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NEW: After Netanyahu's government was caught ordering a malign influence operation against US voters last week, WIRED began questioning US lawmakers about it. We've been stonewalled at every turn. The White House even denied having heard of it.
US Leaders Dodge Questions About Israel’s Influence Campaignwww.wired.com Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has joined US intelligence officials in ignoring repeated inquiries about Israel’s “malign” efforts to covertly influence US voters.
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Does "no response" here mean "we are deferring to State about how to respond to this diplomatic issue, and they haven't figured it out yet"?
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No. It means we've reached out with questions to multiple senior staff members in each office multiple times over the past six days and received zero response.
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that doesn’t make me feel good would there be a reason they would want to keep it a secret that was good?
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Yeah, I concur. Not at this stage. There's no good reason for Jeffries in particular not to come out say whether he was notified or not. And if not, the question is then whether the IC withheld it or was similarly unaware. And if this stuff is slipping through in an election year, that's a big deal.
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Take this with a grain of salt, but I just called Rep. Jeffries office and the person I spoke to actually seemed unaware of the article. So, he said he'd flag it.
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