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How And Why Russia Interferes In Elections

The goal of Russia's interference efforts isn't just to win an election, former FBI agent Clint Watts says. It's also to "demoralize [and] subvert the U.S. population."
A woman casts her vote at a polling station inside the Alhambra Fire Department in Alhambra, Calif., on June 5, 2018 as Californians go to the polls to vote in primary elections. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images)

Russia is continuing to interfere in U.S. elections, and the question should be what the U.S. is doing about it, former FBI agent Clint Watts says.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young talks with Watts (), a cybersecurity analyst with the Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of the book “Messing with the Enemy,” about strategies Russia employed to interfere in the 2016 election and what Russia hopes to achieve.

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