Russia Is ‘Keyboard Click’ From Major Election Hack, Coats Warns
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Russian efforts to interfere in upcoming U.S. midterm elections have yet to reach the intensity of the Kremlin’s campaign to disrupt the 2016 presidential vote, but they’re only “a keyboard click away” from a more serious attack, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said.
“We have not seen that kind of robust campaign from them so far,” Coats said in a briefing at the White House on Thursday.