Senior House Democrats left a White House briefing disappointed on Tuesday, saying they were given “no substantive information” about allegations that Russia paid Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops — and that Trump sat on the information for months
Senior House Democrats left a White House briefing on Russian bounties disappointed on Tuesday, saying they were given “no substantive information” about allegations that the Kremlin paid Taliban militants to kill U.S. troops — and that President Donald Trump sat on the information for months.
The briefing, according to participants, was led by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and included Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien, senior National Security Council aide Michael Ellis, top NSC counsel John Eisenberg and Thomas Williams, the NSC's senior director for European and Russian Affairs.
Democrats are now reiterating their demands for a full briefing beyond the group that attended on Tuesday — and to hear directly from intelligence officials. Hoyer said he repeatedly asked White House officials for such a briefing, but left without an assurance that it would happen.on Monday that Trump was briefed on the intelligence in late February, earlier than previously reported.
Other Democrats in attendance Tuesday included Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith and a mix of Democrats who serve on the Foreign Affairs and Armed Services panels — Reps. Brad Sherman , Gregory Meeks , Mikie Sherrill , Abigail Spanberger , Elissa Slotkin , Ruben Gallego and Bill Keating . Despite O’Brien’s statement, the intelligence community found the bounty claims credible enough to include in a classified CIA intelligence document distributed to U.S. officials across the world, according to the Times.
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