The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning to accuse Russia of attempting to influence the outcome of America’s coming 2024 presidential election.
The DOJ is reportedly planning to target Russia-linked entities over allegations of a sustained effort to influence the election.
The allegations include targeting American voters through state-run media and other online platforms.
A CNN report stated that the Kremlin-backed Russia Today (RT) network is expected to be named by the DOJ as one of the key players in the alleged campaign.
Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to issue a statement on the matter later this afternoon.
RT issued a statement mocking the allegations when asked for a reaction, saying:
“We certainly have a reaction.
“Actually, we had several, but we couldn’t decide on one (we even thought of running an office poll), so here they are.”
“‘2016 called and it wants its clichés back,’ was among them, as were: ‘Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and RT’s interference in the U.S. elections,’ ‘We gotta earn our Kremlin paycheck somehow,’ and ‘Somewhere Secretary Clinton is sad that it’s not because of her.'”
In July, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee:
“We assess that the Russian government continues to want to influence, and in various ways interfere with our democracy, with our electoral process.
“We’ve seen that in election cycle after election cycle,” Wray said.
The move also comes after the DOJ forced RT to register as a “foreign agent” in 2017.
The federal agency said at the time:
“T&R Productions, LLC (T&R), a Washington, D.C., corporation, registered… with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act as an agent for ANO TV-Novosti, the Russian government entity responsible for the worldwide broadcasts of the RT Network (RT).
“Since August 2014, T&R has operated studios for RT, hired and paid all U.S.-based RT employees, and produced English-language programming for RT, which is both shown on cable networks across the United States and available on RT’s website,” it also said.
Former Defense Intelligence Agency officer Rebekah Koffler previously warned that RT and other propaganda abroad were part of the permanent cyberwarfare Russia wages on the West.
“They don’t just wage propaganda in a time of war, during a conflict,” she said in 2022.
“They wage it during peacetime.
“They constantly malign the United States and misrepresent foreign policy objectives …
“I’m just saying that tilts the level playing field towards Russia when we allow their propaganda channels to broadcast in an unfettered [way].”
“RT is 100% a Russian government-controlled channel and its sole intent is to predispose the American population and wherever they are broadcasting towards the Russian point of view and to present the events on the ground as the Russians want the rest of the world to see them, so if the United States did not want that to happen then it would be appropriate to shut down the channel,” Koffler added.
Democrats have repeatedly insisted that Russia has interfered in recent elections to help President Donald Trump.
However, it is widely known that it would be in Russia’s best interest to stop Trump, not help him.
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