2020-08-09 00:00:00, Opinion by Samantha Vinograd, CNN
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That's the key takeaway from the updated assessment of the election threat landscape by the US intelligence community's top election security official.
While all countries should be called out for election interference — including Russia, China, and Iran — we need to have our priorities straight when it comes to helping Americans identify the relative scale and scope of these threats.
As House Intel Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said,"The IC needs to distinguish between the intentions of these foreign powers and the actions of the foreign powers.
Trump not only failed to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin's attacks on democracy — he has helped them by doing things like denying Russian interference in the 2016 election, spreading disinformation and divisions, undermining our institutions and, a whole number of other things that seem to belong in Putin's playbook for how to degrade US democracy.
The very intelligence aimed at safeguarding US elections could become so politicized that it runs the risk of helping foreign influence operations.
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