Posted on 08/29/2020 3:08:27 PM PDT by ransomnote
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe indicated that leaks from Congress were the reason for ending in-person briefings.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is scaling back its election security briefings to Congress, according to two sources familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by POLITICO.
ODNI told the House and Senate intelligence committees that it will still provide written briefings, but that they should not expect verbal, in-person briefings on the topic, according to a congressional official and letters dated Aug. 28 that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sent to top members of Congress. Ratcliffe indicated in those letters that leaks from Congress were the reason for ending in-person briefings.
The move has enraged congressional Democrats, who have long charged the Trump administration with downplaying threats to U.S. elections from foreign actors, especially Russia. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement that ODNI canceled separate briefings that had been scheduled for September before the intelligence committees and all members of Congress.
“This is a shocking abdication of its lawful responsibility to keep the Congress currently informed, and a betrayal of the public’s right to know how foreign powers are trying to subvert our democracy,” Schiff and Pelosi said.
ODNI decided to scale back the briefings because classified material from recent briefings leaked out, according to a U.S. intelligence official and a congressional official in touch with the office. CNN first reported the development.
ODNI officials were particularly angry about a leak from an all-House classified briefing led by top counterintelligence official Bill Evanina late last month, where Pelosi accused him of keeping Americans in the dark about the details of Russia’s continued interference in the 2020 campaign.
Evanina ultimately acknowledged in that briefing that Russia is again trying to boost President Donald Trump’s reelection and denigrate his opponent, Joe Biden. In a statement at the time, an ODNI official said Evanina was “incredibly disappointed in the inability of some to protect classified information they are legally obligated to safeguard and instead attempt to use it for partisan gain.”
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they need ti do the Canary trick with the written submissions to congress.
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“Trump farts, Democrats outraged!”
Dems musta been sniffin’ around for something new, and got a nosefull! Hah!
My guess...this is a leaked lie or a successful trap to identify the leaker(s).
Four splodeys wrote this. Democrats can shove their outrage up their oversized cheating asses.
Aren’t these the two dipsticks who ran the impeachment scam?
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Yes. But they need not fear having be-clowned themselves on the national stage. The MSM Installed fake credibility on them years ago so now they can be open about their crimes and still be treated like the standard for truth.
Democrats outraged whatever President Trump does.
Wow...Ali Watkins will have to go down deep for her data.
“when in the last 5 years, haven’t the dems been outraged by something related to Trump?”
They just don’t get it. In the article:
“Ratcliffe indicated in those letters that leaks from Congress were the reason for ending in-person briefings.”
They don’t even read their own reports:
https://homeland.house.gov/imo/media/doc/TFESReport.pdf
rwood
They had plots of false information to hand their friends in the press, ready to distribute the last moth when early voting starts.
Briefings will resume in December.
The rats have been suffering from PMS for almost four years now!
My family on both sides, going back over 100 years, have always been DEMOCRAT! Espousing the Democratic Cause!
Yet they never registered to vote as they never wanted to be called for Jury Duty.
All are dead now, but every election day they rise from the dead and vote the Democrat ticket.
I was the first to have Republican Leanings back in 1964 with Goldwater, even though I was too young to vote. When I could vote I voted for NIXON, and was called later for Jury duty and went and served.
Still vote Republican, but I am afraid my Republican wife who passed away a few weeks ago will now start voting democrat for the next 100 years.
I will give instructions to my family, that when I am dead, to drive a long steel stake through my heart so I will not rise from the grave to vote democrat.
scores of millions of Americans NOT outraged.
but
millions outraged Dems are trying to sabotage the election with mail-in voting/harvest voting etc.
that’s not a story for FakeNewsMSM.
Does this mean the Dems can’t read? Silly question. Of course not.....
Networks tonight fail to report that this same info will be available in print form.
......OR that leaks were the cause for change.
oh the HORROR ! the INHUMANITY ! ...... F&%K the POS !
Ds and media (but I repeat myself) are so biased, I sense not only a Trump landslide which will further freak the Ds and media (but I rep.....) that a major shakeup of some sort will happen in 2021. Perhaps revised slander legislation to limit Ds and media ( but I....)
As usual it took four authors to write this BS.
p
The boy who cried wolf x 100
The dems psycho ranting has become jihadesque
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