According to the FBI director, Russia penetrated state-level GOP groups and campaigns, as well as an RNC domain that was no longer in use ― which could indicate an effort to access current emails belonging to the committee.
Burr noted emphatically that the attempts to penetrate state electoral systems were unsuccessful and "did not in any way, shape or form alter" vote totals.
"Infiltrators exploited our forces' preoccupation with preparations for the Fallujah battle to penetrate state institutions and cause chaos," the military said, referring to a city 30 miles west of Baghdad controlled by Islamic State for more than two years.
For a decade after the end of the country's 30-year civil war in 1996, well-connected criminals had proved nearly impossible to prosecute, because gangs led by veterans of the security services had thoroughly penetrated the state.
Some of those men are putatively public servants, but graft has so comprehensively penetrated the state that at one point the drug wars take the surreal form of local police fighting their federal counterparts, each side on the payroll of a different cartel.
The criminal underworld has also penetrated the state.
However, intermediates possessing a membrane-contacting C1A or C1B domain [(IV) and (VI) have been directly observed in this study] can switch between a shallow or deep membrane-penetrating state, yielding ensembles that display multiple diffusion constants: fast and slow arising from shallow and deep penetration of the C1 domain into the bilayer, respectively.
"The goal is power — to penetrate the state and change it from within.
Nowhere else in newly liberated Europe were Nazi sympathisers enabled to penetrate the state structure – the army, security forces, judiciary – so effectively.
Though there's been public speculation over how many states were affected, this marks the first time federal officials publicly stated the number of states penetrated successfully by Russian hacking.
In Mao's China, the coercive power of the state penetrated every corner of national life.
