Trump’s National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’
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Trump’s National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible’
The Trump campaign did nothing wrong — no collusion!" He made no mention of Russia as a "revisionist power," the description used in his own National Security Strategy, or of the elaborate $1.2 million-a-month effort
that the indictment indicated Russia’s Internet Research Agency spent in an effort to discredit the election system and ultimately to support his candidacy.
" He added, "The allegations being mounted against us are simply fantasies." Mr. Kislyak, who has been caught up in the investigation because of meetings with Trump campaign officials during his time as ambassador, went on to cite a study, which he said he was keeping in his briefcase,
that proved the "main source of computer attacks in the world is not Russia. that I am not sure I can trust American law enforcement to be the most truthful source against Russians.
17, 2018
MUNICH — Just hours after the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians in what it charged was a broad conspiracy to alter the 2016 election, President Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, accused Moscow of engaging in a campaign of "disinformation, subversion
and espionage" that he said Washington would continue to expose.
The evidence of a Russian effort to interfere in the election "is now incontrovertible," General McMaster said at the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting of European
and American diplomats and security experts, including several senior Russian officials.
He said the United States would retaliate, but did not say how, adding "we will not telegraph these punches." Mr. Joyce is no newcomer to offensive cyberoperations;
previously he ran the Tailored Access Operations unit of the National Security Agency, overseeing American cyberaction against other counties.
Vice President Mike Pence, speaking this past week in Washington, misstated American intelligence conclusions about the election hacking, arguing "it is the universal conclusion of our intelligence communities
that none of those efforts had any effect on the outcome of the 2016 election." The intelligence chiefs have said they have not, and cannot, reach such a conclusion.
The Trump campaign did nothing wrong — no collusion!" He made no mention of Russia as a "revisionist power," the description used in his own National Security Strategy, or of the elaborate $1.2 million-a-month effort
that the indictment indicated Russia’s Internet Research Agency spent in an effort to discredit the election system and ultimately to support his candidacy.
" He added, "The allegations being mounted against us are simply fantasies." Mr. Kislyak, who has been caught up in the investigation because of meetings with Trump campaign officials during his time as ambassador, went on to cite a study, which he said he was keeping in his briefcase,
that proved the "main source of computer attacks in the world is not Russia. that I am not sure I can trust American law enforcement to be the most truthful source against Russians.
17, 2018
MUNICH — Just hours after the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians in what it charged was a broad conspiracy to alter the 2016 election, President Trump’s national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, accused Moscow of engaging in a campaign of "disinformation, subversion
and espionage" that he said Washington would continue to expose.
The evidence of a Russian effort to interfere in the election "is now incontrovertible," General McMaster said at the Munich Security Conference, an annual meeting of European
and American diplomats and security experts, including several senior Russian officials.
He said the United States would retaliate, but did not say how, adding "we will not telegraph these punches." Mr. Joyce is no newcomer to offensive cyberoperations;
previously he ran the Tailored Access Operations unit of the National Security Agency, overseeing American cyberaction against other counties.
Vice President Mike Pence, speaking this past week in Washington, misstated American intelligence conclusions about the election hacking, arguing "it is the universal conclusion of our intelligence communities
that none of those efforts had any effect on the outcome of the 2016 election." The intelligence chiefs have said they have not, and cannot, reach such a conclusion.