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Just in time for Midterms.
Trump didn't tell DNI Dan Coats of Putin's upcoming visit to Washington in advance of the twitter announcement. DNI Coats – a Trump appointee – literally found out from twitter via @mitchellreports, live onstage at the #AspenSecurity.
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ICYMI: Trump didn't inform DNI Dan Coats in advance of his Oval Office meeting with Russian envoys Lavrov & Kislyak last May.
Trump keep every interaction he has with Russia a secret from his OWN, hand-picked intelligence chiefs. So obvious why.
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Trump keep every interaction he has with Russia a secret from his OWN, hand-picked intelligence chiefs. So obvious why.
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Asked why he issued that statement in response to Trump's siding with Putin in Helsinki, DNI Dan Coats says: "I was just doing my job...I believed I needed to correct the record...I wish he had made a different statement but I think that, now, has been clarified." #AspenSecurity
More Coats: "The very pillar of democracy is the ability to have confidence that your leaders were elected legitimately." #AspenSecurity
Coats on Trump/Putin private meeting: "I don't know what happened in that meeting...I would've suggested [it be done] a different way, but that's not my call." Coats adds that "that risk is always there," when asked whether the Russians may have recorded the meeting.
.@mitchellreports asks DNI dan coats why he issued a statement on interference on monday that contradicted trump: “i was just doing my job … it was important to take that stand.” #aspensecurity
COATS says he wishes TRUMP had made a different statement re: russia.
given "what we had assessed and reassessed and reassessed and carefully gone over still stands...it was important to take that stand on behalf of the IC and on behalf of the american people.” #aspensecurity
given "what we had assessed and reassessed and reassessed and carefully gone over still stands...it was important to take that stand on behalf of the IC and on behalf of the american people.” #aspensecurity
“could is not a definitive word here. […] it’s undeniable that the russians are taking a lead on this. they are the ones that are trying to undermine our basic values & divide us” -COATS at #aspensecurity
“I was just doing my job” -DNI Coats to @mitchellreports on his Russia statement Monday #AspenSecurity
“Obviously I had wished he made a different statement,” Coats says. But says it has been “clarified.”
Coats says the U.S. needs to be “relentless” in calling out the Russians for doing what they’re doing #AspenSecurity
"While we see Russians continuing to attempt to influence and undermine our democracy, we’re not seeing the targeting of the actual state and local elections systems that we saw in 2016 right now" -- Jeanette Manfra, assistant DHS sec for cybersecurity #AspenSecurity
NOTED: Microsoft exec says company discovered a fake domain established for purpose of phishing attack against three candidates in midterm elections.
Microsoft's Tom Burt wouldn't ID the targeted campaigns. But said: "They were all people who, because of their positions, might have been interesting targets from an espionage standpoint as well as an election disruption standpoint."
FBI Director Christopher Wray tells @LesterHoltNBC:
"My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election."
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"My view has not changed, which is that Russia attempted to interfere with the last election."
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FBI Director Wray to @LesterHoltNBC: "I do not believe Special Counsel Mueller is on a witch hunt. I think it's a professional investigation."
