Senate Dems Have Been Privately Investigating Russia's Europe Meddling Without Republican Help
BETSY WOODRUFF
SAM STEIN
https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-dems-have-been-privately-investigating-russias-europe-meddling-without-republican-help?via=desktop&source=Reddit
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Since last spring, Senate Democrats on the Foreign Relations Committee have been privately investigating Russian meddling in Eastern Europe without the assistance of committee Republicans.
Their efforts have been spearheaded by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), the committee’s ranking member, and have involved outreach to foreign diplomats from countries that have been targeted by the Kremlin. Lawmakers have been in touch with dozens of European embassies for help gathering information, aides confirmed to The Daily Beast, in an attempt to chart how the Kremlin has used a sophisticated combination of propaganda and voter suppression to advance its global interests.
Sean Bartlett, a Democratic spokesman for the committee, called the report a “major” effort to expose how Vladimir Putin’s government has kept “the Russian public supportive of wars abroad, while distracted from the regime’s criminality and corruption at home, and how, over the past decade-plus, it has adapted that toolkit and taken it global.”
The report, he added, “describes how these efforts are led by the government’s security services and buttressed by state-owned enterprises, Kremlin-aligned oligarchs, and Russian criminal groups that have effectively been nationalized by the state.” It traces how the operations “emanate out of Russia in concentric geographic circles: they began in Russia, expanded to its periphery and former satellites, and then into the rest of Europe and eventually, the United States.”
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