Sentences with phrase «for election meddling»

But to ensure «trust, transparency and integrity» of the electoral process, the existing legislation needs to be reviewed to accommodate harsh penalties for election meddling through the deployment of counter-technology.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

Mueller's detailed charges against Russian nationals and companies for election meddling aimed in part at trying to boost Trump's candidacy said they cooperated with «unwitting» campaign staffers and outside advisers.

Not exact matches

The president said it was a «terrible mistake» for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

In an interview with Axios's Mike Allen on Thursday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the social network owes America an apology for its role in enabling Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Last Thursday, moreover, both The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that Flynn had spoken with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, about the US economic sanctions on Russia before Trump was sworn in — including at least one call on the day President Barack Obama imposed new penalties on Russia for its election - related meddling.

Trump, in fits and starts, has indicated his support for the broad federal investigation of Russian meddling, but he has more often bristled at the notion that Kremlin operatives were working on his behalf or that his campaign coordinated with Russia to meddle in the election.

Comey, for one, suggested that the Flynn investigation, if dropped, most likely would not alter the course of the FBI's larger investigation into Russia's election meddling and whether the Trump campaign had a role in it.

Russia came under fire for annexing Crimea in southern Ukraine and is accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- For years, President Donald Trump pushed back against the idea of election meddling, dismissing it as a hoax and an affront to the legitimacy of his victory.

«It doesn't do much as far as swinging the pendulum one way or the other, but what it does is directly call out Russia for meddling in the election cycle, which is a pretty bold statement from the US that hasn't been made in the past,» he said.

Though the Trump White House has acknowledged that Russia meddled — while maintaining that it was not to help Trump and did not have an effect on the election's outcome — it has so far fallen short of making a specific statement or calling out Russia for its aggression.

Trump openly questioned the veracity of the US intelligence community's findings for weeks before conceding that Russia indeed meddled in the election.

«Finally, Liddle» Adam B. Schiff, the leakin» monster of no control, is now blaming the Obama Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 Election,» Trump tweeted early Sunday morning.

The president suggested Saturday that the indictments proved he or his campaign couldn't have been involved in a Russian effort to meddle in an election because the effort began in 2014, which was at least six months before he would announce his bid for the presidency in June 2015.

Whether we're talking about the recent Uber revelation, or the world's cyber-elite meddling in elections, stealing data with impunity and infiltrating power grids — one change in particular seems like a safe bet: the rise of chief information security officer, or CISO for short.

Washington blacklisted Rusal and its billionaire major shareholder Oleg Deripaska, along with some other Russian businessmen, for suspected meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other alleged «malign activity».

There has been speculation about whether any collusion occurred that involved a promise to lift sanctions in exchange for Russia's meddling in the US presidential election, which some argue may have helped Trump win.

At the time of his firing, Comey was handling the bureau's investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to meddle in the 2016 election, creating a firestorm of controversy for the Trump administration.

By the time it received Steele's dossier in September 2016, the FBI had already been investigating Russia's election meddling for two months and had begun looking into possible ties between Trump campaign officials — like Page — and Russian actors.

The slip - up came after Democrats in both chambers called for extensive investigations into Flynn's relationship with Russia, as well as the country's meddling in the 2016 election.

Lynch leaves office following a nearly two - year tenure marked by massacres carried out by violent extremists, including the shootings at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida; persistent hacking from overseas, including Russian government efforts to meddle in the U.S. presidential election; and an election - season investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server that entangled the Justice Department in presidential politics and led to criticism for her ill - timed meeting on an airport tarmac with former President Bill Clinton.

Washington imposed sweeping sanctions on some of Russia's biggest companies and businessmen on April 6 to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Russia's use of the platform to meddle in U.S. elections, a regulatory investigation that could result in fines of hundreds of millions of dollars against the company for privacy violations, and the Cambridge Analytica episode are all topmost concerns.

The Justice Department on Friday handed down indictments to 13 Russian people and three Russian companies for meddling in United States political and election processes, the latest item in a litany of evidence that Russia, well, did it.

And what innocent explanation can there be for Trump's flaccid response to Russia's meddling in our supposedly democratic elections?

The indictment of 13 Russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has reignited the debate on whether Facebook and other social - media giants are a threat to democracy.

That centralizes the potential for and magnitude of abuse, with Big Data used to discriminate against groups, steer vulnerable people to financial scams, and meddle in U.S. elections.

The U.S. just levied fresh sanctions against the Eastern European country for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, and early last week President Donald Trump warned Russia that the U.S. military could soon strike its ally Syria in response to its use of chemical weapons — a promise he kept Friday evening.

Attorneys for the three social media giants testified before the House and Senate intelligence committees last Nov. 1 about how Russia exploited their platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

March 14: The Federal Election Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 eElection Commission said it would start writing new disclosure rules for online ads in response to revelations Russian interests bought content on Facebook and other platforms in an attempt to meddle with the 2016 electionelection.

The company initially claimed credit for helping elect Trump, but Nix also sought to portray the firm's role as minimal amid investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

To apologize for Facebook's missteps, reassure Congress that Facebook intends to stop foreign powers from using its service to meddle in American elections and detail the company's plans to better protect its users» privacy.

Rosenstein was asked about investigations that go on for months or even years; if there is a precedent on how long an investigation should last and when would the American people get to know the results of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election that has been underway since May of 2017.

(Perhaps the most unsatisfactory aspect of Comey's book, from the perspective of the left, is his explanation for this poor, ill - timed decision; but it's telling that Republicans are so interested in one form of election meddling but not another.)

The United States imposed major new sanctions against Russia on Friday, striking at senior Russian officials and some of the country's biggest companies in one of Washington's most aggressive moves to punish Moscow for its alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and other «malign activity».

«Meddling in elections within the U.S., or any other nation for that matter, by another country is the new norm and will continue for as long as there is a chance of success,» Lee Munson, security researcher at Comparitech, told Newsweek.

Now Russia meddles in our elections helping to divide our nation and saddling our country with a loser for a leader.

McCabe claimed he was targeted for being a witness into whether Trump tried to obstruct the probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The White House and its allies are scrambling for ways to offset potential damage from fired FBI Director James Comey's highly anticipated congressional testimony, an appearance that could expose new details about his discussions with Trump about the federal investigation into Russia's election meddling.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for Congress to «respond forcefully» to Trump's threats to fire Mueller amid growing tension over the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

President Trump, in a series of angry and defiant tweets this morning, sought to shift the blame to Democrats for Russia's virtual war to meddle in the 2016 election, saying that President Barack Obama had not done enough to stop the interference and denying that he had ever suggested that Moscow might not have been involved.

The U.S. Senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn for documents related to the panel's investigation into Russia's election meddling.

But Klobuchar also brought a message for party activists in attendance who might want to see more Democrats talking about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, potential ties to President Donald Trump, and whatever presidential Twitter fight may be leading headlines that day.

The senator has called for an investigation into Russia's meddling into the 2016 presidential election that included hacking the Democratic National Committee and the emails of some Hillary Clinton campaign staffers.

President Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to thank Buffalo area political consultant Michael R. Caputo for testifying before the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians.

The fact that the president wants a better working relationship with Putin doesn't mean he's letting the Kremlin go unpunished for Election Day meddling, chief of staff Reince Priebus insisted.

Trump took to Twitter yesterday morning to thank Buffalo area political consultant Michael Caputo for testifying before the House Intelligence Committee investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians.

We meddle in elections all over the world and have been doing so for 70 years — probably even longer.

Flynn asked Russia to refrain from «escalating the situation in response» to sanctions that then - President Obama had imposed that day on Russia for meddling in the US election.