Russia interfered in the UK election and is trying to steal Covid research

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That's a pretty big fukking story.

Russia is at a serious crossroads.

The rest of the world is PISSED right now.

The only thing separating them from stone age sanctions is the USA and Trump.

More than enough motivation for them to try to interfere in November.
 
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1. Steal the research

2. Use what you know to sow discord among Western Nations

3. ????

4. Profit


(See 2016 for prior success)
 
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As per the Guardian, the report is out, sounds like the UK government is too shook to act...

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British government and British intelligence failed to prepare or conduct any proper assessment of Kremlin attempts to interfere with the 2016 Brexit referendum, according to the long-delayed Russia report.

The damning conclusion is contained within the 50-page document from parliament’s intelligence and security committee, which said ministers “had not seen or sought evidence of successful interference in UK democratic processes”.

The committee, which scrutinises the work of Britain’s spy agencies, said: “We have not been provided with any post-referendum assessment of Russian attempts at interference” – and contrasted the response with that of the US.

“This situation is in stark contrast to the US handling of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, where an intelligence community assessment was produced within two months of the vote, with an unclassified summary being made public.”

Committee members said they could not definitively conclude whether the Kremlin had or had not successfully interfered in the Brexit vote because no effort had been made to find out.

“Even if the conclusion of any such assessment were that there was minimal interference, this would nonetheless represent a helpful reassurance to the public that theUK’s democratic processes had remained relatively safe,” the report added.

The cross party committee noted that publicly available studies have pointed to “the preponderance of pro-Brexit or anti-EU stories” on the Russia Today and Sputnik TV channels at the time of the vote and “the use of ‘bots’ and ‘trolls’” on Twitter, as evidence of Russian attempt to influence the process.

But committee members complained that when they asked for written evidence from MI5 at the start of their inquiry, the domestic spy agency “initially provided just six lines of text” – prompting criticism from the committee.

It accused MI5 of operating with “extreme caution

amongst the intelligence and security Agencies at the

thought that they might have any role in relation to the UK’s democratic processes, and

particularly one as contentious as the EU referendum. We repeat that this attitude is illogical;

this is about the protection of the process and mechanism from hostile state interference,

which should fall to our intelligence and security Agencies.

The keenly anticipated document was completed last October, but was sat on by Boris Johnson before the general election and only declassified and cleared for release by the prime minister in December.

It could not be released until No 10 had nominated Conservative members to the committee, although its nominee for chair Chris Grayling was ambushed by opposition members who voted instead for Julian Lewis.

Downing Street is expected to publish its own response shortly.
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