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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

There are rare instances of altering votes,

like in eastern Europe and the immediate post-war period,

or the targeting of Ukrainian electoral systems in 2014,

but really this is a tradition of manipulating minds.

Russia did that throughout our country for months,

and through the threat of another type of interference

of disrupting the voting process through reports

that Michael Daniel, the cybersecurity coordinator in the White House,

told me he was getting daily reports in August of intrusions and penetrations

into our electoral infrastructure,

was coming in on a ceaseless basis that captivated and ultimately froze our government,

as Russia's influence campaign was raging.

So that to me is the most essential sort of lens through which to understand

what happened in our government in that time,

and then there were assumptions that also mattered there,

which is that their worst case scenario was that Russia would sabotage voter databases

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