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On Tuesday, the top spies of the country have warned the U.S Congress that Russian interference operations in the United States will continue during current year’s midterm elections. The Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats informed the U.S Senate intelligence committee that Moscow viewed its attack on the 2016 election and given the chaos it has sown compared with its relatively low cost. Coats said that there isn’t any doubt that Russia perceived that its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S. midterm elections as a potential target for Russian midterm operations. On Tuesday, the top intelligence officials in America were on Capitol Hill due to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence convened its annual hearing on Worldwide threats.

This hearing takes place every year, but this year’s installment convened amid an ongoing Department of Justice and FBI counterintelligence investigation into whether President Trump’s campaign might have conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 election. They also discussed reports regarding the losses of U.S. agents overseas, the theft of the NSA’s secret spying software and other major setbacks in the intelligence business. The CIA Director Mike Pompeo, FBI Director Christopher Wray and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers, as well as the heads of the Defense Intelligence Agency and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley and Robert Cardillo were answering questions from legislators along with Coats.