How Much Will America's Cyber Experts Tell the American Public?

When I used a free web host for my websites a decade ago, China was cutting its teeth in cybercrime by messing with Americans' host servers. There were regular attacks, and they were coming from a military college.

In 2016, Russia was messing with Americans' minds, intensifying the country's divisions and backing Donald Trump's candidacy as best they could. In his 2019 report, Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that Russian interference was "sweeping and systematic" and "violated U.S. criminal law."

Russia and China haven't stopped trying to harm the United States, and Russia is once again backing Donald Trump's campaign. The House and, on Monday, the Senate were briefed on cybercrimes in classified meetings with senior intelligence officials. Monday's meeting was about campaign meddling and campaign security.

Russia is again churning out disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Foreign powers are manipulating American voters to help Donald Trump.

Democrats say that Russia has also helped the Senate's Republicans to investigate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who had a five-year stint on the board of Ukraine's biggest natural gas producer. Donald Trump himself pressured Ukraine to aid the investigation, even holding up aid money.

According to Politico, Ukrainians and a Russian lawmaker have also been passing along tidbits of information that are favorable to Donald Trump and harmful to Joe Biden.

Politico also says that "Democrats have been openly pressuring the Trump administration to be more specific about Russia’s interference operation, which lawmakers say is more sophisticated than it was in 2016."

Democrats and Republicans both want more of the foreign nations' cybercrimes to become public, but Democrats have more to gain from disclosures to the public.

How much will the National Intelligence people divulge? We don't know. We also don't know how well and completely all that intelligence work has been carried out.

It's all part of a world of shadows played out in one of the deepest, hottest circles of hell on earth.


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Should Americans know specifically how Russia has targeted the U.S. elections? Should they know where China focuses its cyberintelligence? Do you think that Trump and the Republican party have been successful in using the Russians to their own advantage?

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/2020-intel-election-interference-391047 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hunter-biden-ukraine/what-hunter-biden-did-on-the-board-of-ukrainian-energy-company-burisma-idUSKBN1WX1P7