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Biden’s Election Cop Tells All

A timely conversation with Matt Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s national security division, about Russia’s ’24 election meddling efforts, Iran’s aggressive hacking of the Trump campaign, and why declassifying information about these attacks may be the best antidote.

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The tip of the spear inside the D.O.J.’s anti-interference efforts is Matt Olsen, who heads the department’s national security division. Photo: Ahmet Hakan Kazak/Anadolu/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
October 2, 2024

The 2016 presidential election was a traumatic disaster for Democrats. Not least because of the Kremlin’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump, but also because, once he became president, Trump continued to flirt with Vladimir Putin and not do much to head off Russian election meddling during the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, when it was his people at the helm.