U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) in a Wednesday hearing of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee (SSIC) warned of foreign “sleeper cells” interfering and potentially causing “chaos” in the 2024 elections.
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In an exchange with the Director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), Jen Easterly, Sen. King said foreign adversaries are using the free speech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to subvert our elections.
“What is going on here is our adversaries are using our strength against us. It is a geopolitical jiu-jitsu. The strength of our society is its openness, the first amendment, freedom of expression. They are using that in order to manipulate our most fundamental sacred right, which is the right of an election,” Sen. King told Director Easterly in the Wednesday hearing.
“So, we have got to be alert to it. And as I said, I disagree with my colleague. I do not think you are in the truth and falsehood business, I think you are in the disclosure of intelligence business,” King added.
Easterly told King that CISA has “enhanced” their force of cybersecurity advisors, physical security advisors and elections security advisors who are working with secretaries of state in preparation for the 2024 elections.
Easterly also said that she is “in touch with chief election officials across the country to include [Maine] Secretary of State [Shenna] Bellows and others to ensure they are getting everything they need to run safe and secure elections and that has not been affected in any partisan way.”
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows in December decided to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, a decision which she later overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court in March unanimously ruled that states do not have the authority to disqualify candidates for federal office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, the so-called “insurrection clause.”
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Pressing the CISA director to “ramp it up” on election integrity, Sen. King told Easterly that “We have about six months and we know that these adversaries are coming at us.”
“Final question, we know that in 2016 and I believe in 2018 the Russians got into [some] states’ election infrastructure. They didn’t do anything with it, there was no effort to manipulate voting, but they weren’t doing it for fun,” said Senator King. “I am worried they are still there, and that the potential for people walking into a polling place in Miami and finding their name has disappeared off the list.”
“The potential for chaos is very high,” King told the CISA director. “I hope all of you are pursuing those — I call them sleeper cells — that may still be there in state election infrastructure.”
And who allowed these “Sleeper Cells” into America?
“The potential for chaos is very high,” King (The Master of the Obvious) told the CISA director. If he and other Senators and House Reps had done their job to protect and defend the citizens by sealing the border, this threat would have been minimized. What losers!!
America’s largest “sleeper cell” that NEVER sleeps…..the Democrat Party.
WOW! Look at that smile sitting next to the absolute worst president ever to hold the office and we want to re-elect this idiot?
…there’s not a lick of common sense between Maine’s 2 Senators…zip, zero, nada!!
Four faces of evil!
Why has king not done any thing about?
Sitting on air force 1 does not help.
It only shows your true colors DEMOCRAT Say it ANGUS–DEMOCRAT
Thanks for the warning you three democrats helped to create, this is what the democrat party wants is CHAOS in the upcoming election
By safe and secure… the democrats mean.. have anyone vote.. as long as it’s for them
just another virus released on us just in time for the election cycle