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Report reveals Russian media influence
Intelligence reports were
revealed to the public about
Russian election involvement.
Sami Leung
Asst. News Editor
@LALoyolan
A report coordinated among the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the
National Security Agency (NSA) concluded
that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin,
ordered a covert campaign to influence the
American election in Donald Trump's favor.
A declassified intelligence report detailing
the investigation into Russia’s involvement
in the 2016 presidential election has been
released to the public as of Jan. 6. A report on
a collection of unverified memos pertaining
to Donald Trump and Russian operatives’
close contact was subsequently released on
Jan. 10.
According to the New York Times, the
Russian teams hacked emails, created an
internet ‘troll’ persona to leak the emails,
and spread stories harmful to Hillary Clinton
through an international propaganda outlet
known as Russia Today (RT) starting in
March 2016.
“RT’s coverage of Secretary Hillary C linton
throughout the U.S. presidential campaign
was consistently negative and focused on her
leaked emails and accused her of corruption,
poor physical and mental health, and ties to
Islamic extremism,” the report stated.
The campaign also sought to undermine
Americans’ faith in democracy and the
election process.
“A number of Republicans [continue]
not to be too concerned about it as if it’s
not something we should take seriously,”
LMU political science professor Liza Taylor
said. “Normally, that would be something
Republicans would care about, but I think
because it’s working in the favor of then-
current president-elect, there’s less concern
about something that should be completely
bipartisan — the fact that any sort of foreign
power would be meddling in our election
process.”
The report notes that the influence of
the campaign “represented a significant
escalation in directness, level of activity
and scope of effort compared to previous
operations aimed at U.S. elections.”
President-elect Donald Trump was
briefed on the evidence in a meeting with
the directors of the NSA, CIA and the FBI,
during which he described the meeting
as “constructive” and stated that the
U.S. needed to aggressively combat the
cyberattacks.
However, he has also denied that Russian
cyberattacks had any effect on the election,
according to the L.A. Times. He later added
in an interview with the New York Times that
the report and focus on Russian influence
was a “political witch hunt” by his political
opponents.
Although the report did stress its
“intellectually rigorous” analysis of
information drawn from human and
technological sources, it failed to mention
exactly how the agencies had collected
their data or came to their conclusions, thus
leaving it open to attack by allies of Donald
Trump.
The report also asserted that the emails
taken by Russian intelligence from the
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
were then relayed to Wikileaks’ Editor -in-
Chief Julien Assange for publishing.
Assange adamantly denies that his sources
for information were from a member of any
government or state parties. He went on
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I Water crisis in Flint, Michigan
I intensifies; President Barack
Obama declares a federal state of
emergency
I Zika virus makes its way to the
I United States
Presidential primaries begins in
Iowa
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia dies, leaving a space open
for a new Supreme Court Justice
President Obama nominates Merrick
Garland for the Supreme Court
President Obama becomes the first
president in 90 years to visit Cuba
Members of the Women's U.S.
soccer team announce in a press
release that they have filed a suit
with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission for being
paid four times less than the players
on the Men's U.S. soccer team.
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April 21
May 23
May 27
June 12
June 24
July 5
July 6
July 7
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"Panama Papers" are leaked from
I a Panama-based law firm
I Earthquake in Ecuador kills at
| least 350 people and injures
thousands
I Secretary of the Treasury Jacob
Lew decides to put Harriet
Tubman on the $20 bill
I Music legend Prince dies of opioid
I overdose
I Officer Edward Nero is found not
I guilty for the death of Freddie Gray
President Obama visits Hiroshima
Shooting at Pulse Nightclub in
Orlando, Florida; at least 49 people
are killed and 53 are injured
The United Kingdom votes to
leave the European Union
Alton Sterling is fatally shot by two
police officers in Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
Philando Castille is fatally shot by a
police officer in St. Anthony, Minnesota
Five police officers are shot in Dallas,
Texas by Micah Xavier Johnson at a
peaceful protest
July 14
Aug. 21
Sept. 4
Sept. 17
Oct. 28
Nov. 8
Nov. 25
Dec. 2
Dec. 4
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Dec. 15
Dec. 27
Dec. 28
A terrorist attack on Bastille Day
kills 84, injures at least 300 in
Nice, France
Federal Judge Reed O'Connor
rules against President Obama's
transgender bathroom regulations
Mother Teresa is canonized a saint
Stabbing occurs at a mall in St.
Cloud, Minnesota, killing nine
people
141 people are arrested at a Dakota
Access Pipeline Protest
Donald Trump wins U.S.
Presidential Election
Fidel Castro dies
More than 40 people die in a
warehouse fire in Oakland,
California, and 25 people are still
unaccounted for
Army Corps of Engineers
announces stoppage of Dakota
Access Pipeline
Dylann Roof is found guilty of
killing nine black people during a
Bible study
Agreement is reached to end
fighting in Aleppo, where the
Syrian government has claimed to
have taken control of the city
Actresses Carrie Fisher and
Debbie Reynolds pass away
Information compiled by Bri Ortiz, News Editor. Graphic by
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