Politics

US scales back foreign-interference defenses

CNN Politics reported January 28 that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, FBI, and State Department shuttered or shrank foreign-influence task forces; local election officials now run solo. PBS and VOA echoed that Chinese, Russian, and Iranian intelligence continue targeting US elections.

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