asked him to," added Evanina, who left after the election and is now CEO of The Evanina Group advisory firm.
"Securing our elections is fundamental to our democracy," a National Security Council spokesman told CNN in a statement. "We constantly monitor for threats, including foreign efforts to influence or interfere in our democratic processes, and work closely with state and local election officials to protect our elections."
'A State of Perpetual Conflict'
Russia's strategic and military leaders incorporate information warfare tactics in both wartime and peacetime, according to a 2020 report from the State Department's Center for Global Engagement — a doctrine that "speak[s] to Russia's strategic formulation that it is in a state of perpetual conflict with its perceived adversaries."
But while Russia's overall strategy may remain the same, Evanina said, their "tactics change consistently." One big reason for that, he noted, is that Russia's intelligence services are in competition with each other, so are "constantly looking for opportunities to impress the boss with new and creative ways to sow discord here and cause chaos in our democracy."
Rather than simply attempting to engineer the victory of a particular candidate — as Moscow famously tried to do in both 2016 and 2020 with then-candidate Trump — the Russian intelligence services' broader strategy is to focus on widening the social chasms between Americans by amplifying existing extremist voices on both sides of the political divide, Harding, Evanina and others said.
The intelligence community earlier this year released a report concluding that the Russian government interfered in the 2020 election with a disinformation push that sought to denigrate President Joe Biden's campaign and support Trump. The report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found Russia used "proxies linked to Russian intelligence" to push unsubstantiated claims about Biden.
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