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With More Transparency On Election Security, A Question Looms: What Don't We Know?

Washington and Americans are engaged with the problem of foreign interference as never before — but how much remains unknown about efforts targeting the election?
In a videoconference Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security John Demers spoke about espionage efforts directed by China toward the U.S. and Beijing's covert influence operations.

Americans have the most detailed accounting they've ever received in real time about foreign efforts to interfere in a U.S. election — but, for the public at least, there are still as many questions as answers.

The U.S. intelligence community has made good on earlier promises to release some findings and assessments on foreign interference, including with a historic report last week from the nation's top boss of counterintelligence.

The latest word came Wednesday, when Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers described what he called the need for the United States to order the closure of the Chinese government's consulate in Houston.

Not only was it involved in what officials have called a tidal wave of espionage

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