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The Biggest Threat to US Elections

Posted: September 8th, 2020

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

OPINION — President Trump and elements of his administration are publicly assessing that China poses a greater national security threat to the US election than Russia.

Attorney General Bill Barr started it off last Wednesday on CNN when he was asked which country was most aggressive and he answered, “I believe it’s China…because I have seen the intelligence, that’s what I’ve concluded.” He refused to give any details, saying, “I’m not going to get into that.”

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