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tijdMake no mistake. This is a public intervention. Intelligence and military chiefs (NSA, DNI, DHS, FBI, Navy) are now speaking directly to the American people from Sarah Sander's WH podium to assure Americans that our govt IS taking Russia's threat seriously, even if Trump is not. pic.twitter.com/xx8nmg13EB
— Paula Chertok🗽 (@PaulaChertok) August 2, 2018
Руководители разведки и национальной безопасности появились сегодня на брифинге Белого дома с серьезными заявлениями о продолжающемся российском вмешательстве в американскую политику и в американские выборы и о намерении с этим бороться.
Это несколько оттенило другое важное событие - межпартийная группа сенаторов-тяжеловесов внесла новый законопроект об антипутинских санкциях.
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Ben Cardin (D-MD), John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression Act of 2018, comprehensive legislation that will increase economic, political, and diplomatic pressure on the Russian Federation in response to Russia’s continued interference in our elections, malign influence in Syria, aggression in Crimea, and other activities.
“Vladimir Putin continues to pose a growing threat to our country and allies. While Congress overwhelmingly passed a strong set of countermeasures last year, unfortunately, the Administration has not fully complied with that legislation. This bill is the next step in tightening the screws on the Kremlin and will bring to bear the full condemnation of the United States Congress so that Putin finally understands that the U.S. will not tolerate his behavior any longer,” said Senator Menendez. “The Kremlin continues to attack our democracy, support a war criminal in Syria and violate Ukraine’s sovereignty. With the passage of this legislation, Congress will once again act to establish a clear U.S. policy to hold Russia accountable with one clear message: Kremlin aggression will be met with consequences that will shake Putin’s regime to its foundation.”
“The current sanctions regime has failed to deter Russia from meddling in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections,” said Senator Graham. “Our goal is to change the status quo and impose crushing sanctions and other measures against Putin’s Russia until he ceases and desists meddling in the US electoral process, halts cyber-attacks on US infrastructure, removes Russia from Ukraine, and ceases efforts to create chaos in Syria. The sanctions and other measures contained in this bill are the most hard-hitting ever imposed – and a direct result of Putin’s continued desire to undermine American democracy. I strongly believe that DNI Coats’ assessment – that the warning lights are blinking red when it comes to Russian meddling in the 2018 election – is accurate. These sanctions and other measures are designed to respond in the strongest possible fashion.”
https://www.menendez.senate.gov/news-and-events/press/menendez-graham-gardner-cardin-mccain-shaheen-introduce-hard-hitting-russia-sanctions-package
Одна из самых страшных частей законопроекта: "A report on the net worth and assets of Vladimir Putin".
Золотой батон Януковича и другие страшные картинки для Путина вспоминались во время демонстрации страусиных пиджачков Манафорта во время судебного процесса, который идет сейчас в Виргинии.
Если Манафорт научил Януковича причесываться и одеваться, то тот в свою очередь привил Манафорту вкус к дорогим вещам, купленным на ворованные деньги. Ныне прокуроры Мюллера рассказывают присяжным знакомую историю человека, который, наслаждаясь ворованным, считал себя неуязвимым.
The trial of Paul Manafort is not merely an episode in a larger scandal that will unfold over many chapters. It is a warning not to be ignored. It’s an occasion for the United States to awaken from its collective slumber about the creeping dangers of kleptocracy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/this-is-so-much-bigger-than-paul-manafort/566501/
When Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors laid out their case in opening arguments, they correctly diagnosed Manafort’s sense of impunity. He’d kept right on scheming, they argued, because he believed that he would get away with it. Today, the presiding judge in the case, T. S. Ellis III, made a point of constantly chiding the government. He blamed prosecutors for describing Manafort’s clients as “oligarchs,” a term he called unfairly “pejorative.”
The Republican-appointed judge warned Mueller’s team against trying Manafort for “his lavish lifestyle.” As Manafort heard these arguments, I watched him from across the room. I saw him gazing ever so thoughtfully and detected a flicker of something else, too. In that moment, it wasn’t hard to imagine him believing that he might just get away with it one more time.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/paul-manafort-trial-latest/566633/
Информационному аспекту продолжающегося российского вмешательства было посвящено вчерашнее заседание комиссии Сената по разведке: Foreign Influence Operations and their use of Social Media Platforms.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-hearing-foreign-influence-operations-and-their-use-social-media-platforms
На заседании давали показания эксперты по информационной войне, и было продемонстрировано редкое по нашим времена межпартийное единство.
Камала Харрис: "I believe we need to make sure that the American public recognizes who is trying to sow hate and division among us so that the American public can rightly identify and see it for what it is – an attempt to exploit our vulnerabilities for the purpose of weakening our country and our democracy."
https://www.harris.senate.gov/news/press-releases/harris-speaks-out-against-russian-efforts-to-sow-division-in-america
Aнгус Кинг обсуждал с экспертами вопрос "Что делать?"
Сильное заключительное слово председателя комиссии Ричарда Берра: “This issue goes far beyond elections. We’re fighting for the integrity of our society. And we need to enlist every single person.”
Пока непонятно, приведет ли работа комиссии к новым законодательным инициативам. С набором конкретных предложениями выступил заместитель председателя Марк Уорнер:
https://www.scribd.com/document/385137394/MRW-Social-Media-Regulation-Proposals-Developed
Частично активность последних дней связана с действиями очнувшегося Фейсбука, который удалил ряд аккаунтов, пытавшихся проникнуть в различные американские общественные движения с целью провокаций, в том числе в ходе уличных акций протеста.
Today we removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior. This kind of behavior is not allowed on Facebook because we don’t want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing.
We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation and don’t have all the facts — including who may be behind this. But we are sharing what we know today given the connection between these bad actors and protests that are planned in Washington next week. We will update this post with more details when we have them, or if the facts we have change.
It’s clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past.
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/removing-bad-actors-on-facebook/
Organizers behind the newly revealed batch of fake Facebook accounts often sought to work alongside legitimate groups organizing rallies and protests in the U.S., marking a new strategy in efforts to sow discord through social media ahead of the midterm elections, a review of archived event listings shows.
The fake Facebook pages and accounts helped promote more than three dozen events in the last 15 months, most of them protesting the policies of President Trump or promoting left-leaning causes, according to a Wall Street Journal review of 40 now-deleted listings promoted by three groups in particular: “Resisters,” “Black Elevation” and “Aztlan Warriors.” The archived events provide a deeper understanding of the activity beyond what Facebook disclosed on Tuesday.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fake-facebook-accounts-latched-on-to-real-u-s-protest-groups-1533202200
Исследователи Digital Forensic Research Lab с помощью информации из расследования Мюллера идентифицировали группу российских троллей, которые занимались похожей деятельностью во время предвыборной кампании, но не были связаны при этом с фабрикой троллей в Питере и управлялись непосредственно ГРУ из Москвы.
The GRU campaign appears to have had two main goals: to mobilize American opinions, especially African-American opinions, against Clinton, and to spread propaganda which served Russian military interests.
It was much smaller and more focused than the Internet Research Agency operation. It seems to have worked much more closely with the hacking units, although its ability to amplify their leaks was limited. Above all, unlike the troll farm, it was conducted by serving officers in Russian military intelligence.
Mueller’s indictment therefore reveals that the U.S. was targeted by two separate Russian troll operations during the 2016 election, and one of them can be traced directly to the Russian authorities.
https://medium.com/dfrlab/trolltracker-russias-other-troll-team-4efd2f73f9b5
