Lawfare Archive: Foreign Interference... It's Happening
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🗓️ 8 September 2024
⏱️ 44 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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| 1:28.9 | Music Learn more at freshworks.com. I'm Ben Green, intern at Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare Archive for September 8th, 2024. In the last few days, the Justice Department has unsealed numerous indictments |
| 1:34.2 | against those that accusers of foreign interference in the 2024 election, including Russian |
| 1:39.0 | assets. Tenet Media, the company behind the likes of right-wing influencer Tim Poole, was alleged to have been paid tens of millions of dollars to promote Russian interests, |
| 1:48.0 | while Dmitri Symes and his wife Anastasia were accused of violating sanctions through their paid work for Channel One Russia. |
| 1:55.0 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from October 23, 2020, in which Benjamin Witters set down with |
| 2:02.7 | Scott R. Anderson, Susan Hennessey, and Quinter Jurecic to discuss the US intelligence |
| 2:07.6 | community's warnings about Russian and Iranian interference in the 2020 presidential election. |
| 2:13.7 | They considered topics such as Iranian responsibility for fake email threats from the proud boys, |
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