election interference

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  1/6/20
  

  Did Britain meddle in a US presidential election?

  When US President George HW Bush craved "a smoking gun" in 1992 to politically kneecap his White House challenger Bill Clinton, the British government delved into its files for damaging information. 

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/26/19
  

  Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference

  by Casey Michel

  Trump’s willingness to allow foreign governments to influence American elections is historically unprecedented. Just how unprecedented becomes clear when you look back at the long history of attempts by foreign powers (almost always Russia) to tip an outcome to their advantage.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/21/19
  

  Living in a Nation of Political Narcissists

  by Tom Engelhardt

  American election exceptionalism from 1945-2019.