Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Fox Fellow Clint Watts’ Senate Testimony Quoted in Huffington Post

Fox Fellow Clint Watts’ Senate Testimony Quoted in Huffington Post

Fox Fellow Clint Watts’ Senate Testimony Quoted in Huffington Post


In March testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, former FBI agent Clint Watts explained that the Trump team and Moscow-linked media, including the site Wikileaks, spent months amplifying each other’s sharing of false information and conspiracy theories, helping the Kremlin get more bang for its buck.

“Part of the reason active measures [by Russia] have worked in this U.S. election is because the commander-in-chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,” Watts said. He described Trump’s Oct. 11 promotion of a fake news reportpublished on Russia’s Sputnik News, and how former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort pushed a different false story that Watts traced back to Russian sources.

“He denies the intel from the United States. He claims that the election could be rigged,” Watts said. “They parrot the same lines.”

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