center, as a consultant of the counterterrorism division, and the national security ranch branch, the nsb. he is an analyst supporting the intelligence committee and special operations command. his remarks today concern election security, specifically the threat actor behavior and countermeasures for disrupting state and nonstate actors. these join me in welcoming dr. clint watts. >> thanks to everybody for having me today. it's a change from when i talked about this topic in 2016, nobody was too interested. i'm not sure if you're aware, russia interfered in our election. we haven't talked about it much for the last four years, but today, i wanted to talk to about something other than that. i thought a good way to put context on it and to think about the dilemma you all face in each of these states, which has different political, social, and financial interests. you have different populations looking at different information sources. i think that is where i would like to start. i was in new orleans earlier this week and i had not been there in 25 years. it was july 4th weekend 1996, and i

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