Lawfare Archive: Foreign Interference... It's Happening
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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From October 23, 2020: 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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| 0:39.6 | I'm Geo Kokotakis with an episode from the LawFair archive for July 1st, 2023. |
| 0:45.8 | Yvgeny Pregozion led a 24-hour mutiny against the Russian Ministry of Defense last week. |
| 0:51.6 | At LawFair, we discussed his history prior to this mobilization of Wagner troops, specifically |
| 0:57.0 | focusing on his role in Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. |
| 1:02.8 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from October 23rd, 2020, in which Benjamin |
| 1:08.5 | Wittis sat down with Scott Art Anderson, Susan Hennessey, and Quintajerasek to discuss |
| 1:13.1 | warnings of Russian and Iranian efforts to influence the 2020 US presidential election. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair 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, |
| 1:44.8 | and we got another one about Russian interference in the election. |
| 1:49.6 | We've got fake proud boys, threatening voters, but Google stopped most of it, at least to |
| 1:56.6 | Gmail users. |
| 1:58.9 | What's going on? |
| 2:00.4 | We got a group to talk about it together. |
| 2:02.4 | We got Scott Anderson, we got Susan Hennessey, we got Quintajerasek all in the virtual |
| 2:08.3 | jungle studio to talk it over. |
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