Early Bird Brief: Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election...................AND MORE

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1. Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election (The Intercept) Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.

2. Contractor charged in NSA document leak case (Washington Post) A 25-year-old government contractor has been charged with mishandling classified information after authorities say she gave a top-secret National Security Agency document to a news ­organization.

3. Russian warships visit Hong Kong for the first time to boost presence in region (South China Morning Post) For the first time in modern history, two Russian Navy ships are making a non-official port call to Hong Kong, reflecting enhanced ties between Moscow and Beijing.

4. 5 Arab States Break Ties With Qatar, Complicating U.S. Coalition-Building (New York Times) Egypt, Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries severed all ties with Qatar early Monday, in a renewal of a four-year effort to isolate it and in a sign of a new boldness after a visit to the region by President Trump.

5. VA to use DOD's electronic medical records system (Military Times) Veterans Affairs administrators on Monday announced plans to shift veterans’ electronic medical records to the same system used by the Defense Department, potentially ending a decades-old problematic rift in sharing information between the two bureaucracies.

Early Bird Brief - Military Times