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Monday, August 20, 2018

Election security

Bolton, in Israel, suggests Brennan may have misused classified info, warns of meddling by four countries
National Security Adviser John Bolton, in his first trip to Israel as a Trump administration official, suggested ex-CIA Director John Brennan might have misused classifed info.Asked in the wide-ranging ABC interview about the threat of cyber-warfare ahead of the November elections, Bolton said the administration is monitoring threats from a variety of countries other than Russia.
"I can say definitively that it's a sufficient national security concern about Chinese, Iranian, and North Korean meddling," Bolton told Raddatz. "I'm not going to get into what I’ve seen or haven't seen, but I’m telling you, looking at 2018 election, we are concerned about four countries."
But Bolton said he plans to press his counterpart in Russia on the country's alleged election meddling in a meeting on Thursday.

"We'll keep raising it, and see what their response is," Bolton said. "But it's not a question of just speaking with Russians. At the president's direction, we had a briefing with myself and four heads of deptartments, to lay out in nonclassified environment, what we're doing. That includes both defensive and offensive cyber operations to protect integrity of election process."

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