The Kremlin may be more involved in U.S. politics than you realize
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Hackers released a treasure trove of unpleasant internecine emails on the eve of the Democratic National Convention. The Democratic Party chairwoman was out of a job and tensions between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters were reignited just as the Democrats were trying for a prime-time show of unity. Who were the hackers? Security experts inside and outside the government have pointed the finger at Russia. So, was this an act foreign aggression playing out on a strange new battlefield?
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| 0:19.0 | The opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters news. It is not a Democrat-Republican issue. |
| 0:22.0 | This is a national security, this is a democracy with a big |
| 0:26.7 | D democracy issue. We're going to start this week's episode off with a question. How deeply has Russia |
| 0:41.9 | penetrated the U. the US political process? |
| 0:45.0 | Recent stories have revealed hacks of the Democratic National Committee |
| 0:49.0 | and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. |
| 0:52.0 | Russia has been fingered as the culprit, even though... a what Russia might hope to gain from such intrusions, but we'll also look at what other methods |
| 1:06.2 | US rivals may use to try to shift the balance of this November's election. |
| 1:16.0 | You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict |
| 1:19.0 | focusing on the stories behind the front lines. |
| 1:22.0 | Here's your host, Jason Fields. |
| 1:29.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. I'm Jason Fields with Reuters. |
| 1:34.0 | And I'm Matthew Galt with Wars Boring. |
| 1:36.2 | Today we're very, very lucky, especially considering the timing |
| 1:39.3 | to be talking with cybersecurity expert Peter W Singer. |
| 1:43.6 | Singer is a strategist at the New America Foundation |
| 1:46.3 | and a contributing editor at Popular Science. |
| 1:49.7 | He's the author of Cybersecurity and cyber war. |
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