FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2020 5:00 AM EST US Intelligence Agencies See No Evidence Of Foreign Interference In Mail Ballots, Though Misinformation, Software Concerns Linger. Politico (11/7, Cheney, 4.29M) reports that while Trump in June alleged foreign countries "would surely print 'millions of mail-in ballots' to upend the U.S. election," US intelligence officials on Friday "reaffirmed" they saw no such evidence of such action. ODNI spokesperson Dean Boyd said, "Our assessments have not changed.' FBI spokesperson Carol Crafty commented, "We have nothing new to add to our previous statements." In addition, the New York Times (11/7, Epstein, 18.61M) reports that despite 'warnings of violence, threats of foreign interference, rampant disinformation, cuts to the Postal Service, President Trump's sowing of distrust and a pandemic that forced the relocation of thousands of polling places, the machinery of American democracy adapted and held up this past week. The result was a relatively smooth election free of the hourslong lines and vote-suppressing shenanigans that have characterized the voting experience in recent years, particularly during the primaries of the coronavirus era.' In an editorial, the Washington Post (11/7, 14.2M) applauds the election officials and vote counters who continued counting "amid the chaos of anxiety, menace and misinformation surrounding the endgame of ballot counting." The Post says, "In defiance of every ploy, stratagem and invented accusation the president and his acolytes could throw at them, vote counters and election officials were undeterred, just as poll workers and voters themselves had been undeterred before them." The Post concludes this "spirit matched the staggering turnout Tuesday, in which more than 160 million Americans, or two-thirds of eligible voters, may have cast votes either by mail or at the polls — the biggest share in more than a century." However, Reut