FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement is not seeing ongoing efforts by Russia to interfere in America's election infrastructure. Wray told the House Judiciary Committee that
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Chris Wray said Wednesday that Russia is engaged in “information warfare” heading into the 2020 presidential election, though he said law enforcement is not seeing ongoing efforts by Russia to interfere in America's election infrastructure.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security Department are on alert for possible election-related instructions like those that occurred in 2016, when Russians hacked emails belonging to the Democratic campaign of nominee Hillary Clinton and probed local election systems for vulnerabilities. But, Wray said Wednesday, “I don't think we've seen any ongoing efforts to target election infrastructure like we did in 2016.
“You see the Russians taking opposite sides of an issue," Wray said. “They take both sides and then they spin it up so they pit us against each other." Nadler then said that he assumed it was correct that neither Trump nor Barr nor other administration officials had asked for improper political investigations. Wray answered: “No one has asked me to open an investigation based on anything other than facts, the law and proper predication."
The watchdog report identified what it said were significant errors in applications to eavesdrop on Page, including omitting critical information that cut against the FBI’s original premise that Page was a Russian agent — something he repeatedly denied. The report also alleged that an FBI lawyer had doctored an email used in connection with one of the applications.
The FBI did that last month, laying out a series of changes designed to ensure warrant applications are more closely scrutinized before being submitted for a judge’s approval and that they contain accurate information about the reliability and potential bias of sources whom agents rely on.
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