“This Russian malfeasance is not confined to us, but extends to our allies, our alliances and to democratic institutions around the world. “We are deeply concerned by Russian efforts to undermine, interfere with, and even influence the outcome of our recent election,” the Democrats wrote. election.īut officials are still investigating whether the Kremlin wanted to help elect Donald Trump, or simply was seeking to sow discontent in the U.S.
The Obama administration in October took the unprecedented step of publicly blaming senior Moscow officials for orchestrating a digital campaign to interfere with the U.S. Adam Smith (Wash.), the ranking member on the Armed Services panel. Juan Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, The Failure of Presidential Democracy (Bal. Bennie Thompson (Miss.), the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee and Rep. mocracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (New York Cambridge. Eliot Engel (N.Y.), the ranking member on Foreign Affairs Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), the Judiciary panel’s top Democrat Rep. The cyber security firm hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate the theft of its emails determined earlier this year the hacking came from the Fancy Bear group, believed to be. Adam Schiff (Calif.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. In addition to Hoyer and Cummings, five other Democratic committee leaders signed onto the memo: Rep. They also pressed the White House for details on the WikiLeaks dump of emails from top political operatives and the “fake news stories produced and distributed with the intent to mislead American voters.” In the letter to the president, the group requested a classified briefing on the suspected Russian hacks that felled political organizations like the Democratic National Committee. EDT The Trump administration is moving toward returning two Russian compounds that were vacated and shut down in December 2016. There were no further immediate details on the bill.Īnd in a letter sent on Tuesday, a group of top Democrats - led by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) - urged the Obama administration to brief Congress on Russian efforts to alter the presidential race. Swalwell, the top Democrat on the Intelligence panel’s CIA Subcommittee, and Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, will reveal their legislation at an afternoon press conference Wednesday. The tweet was accompanied by a picture of a duck overlaid with text reading, 'LAME.' It characterized the diplomats’ expulsion as a 'Cold War deja vu.' Russian Embassy, UK (RussianEmbassy.
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