That sheepish admission and others were about the only candid moments that the hearing produced, as it swung from
Russian intelligence operations to Islamic extremists and even to a predictably useless interlude from Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who squandered his time with a distracting line of questioning that accused the companies of partisanship.
Not exact matches
The U.S. considers
Russian diplomats to be undeclared spies, conducting
intelligence operations under the guise of being embassy staff.
Russian operatives (usually the military
intelligence) steal secrets, but the KGB and its successors also run influence
operations.
«While the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA's analysis of Russian hacking operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency - strong U.S. intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks..
Intelligence (ODNI) does not dispute the CIA's analysis of
Russian hacking
operations, it has not endorsed their assessment because of a lack of conclusive evidence that Moscow intended to boost Trump over Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, The position of the ODNI, which oversees the 17 agency - strong U.S.
intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks..
intelligence community, could press his assertion that no evidence implicates Russia in the cyber attacks...» 17!
A
Russian intelligence source claimed the FSB had new information which could cast light on who was behind the elaborate
operation.
The United States is still reeling from the effects of the 2016 presidential election, which the American
intelligence community says was disrupted by
Russian hacking and information influence
operations.
«The 2018 U.S. midterm elections are a potential target for
Russian influence
operations,» Director of National
Intelligence Dan Coats warned in written testimony prepared for the Senate
Intelligence Committee's Tuesday hearing.
«The GRU is used for both tactical
intelligence collection in the battlefield in support of
Russian military
operations and also strategic active measures or psychological warfare overseas,» the exec told The Washington Post.
Earlier this week, reports surfaced that the Hong Kong - based, Genesis Engineering intends to move their cryptocurrency
operations and artificial
intelligence laboratory to the
Russian island, Russky.