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Official Russian Election Interference Thread

WakeForestRanger said:
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Mr. Rohrabacher may shrug off such scrutiny, but on the Foreign Affairs Committee, fellow Republicans have had enough. The committee’s chairman, Representative Ed Royce of California, pushed out Mr. Rohrabacher’s top committee aide, Paul Behrends, in July amid stories about his ties to pro-Russian lobbyists.

Mr. Rohrabacher, the chairman of an important Foreign Affairs subcommittee overseeing policy toward Europe, including Russia, has seen his power curtailed by fellow Republicans.

Since then, the chairman has taken a more hands-on approach to managing Mr. Rohrabacher’s subcommittee, a Republican House aide said. The chairman has not imposed a blanket ban on Mr. Rohrabacher’s travel or power to convene hearings, nor has he stripped Mr. Rohrabacher of his subcommittee chairmanship.

But Mr. Royce’s aides are closely scrutinizing his requests.

Mr. Rohrabacher has given conflicting assessments of his own status on the committee, most recently saying that he faced few limitations. But in an interview with The New York Times in late October, he acknowledged actions to curtail his activities and said they represented Republican regrets about leaving the gavel to someone who would not “just go along and get along with whatever the State Department wants.”
 
Sailor did you pull those articles off of Conservapedia?


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Byron York is the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, a Fox News contributor and the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
 
WakeForestRanger said:
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it's creating a portal that will allow its users to see what pages created by Russian actors they may have liked or followed.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobby...rs-see-russian-content-theyve-interacted-with
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Oh wow that's a step further than what the WSJ story reported.

Glad to see Facebook taking these steps. They are guilty of negligence but this type of transparency is badly needed to combat the issue.

I'm sure rubes won't use it or care but that's their loss.
 
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