Joint Statement from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security Assessing the Impact of Foreign Interference During the 2020 U.S. Elections
No Evidence Found that a Foreign Government Manipulation
For the record I’ve never falsely purported to be in our Intelligence Community because that would be incredibly unethical and dishonest. That said I am simply providing you with both reports - so you have the facts to help you formulate an “informed opinion” - also in my opinion the ODNI report is far more robust and you should take the time to read pages 7 thru 11 as it provides far more detailed information about Russia’s foreign influence campaign to denigrate then candidate Biden
NEWLY RELEASED:
DOJ-OPA DHS -Joint Statement 1 and 5 page DOJ & DHS Report as to Key Findings2
”The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), released today key findings and recommendations from a joint report to the President issued last month on the impact of foreign governments and their agents on the security and integrity of the 2020 U.S. federal elections”
….investigated multiple public claims that one or more foreign governments owned, directed or controlled election infrastructure used in the 2020 federal elections; implemented a scheme to manipulate election infrastructure; or tallied, changed or otherwise manipulated vote counts. The Departments found that those claims were not credible”
As the report highlights; Russian, Chinese, and Iranian government-affiliated actors materially impacted the security of certain networks during the 2020 federal elections. The Departments found no evidence that any foreign government-affiliated actor manipulated election results or otherwise compromised the integrity of the 2020 federal elections.
The DOJ and DHS Report concludes with the following recommendations to further ensure the integrity of our electoral process;
“Implementing defensive measures such as firewalls, up-to-date patching, and multifactor authentication, pre-election testing of voting equipment, federal and state certification of such equipment, cybersecurity training for government personnel, and separation of election-specific systems from other computer networks all helped to protect the integrity of infrastructure. Implementing redundancy measures like paper pollbooks backups, auditable ballots, and post-election audits ensures election officials could limit the impact of a cyber incident with minimal disruption to voting…”
and now the ODNI REPORT
Foreign Threats to the 2020 U.S. Federal Elections
Pursuant to the Intelligence Authorization Act, Section 5304(c)(3), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence today released the declassified Intelligence Community assessment of foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. federal elections.
It is the Key Judgement 2 that is really worth reading - because the ODNI explicitly states Putin (once again) Authorized Efforts to malign then presidential candidate Joe Biden
The ODNI report further expounds on their Key Judgment 2 as it relates to Putin and more broadly the Russian Government activities - specifically pages 7 thru 10 aggregate the steps Russian took - both in terms of messaging - remarkable the “close ties” of Russian Agents like Derkach, OANN, Fox News, Trump and the Trump campaign is not surprising but it is infuriating
Should you be skeptical if I am providing you with authentic and original documents, see ODNI’s Tweet below - yes the ODNI 15 page report3 is “in addition to”4 the joint DOJ and DHS Report
Well that’s kind of interesting - Konstantin V. Kilimnik and Andrii Leonidovych Derkach - the close associates of Donald Trump - I’m going with Rudy Giuliani et al - but the fact remains that during the last stretch of the 2020 presidential election - Trump & his surrogates closely mirrored the same “message” as Putin & other Russian Government groups. Questioning not just the integrity of our electoral process but working with our known adversary to undermine our Democracy
I have to get back to my actual J-O-B but I wanted to make sure my readers had access to both Intelligence Reports.
Department of Justice OPA and DHS Joint Press Release - regarding the 2020 Election https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/joint-statement-departments-justice-and-homeland-security-assessing-impact-foreign
DOJ & DHS Five Page Report - https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1376761/download
ODNI 15 page Report: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-declass-16MAR21.pdf
Thank you File.
Thank you for taking the time for all this. I and many others truly appreciate your work. Have a great day..😀