‘Frozen by paralysis of analysis’: Obama administration botched response to election meddling from R

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‘Frozen by paralysis of analysis’: Obama administration botched response to election meddling from Russia, senators say

by Jerry Dunleavy

February 06, 2020 11:01 AM
 
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a bipartisan report on Thursday, criticizing the Obama administration for being unprepared to combat Russia’s election interference in 2016 and for fumbling the response.

The committee’s 54-page heavily redacted report, the third installment in the committee’s investigation into the Kremlin’s foreign influence campaign in 2016, “found the U.S. government was not well-postured to counter Russian election interference activity with a full range of readily-available policy options.”

The report said that, while high-level warnings were delivered to Russian officials, “those warnings may or may not have tempered Moscow’s activity” and “Russia continued disseminating stolen emails, conducting social media-based influence operations, and working to access state voting infrastructure through Election Day 2016.”

Republican Chairman Richard Burr of North Carolina said, “After discovering the existence, if not the full scope, of Russia’s election interference efforts in late-2016, the Obama administration struggled to determine the appropriate response. Frozen by ‘paralysis of analysis,’ hamstrung by constraints both real and perceived, Obama officials debated courses of action without truly taking one.”

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/frozen-by-paralysis-of-analysis-obama-administration-botched-response-to-election-meddling-from-russia-senators-say

[PeteS in CA]

Maybe if Obama didn't have so many people wasting time on the bogus Trump-Russia delusion .....