Can We Protect the Integrity of US Elections?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 2, 2018

Laura Rosenberger, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, director of GMF’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, and former Clinton campaign foreign policy advisor, and Jamie Fly, senior fellow and director of Future of Geopolitics and Asia programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and former counselor for foreign and national security affairs to Senator Marco Rubio, talk about what the U.S. is doing to combat election interference from Russia and other foreign entities, and what more the U.S. needs, as the midterm elections are approaching and Facebook has identified a new disinformation campaign on its network.

.@jamiemfly: We need our political leaders to speak very clearly to American people about the threat to US elections. Unfortunately, Trump has been undermining that effort by tying it to Mueller investigation, collusion, etc.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 2, 2018

.@rosenbergerlm: This is not about politics. Though their hacking favored Trump in 2016, Russians are not interested in either side succeeding. The goal is to weaken American democracy.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 2, 2018

Caller: doesn't US do it too, wrt election interference? @jamiemfly responds that there are more or less equivalent historical examples, but that mostly in past. US is not doing exact same thing as Russia, provides training and assistance in foreign elections
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 2, 2018

Should the US do it to Russia in return?@rosenbergerlm: We should demonstrate there are costs to Russian cyber interference, in order to deter. But we do not want to engage in a race to the bottom, bc that ultimately helps Putin
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) August 2, 2018

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