Rigged
America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
(Sprache: Englisch)
The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is ...
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The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is "the first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context.... Extraordinary and gripping" (The New York Times Book Review).Russia's interference in the 2016 elections marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations to CIA and NSA directors to a former KGB general. Throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering with actual vote tallies.
Understanding 2016 as one battle in a much longer war is essential to comprehending the critical threat currently posed to America's electoral sovereignty and how to defend against it. Illuminating how the lessons of the past can be used to protect our democracy in the future, Rigged is an essential book for readers of every political persuasion.
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IntroductionDemocracy Under Siege
President Barack Obama faced a momentous choice. By the summer of 2016, he knew that Russia was interfering in America s upcoming election. He also knew that Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, was directing this operation. Obama now had to decide whether to retaliate against Putin before or after Election Day.
That summer, Celeste Wallander, the top Russia expert inside the White House, submitted to her superiors a classified memorandum outlining ways to punish Putin immediately, in order to deter further interference in the election. We wanted to do light deniable countermeasures early, in July, said Victoria Nuland, an assistant secretary of state who collaborated closely with Wallander. All of my Soviet and Russia training told me we had to deter with a strong set of measures up front and have them calculate the costs of continuing to attack us, particularly with a player like Putin. Nuland, Wallander, and other officials proposed a range of options: sanctioning Russia, leaking damaging information about Putin, even suffocating Russia s economy. James R. Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, recalled considering all kinds of nasty things we could have done to the Russians, such as cutting them off from the international financial system.
But, Clapper continued, the risks were too high: What would the retaliation have been?
The answer was unknown. Russian intelligence had already stolen and released emails damaging to the Democratic Party, in an effort to influence voters minds. But Russian hackers had also breached electoral systems, which Washington could not systematically defend. States and localities, not the federal government, purchase and manage America s electoral infrastructure. In some states, voter registration databases were unencrypted and insecure. [Russia] could have done things as far as voter registration rolls; they could have done things as far
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as tallies, said John Brennan, then the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Jeh Johnson, the secretary of homeland security, worried that Russia could screw around with voter registration lists to a sufficient degree to alter the outcome of the election, by making Democrats in swing states like Florida unable to cast their ballots on Election Day.
Retaliating against Putin could provoke him into disrupting the voting process itself. With Hillary Clinton favored to win the presidency, and with Donald Trump alleging that the election would be rigged, Obama delayed punishing Russia. Restraint seemed prudent. Instead, at a summit in China in early September, he warned Putin, You fuck with us and we ll take you down, as one of his senior advisers put it. Of this encounter, Lisa Monaco, Obama s homeland security adviser, said, We delivered the message to Putin and others in response to what we were seeing in the state systems. That was our focus.
By October, Russia was still targeting America s electoral infrastructure. Obama s team considered efforts to manipulate these systems a redline of sorts, said Avril Haines, the deputy national security adviser, and formulated a series of very significant responses in the event that the Russians engaged in vote tampering. On Election Day, parts of the federal government secretly braced for such an assault. We did, in fact, have an entire crisis team set up in the White House, said Michael Daniel, Obama s cybersecurity coordinator. There were teams at all of the respective agencies, he continued, monitoring for a Russian cyberattack.
The worst-case scenario did not arrive: Voting unfolded without interruption. But Russia s
Retaliating against Putin could provoke him into disrupting the voting process itself. With Hillary Clinton favored to win the presidency, and with Donald Trump alleging that the election would be rigged, Obama delayed punishing Russia. Restraint seemed prudent. Instead, at a summit in China in early September, he warned Putin, You fuck with us and we ll take you down, as one of his senior advisers put it. Of this encounter, Lisa Monaco, Obama s homeland security adviser, said, We delivered the message to Putin and others in response to what we were seeing in the state systems. That was our focus.
By October, Russia was still targeting America s electoral infrastructure. Obama s team considered efforts to manipulate these systems a redline of sorts, said Avril Haines, the deputy national security adviser, and formulated a series of very significant responses in the event that the Russians engaged in vote tampering. On Election Day, parts of the federal government secretly braced for such an assault. We did, in fact, have an entire crisis team set up in the White House, said Michael Daniel, Obama s cybersecurity coordinator. There were teams at all of the respective agencies, he continued, monitoring for a Russian cyberattack.
The worst-case scenario did not arrive: Voting unfolded without interruption. But Russia s
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Autoren-Porträt von David Shimer
David Shimer is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and an Associate Fellow at Yale University. His reporting and analysis have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. He received his doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his undergraduate and master's degrees in history from Yale University.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Shimer
- 2020, 384 Seiten, Maße: 16,7 x 24,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 0525659005
- ISBN-13: 9780525659006
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.08.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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A New York Times Editors' Choice Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction Named one of the five best books in Politics & Current Events by the 2020 Outstanding Work of Literature Awards"This is a brilliant, eye-opening, and riveting book. Shimer s analysis of foreign interference in elections, historical and contemporary, is unmatched. It should be the baseline for any future discussions about this urgent threat to our democracy."
Jake Sullivan, Former Director of Policy Planning, State Department
"In his absorbing new book, Rigged, David Shimer argues that the Russia story is far older, and the risks to U.S. electoral security far greater, than we imagined, particularly as a new election approaches."
Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
This pioneering and judicious history of foreign intervention in elections should be read by everyone who wants to defend democracy now.
Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny
This new and astonishing book by David Shimer will help rescue our democracy. I read every word of it. You should too.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th U.S. Secretary of State
With clear prose and rigorous argument, David Shimer helps us understand the historical backdrop of Russia s ongoing electoral interference. It is a sobering story and a timely reminder of the importance of addressing the vulnerabilities and dysfunctions on which resourceful adversaries like Putin will continue to prey.
Ambassador William J. Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
"Covert efforts to influence U.S. elections is not new it is part of a hundred year strategy by the Russians to undermine our democracy. This age old competition between the superpowers was won by the Russians in 2016. But as David Shimer makes clear in this book it is up to us to
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decide whether we will lose again in this new chapter of the Cold War or whether we will successfully defend our democratic experiment."
Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA
"Rigged offers a convincing analysis of what changed in the three decades since the cold war and with the arrival in the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin... a judicious overview of our unhappy times."
Luke Harding, The Guardian
"Powerful."
The National Book Review
"Eye-opening... thoroughly engaging... Rigged is a top-notch, if not the definitive, account of Russian assaults against America s electoral processand a mighty timely call for caution."
Booklist, starred
Rigged is a riveting read. David Shimer provides a clear-eyed, highly readable, meticulous history of foreign electoral interference, in which revelations abound. It is an indispensable book that is very timely and very relevant, especially as we approach the elections of 2020. Readers won t be able to put it down.
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
"[An] authoritative book... His section about the torturous deliberations within President Obama's administration about how to respond to Russia's active measures is comprehensive to the point of encyclopedic... fascinating reading."
Philip Ewing, NPR
"Provocative and well-sourced... This incisive treatise lays bare the monumental task of countering foreign interference in the 2020 election."
Publishers Weekly
As a CIA operations officer, I served through the most complicated periods of the Cold War. David Shimer's book Rigged gives a riveting account of that traumatic period. Shimer knows why and how we engaged in covert action, and what we were up against. He also knows the policies we must modify, if we are to succeed in the 2020s. This is a truly significant book; by all means, read it.
Ambassador Donald Gregg, Former CIA Station Chief and National Security Advisor to VP George H.W. Bush
"Rigged provides a fascinating window into the shadowy world of covert election interference and Shimer illuminates how it produces lasting, if sometimes unintended, consequences.
Brian Klaas, Washington Post columnist and author of How to Rig an Election
"The first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context. . . Extraordinary and gripping. . . With the pacing of a thriller and the insight of a superb work of history. . . this book is nothing less than essential reading.
Tim Naftali, The New York Times Book Review
"'Election interference' by one country into another is a subject that inspires speculation and conspiracy theory. David Shimer's Rigged establishes the facts: when and why Russians and Americans have meddled in the politics of other countries - and of one another. Based on a wide range of sources, this book is an excellent resource for people who want to know what actually happened, and not just what was rumored.
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History
Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA
"Rigged offers a convincing analysis of what changed in the three decades since the cold war and with the arrival in the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin... a judicious overview of our unhappy times."
Luke Harding, The Guardian
"Powerful."
The National Book Review
"Eye-opening... thoroughly engaging... Rigged is a top-notch, if not the definitive, account of Russian assaults against America s electoral processand a mighty timely call for caution."
Booklist, starred
Rigged is a riveting read. David Shimer provides a clear-eyed, highly readable, meticulous history of foreign electoral interference, in which revelations abound. It is an indispensable book that is very timely and very relevant, especially as we approach the elections of 2020. Readers won t be able to put it down.
General (Ret.) David Petraeus, former Director of the CIA and Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan
"[An] authoritative book... His section about the torturous deliberations within President Obama's administration about how to respond to Russia's active measures is comprehensive to the point of encyclopedic... fascinating reading."
Philip Ewing, NPR
"Provocative and well-sourced... This incisive treatise lays bare the monumental task of countering foreign interference in the 2020 election."
Publishers Weekly
As a CIA operations officer, I served through the most complicated periods of the Cold War. David Shimer's book Rigged gives a riveting account of that traumatic period. Shimer knows why and how we engaged in covert action, and what we were up against. He also knows the policies we must modify, if we are to succeed in the 2020s. This is a truly significant book; by all means, read it.
Ambassador Donald Gregg, Former CIA Station Chief and National Security Advisor to VP George H.W. Bush
"Rigged provides a fascinating window into the shadowy world of covert election interference and Shimer illuminates how it produces lasting, if sometimes unintended, consequences.
Brian Klaas, Washington Post columnist and author of How to Rig an Election
"The first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context. . . Extraordinary and gripping. . . With the pacing of a thriller and the insight of a superb work of history. . . this book is nothing less than essential reading.
Tim Naftali, The New York Times Book Review
"'Election interference' by one country into another is a subject that inspires speculation and conspiracy theory. David Shimer's Rigged establishes the facts: when and why Russians and Americans have meddled in the politics of other countries - and of one another. Based on a wide range of sources, this book is an excellent resource for people who want to know what actually happened, and not just what was rumored.
Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History
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