James Himes

The top Democratic lawmakers on the ​congressional intelligence committees on Wednesday said they received an intelligence ​briefing that Russia has been waging a misinformation campaign ‌against Democrats ​running in next month's midterm elections. The comments by Senator Mark Warner and Representative Jim Himes come as Republican President Donald Trump has in recent weeks eased economic sanctions on Russia and increased ‌pressure on Ukraine to end its fight against Russian forces. Warner and Himes told reporters they were limited in revealing what they had learned in an election security briefing that they had requested from Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton because it was classified. But, they said, Russia was waging ‌the same kind of online misinformation campaign that the US intelligence community had tracked in US elections in 2016, 2020, and 2024. "And the ‌state of play, I would argue, is that, you know, Russia, similar to prior occasions, is going after Democrats,"...