Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts FPRI Senior Fellow Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post on Russia
FPRI Senior Fellow Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post on Russia

FPRI Senior Fellow Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post on Russia

FPRI Senior Fellow Clint Watts Quoted in The Washington Post on Russia


Following his extraordinary testimony last week, former FBI special agent Clint Watts appeared on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. This exchange, in which he explained Russia’s “active measures” during the 2016 campaign, was eye-popping:

CLINT WATTS:

What they want to do is use information as a weapon of warfare to undermine U.S. democracy, such that when we crumble from the inside out, we can’t take aggressive foreign policy or stop their foreign policy around the world. So the way they do that is by using what’s called a state-to-people and a people-to-people strategy. They’re going to bypass the U.S. government, go straight to our Democratic electorate, and try and undermine trust, create divisions, and foment chaos. . . .

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