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Expert warns Senate Intelligence Committee Russia seeks to ‘crumble’ US from inside

By Todd Shepherd

Published March 30, 2017 4:33pm ET

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Expert warns Senate Intelligence Committee Russia seeks to ‘crumble’ US from inside — Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute Program on National Security, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 30, on Russian intelligence activities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

A national security expert warned the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that Russia’s disinformation campaign in 2016 sought to “crumble democracies from the inside out” by “winning the second cold war through the force of politics, as opposed to the politics of force.”

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