US Intel Officials Warn of Election Disinformation as Iran, Russia Obtain Voter Info

Iran and Russia have gained access and obtained U.S. voting registration information “to influence public opinion relation to our elections,” the Trump administration’s national intelligence director warned at a major election security briefing to the nation on Wednesday night. John Ratcliffe, the Trump-appointed Director of National Intelligence, said during the rare press conference that the intelligence community was “prepared for the possibility of actions by those hostile to democracy” and that the reported foreign activity was caught “immediately” with the FBI and DHS acting “swiftly in response to this threat.” “Our duty also includes empowering the American people to understand information or perhaps more accurately disinformation that they are seeing, particularly on the internet, and make informed decisions for themselves,” he said. “With that in mind, we would like to alert the public that … we have confirmed that some voter registration information has been obtained by Iran, and separately …