Foreign Interference... It's Happening
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 23 October 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It's been a wild couple of days of disinformation in the electoral context. Intelligence community officials are warning about Russian and Iranian efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election—and claiming that Iran is responsible for sending threatening emails from fake Proud Boys to Democratic voters. What exactly is going on here? To talk through the developments and the questions that linger, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Scott R. Anderson, Susan Hennessey and Quinta Jurecic.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:33.9 | The brazenness of it is one of the reasons why I find it so believable that this was Iran, |
| 0:38.7 | because the Iranian regime has taken increasingly brazen behavior in the acts of provocation |
| 0:44.3 | towards the United States over the whole course of the last year and a half or two years. |
| 0:47.7 | So this actually fits really well with that pattern of behavior. |
| 0:50.1 | It's just a slightly new front, a slightly new method that they can pursue that maybe |
| 0:54.6 | gets a little more attention under among domestic audiences in the United States, maybe |
| 0:58.2 | gives them a little bit of an angle saying, oh, we're playing this game that Russia's |
| 1:01.2 | playing as well. |
| 1:02.2 | I don't domestic audience, but it's not a departure for that reason. |
| 1:05.6 | And again, that willingness to be brazenness, that willingness and desire to be provocative |
| 1:10.6 | is not really about the 2020 election, it's about the Trump administration's policies |
| 1:14.4 | and the global geopolitics around that. |
| 1:17.4 | I'm not sure there's a game talk about election, disinveration, interference, and much of |
| 1:20.8 | this is about the US-or-on relationship, or at least that's as big a part of it. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Lawfare Podcast, October 23rd, 2020. |
| 1:31.9 | It's been a wild couple days in disinformation in the electoral context. |
| 1:38.4 | We got a warning from the intelligence community about Iranian interference in the election. |
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