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dubbed nobelium, the group responsible for the solarwinds attack, is targeting think tanks and other organizations. it is believed to be run by russian intelligence service. according to microsoft the attacks are ongoing and part of the intelligence gathering effort. microsoft says the latest campaign targeted 3,000 e-mail accounts across 150 organizations in at least 24 countries and has been going on since at least january, right at the end of the solarwinds attack. in a statement, mark warner says in part, quote, we must make clear to russia and any other adversaries that they will face consequences for this and any other malicious cyber activity. that statement was released around the time these 35 senate republicans voted to black a bill that was negotiated by a member of their own party, set up to set up a non-partisan commission to investigate the january 6th insurrection. these republicans you are
reach of the cia intelligence gathering effort. the cia ultimately decided to exfiltrate the informant following mounting concerns that the individual could be discovered by the russian government. i m joined now by shane harris and david corn. i m going to go with shane first. this is staggering because for months now, almost three years now trump has been in a battle with the agencies saying they make up all this like he does with the media. but it turns out they had a source very close to vladimir putin to find out the role he was playing directing the whole interference operation in 2016. yeah, that s right. and that s a source worth gold in the intelligence business to have somebody that close that can give you the intentions and decision making processes of a senior leader and someone who the agency, the cia was running for more than ten years. so this long predates donald trump s position in the white house. this is somebody who the cia would have guarded very closely and who
people actually entered the country of austria. the one plane carrying the four from russia has taken off and landed, we understand, now from the united kingdom. the other aircraft carrying the ten russians arraigned in new york is still on its way back to the russian capital. this was all part of the plea deal. the ten slans pled guilty and, of course, they were deported. is there any better understanding of what secrets, if any, they actually got while in the u.s.? operating as spies. reporter: well, i think the fact that they were released so quickly and that both the move beyond this situation as soon as possible is a reflection of the fact that these ten agents operating in the united states didn t really penetrate too deeply in the corridors of power in the united states. they were mainly on the fringes of russia s intelligence gathering effort. they didn t really compromise