Top Election Security Executive Shelby Pierson on Past, Present and Future Threats

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Shelby Pierson, a career intelligence official recently named the Intelligence Community Election Threats Executive within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Pierson details past, present and future election security threats facing the United States, and explains how the intelligence community has partnered with other government agencies to boost visibility into foreign interference efforts. She explains how the threat landscape has broadened since 2016, and tells Morell what new vectors foreign adversaries may consider using in 2020. Pierson also offers new insights into Russia’s systematic efforts to interfere in the 2016 and 2018 midterm elections. This is the latest installment of a continuing series on "Leadership of the IC," featuring currently-serving senior leadership within the U.S. intelligence community.

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0:35.3	Your mission is ours.
0:37.3	As far as you know, did any other country in 2016 interfere in our elections?
0:42.9	Country seek to influence each other all the time.
0:45.7	And when it becomes particularly problematic is when it's coercive, when it's illegal.
0:52.6	And we do not assess that any other country influenced the United States election in 2016
0:57.1	on the scale of what the Russians did.
0:58.6	Not Ukraine, not anybody else.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:01.6	2020.
1:04.3	What do you anticipate in terms of the threat?
1:06.7	We see a more complicated threat landscape.
1:09.6	This is not just a Russia-only problem.
1:12.8	Obviously, the tenor of our bilateral relationships with countries worldwide is a factor in terms
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