{"id":16605,"date":"2019-04-27T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16605"},"modified":"2019-04-27T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T05:32:10","slug":"fbi-to-brief-florida-lawmakers-on-election-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16605","title":{"rendered":"FBI to brief Florida lawmakers on election hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI will brief Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on election hacking that was detailed in the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>Scott spokesman Chris Hartline told The Hill in a statement that &#8220;the FBI has reached out and is working on scheduling a briefing with Senator Scott in the next few weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis previously expressed frustration that Florida officials don&#8217;t know more about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They won&#8217;t tell us which county it was, are you kidding me?&#8221; he said at a Thursday press conference in Miami. &#8220;Why would you have not said something immediately?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tchjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrczpwwp_cdgtccpdpftcclpttjjq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tchjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrczpwwp_cdgtccpdpftcclpttjjq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556421174119000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGe03HX_iYFJsX0-df4Ku6taX0kbQ\">Scott sent a letter to the FBI asking for evidence<\/a>\u00a0to corroborate hacking claims made in the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is my goal to have free and fair elections with zero fraud, which is why, as Governor, I invested millions of dollars in cyber security, hired additional cyber security staff, and secured election security grants for all 67 counties in Florida,&#8221; he said in the letter. &#8220;This is a very serious issue that needs the immediate attention of the FBI.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott was serving as Florida&#8217;s governor at the time of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The Mueller report, which was released in redacted form last week, said that Russia&#8217;s intelligence directorate, known as the GRU, sent &#8220;spearphishing&#8221; emails that contained malicious software to Florida country officials in charge of administering the 2016 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI will brief Florida Sen.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16606,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16605\/revisions\/16606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}