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Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who on Thursday suggested it was time to start “throwing rocks” at Russia for “interfering in our election,” will lead the Senate Armed Services Committee’s new subcommittee on cyber threats, after being hand-picked by committee chairman and close friend Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Graham has been the Senate’s most vocal Republican challenging Trump over the president-elect’s repeated efforts to downplay and discredit the intelligence community’s findings that Russian operatives were behind a series of election-related hacks. A declassified report released Friday by U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a comprehensive cyber campaign to disrupt the election and “aspired to help” Trump’s campaign. Full at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/06/senate-gops-biggest-trump-critic-to-lead-congress-most-public-russian-hacking-investigation/?utm_term=.6f54aa4f314d&wpisrc=nl_politics-pm&wpmm=1 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
