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Iran behind Assumed”Proud Boys” voter-intimidation Mails, Feds allege

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Expand / FBI Director Chrisopher Wray talking at a media conference in Washington, DC, on October 7. (charge: Jim Watson | AFP | Bloomberg | Getty Images)

We have less than fourteen days to go before the national voting deadline to the elections on November 3, and essentially what is, as most anticipated, hitting the fan simultaneously. Today, intelligence officers and lawmakers are begging Americans to become credulous using the things they see and listen to on line amid fresh allegations that celebrities from Iran e-mailed individual voter-intimidation attempts.

Manager of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wray combined forces in a mutually declared press conference Wednesday night to issue a warning which overseas performers”have taken specific action to affect public opinion regarding our elections” Especially, Ratcliffe stated, celebrities from Iran and Russia had individually obtained”a few voter registration data” and have been using it”to convey false information about registered voters they expect will lead to confusion, wreak havoc, and undermine the confidence in Western democracy”

Ratcliffe was speaking to a email campaign that began before this week, if several Republicans in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska began receiving threatening speeches .

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