Senator Mark Warner on Social Media and Foreign Influence Campaigns

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, speaks with host Michael Morell about top national security issues facing the intelligence community, the policymakers who oversee it, and the administration within which it operates. Warner shares his views on the responsibilities of currently-serving intelligence officials and the importance of adhering to the rule of law, and explains why the Senate Intelligence Committee’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election might be among the most important efforts of his public life. He tells Morell why his concerns about the strategic threat posed China have multiplied in recent years, and what he believes Silicon Valley – and the U.S. government – need to do to protect themselves against foreign influence campaigns from Russia, China, Iran and others.

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0:33.8	Morel, sponsored by Raytheon.
0:36.6	I've known you for a long time, and I know you care deeply about a lot of things, but
0:40.9	the Russia issue seems to me to be special to you.
0:43.8	When we saw how extensive the full-on assault Russia and its agents directed by Vladimir Putin,
0:49.4	the inner fear and our most basic and critical democratic process, our presidential election
0:54.0	process.
0:55.0	We saw then-candidate Trump saying only good things about Putin.
0:58.7	This to me felt like it was as important as anything I'll do in my public life.
1:04.1	Social media companies.
1:05.1	Do they need to do more?
1:06.1	Absolutely.
1:07.1	Twitter, who was lagging, has really gotten a lot more aggressive.
1:09.1	I'm really concerned about Google who've tried to keep their head low.
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