美国情报界周五发表的一份公开声明称，美国的三大对手在11月大选前积极干预美国总统政治，包括俄罗斯推动唐纳德·特朗普总统连任的努力。
声明称:“我们认为，俄罗斯正在采取一系列措施，主要是诋毁前副总统拜登及其眼中的反俄罗斯‘当权派’。”声明还补充称，“一些与克里姆林宫有关联的行为者也在社交媒体和俄罗斯电视上寻求提升特朗普总统的候选人资格。”
该声明举例说明了俄罗斯的影响力措施，指出“亲俄的乌克兰议员安德烈·德尔卡什正在散布关于腐败的言论，包括通过公开泄露的电话来破坏前副总统拜登的候选人资格和民主党。”据报道，去年，德尔卡什参与了一个泄露拜登和当时的乌克兰总统彼得罗·波罗申科之间多年通话的计划。
12月，当众议院对特朗普的弹劾调查正在进行时，总统的私人律师鲁迪·朱利安尼，在乌克兰会见了德尔卡什在一部有争议的电影中，朱利安尼完成了关于拜登和他作为副总统在乌克兰的工作。
德卡奇声称，他向国会议员提供了有关拜登的诽谤性信息，而共和党人仍在继续推进至少一项调查拜登对乌克兰的政策是否受到他儿子的影响亨特·拜登在拜登还是副总统的时候，他曾在乌克兰能源公司Burisma的董事会任职。
拜登有强烈否认受到任何形式的影响，一些美国官员宣誓后公开称对拜登的指控不可信。
2020年7月30日，星期四，俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京在莫斯科郊外的新奥加廖沃官邸参加一个视频会议。
特朗普任命的美国国家反间谍和安全中心主任威廉·伊万尼纳(William Evanina)在周五发表的声明中表示，俄罗斯的最新努力“与莫斯科公开批评[拜登]在奥巴马政府的乌克兰政策中所扮演的角色以及支持俄罗斯国内的反普京反对派的做法一致。”
就在两周前，拜登说他把克里姆林宫关于选举干涉的“通知”。
拜登在一份冗长的声明中写道:“如果当选总统，我将把外国对我们选举的干涉视为一种敌对行为，这将严重影响美国与干涉国政府之间的关系。”
埃瓦尼娜的声明还对中国和伊朗影响即将到来的总统选举的努力提供了新的政府评估。
声明称:“我们认为，中国更希望特朗普总统(北京方面认为他不可预测)不要赢得连任。”“在2020年11月之前，中国一直在扩大其影响力，以制定政策环境在美国，向它认为与中国利益相反的政治人物施压，并转移和反击对中国的批评。"
在伊朗问题上，伊瓦尼娜在声明中表示，伊朗政权总体上是在与“民主制度”作对，但也在寻求“削弱”特朗普，“在2020年选举之前分裂该国。”
声明总结称:“德黑兰开展此类活动的部分动机是，人们认为特朗普当选总统将导致美国继续对伊朗施加压力，以煽动政权更迭。”声明预测，伊朗的影响力“可能将集中在网络影响力上，例如在社交媒体上传播虚假信息和传播反美内容。”
在这张2019年6月29日的档案照片中，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在日本西部大阪举行的20国集团(G20)峰会间隙与中国习近平主席握手。
随着选举日的临近，“外国各州将继续使用隐蔽和公开的影响手段，试图左右美国选民的偏好和观点，改变美国的政策，增加美国内部的不和，并削弱美国人民对我们民主进程的信心。”
在埃瓦尼娜发表声明后，美国国土安全部的高级网络官员、网络安全和基础设施安全局局长克里斯托弗·克雷布斯(Christopher Krebs)宣称，这种“透明度”和“意识”是“我们的选举官员和美国人民用来抵御选举干扰的最好工具。”
克雷布斯说:“自2016年以来，我们已经取得了长足的进步。”
在他们自己的声明中，参议院情报委员会主席马尔科·卢比奥(佛罗里达州)和该委员会的民主党领袖马克·沃纳参议员(弗吉尼亚州民主党人)感谢埃瓦尼娜今天发布的信息，他们鼓励“各方的政治领导人不要为了政治利益而将情报武器化，因为这只会加剧我们对手的分裂目标。”
Russia working to boost Trump's reelection and 'denigrate' Biden, as China undermines Trump: US intelligence
Three of America's top adversaries are actively meddling in U.S. presidential politics ahead of the November election, including efforts by Russia to advance President Donald Trump's reelection efforts, according to a public statement issued Friday by the U.S. intelligence community.
"We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden and what it sees as an anti-Russia 'establishment,'" the statement said, adding that, "Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian television."
Providing an example of Russia's influence measures, the statement noted that "pro-Russia Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach is spreading claims about corruption -- including through publicizing leaked phone calls -- to undermine former Vice President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party." Last year, Derkach reportedly took part in a scheme to leak years-old calls between Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
In December, as the House impeachment inquiry against Trump was underway, the president's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani,met with Derkach in Ukrainefor a controversial film Giuliani was completing about Biden and his work in Ukraine as vice president.
Derkach has claimed that he provided derogatory information about Biden to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, where Republicans are still pressing forward withat least one investigationinto whether Biden's policies toward Ukraine were influenced by his sonHunter Biden, who served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma while Biden was still vice president.
Biden hasvehemently deniedbeing influenced in any way, and several U.S. officials have -- under oath -- publicly described the allegations against Biden as not credible.
Russia's latest efforts are "consistent with Moscow's public criticism of [Biden] when he was Vice President for his role in the Obama Administration's policies on Ukraine and its support for the anti-Putin opposition inside Russia," said Friday's statement, which was issued by Trump appointee William Evanina, director of the United States National Counterintelligence and Security Center.
It was just over two weeks ago that Biden saidhe was putting the Kremlin"on notice" over its election interference.
"If elected president, I will treat foreign interference in our election as an adversarial act that significantly affects the relationship between the United States and the interfering nation's government," Biden wrote as part of a lengthy statement.
Evanina's statement also offered a new government assessment of efforts by China and Iran to influence the upcoming presidential election.
"We assess that China prefers that President Trump -- whom Beijing sees as unpredictable -- does not win reelection," the statement said. "China has been expanding its influence efforts ahead of November 2020 to shape the policyenvironmentin the United States, pressure political figures it views as opposed to China's interests, and deflect and counter criticism of China."
On Iran, Evanina's statement said the regime there is working against "democratic institutions" in general, but also looking to "undermine" Trump and "to divide the country in advance of the 2020 elections."
"Tehran's motivation to conduct such activities is, in part, driven by a perception that President Trump's reelection would result in a continuation of U.S. pressure on Iran in an effort to foment regime change," the statement concluded, predicting that Iran's influence efforts "probably will focus on on-line influence, such as spreading disinformation on social media and recirculating anti-U.S. content."
s near, "foreign states will continue to use covert and overt influence measures in their attempts to sway U.S. voters' preferences and perspectives, shift U.S. policies, increase discord in the United States, and undermine the American people's confidence in our democratic process," Evanina said.
After Evanina issued his statement, the Department of Homeland Security's top cyber official, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, declared that such "transparency" and "awareness" are some of "the best tools our election officials and the American people have to help defend against election interference."
"We've come a long way since 2016," according to Krebs.
In their own statement, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., thanked Evanina for today's release of information, and they encouraged "political leaders on all sides to refrain from weaponizing intelligence matters for political gain, as this only furthers the divisive aims of our adversaries."
