Many of the agents will work on the Foreign Influence Task Force, a group of cyber, counterintelligence and criminal experts. Initially formed on a temporary basis before the midterm elections, officials have made the task force permanent
The Department of Homeland Security made its midterm election task forces permanent, folding them into an election security initiative at their National Risk Management Center. The National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command have also expanded and made permanent their joint task force aimed at identifying, and stopping, Russian malign influence, officials said.
Trump’s continued hostility toward discussing Moscow’s malign influence campaigns, as well as his broader attitude toward Putin and Russia, puzzles many national security experts. “What motivates Trump is still a mystery,” Weiss said. “Every time he talks about this is so out of sync with the way Republicans, or Democrats, talk.”
The aftermath of the 2016 election and Russia’s attempts to try to influence the American government illustrates the dangers of a loose, ad hoc approach to foreign policy that Trump embraced during the transition, and still favours to a degree, former national security officials said.“If you can be led by the nose by foreign governments, that is the simplest definition of what a successful influence operation looks like,” Weiss said.
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