Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision made by the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe …
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the decision made by the Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Saturday to scale back in-person election security briefings for Congress is “outrageous.” “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has an obligation to brief Congress on threats to our elections,” Warner said in a statement obtained by The Hill. “Director [John] Ratcliffe’s outrageous decision to stop providing briefings to Congress is an unprecedented attempt to politicize an issue – protecting our democracy from foreign intervention – that should be non-partisan.
