Democrats, unsatisfied by briefings on intelligence that Russia offered the Afghan Taliban bounties to kill U.S. troops, demand further investigation.
, which is battling Russian aggression, as he attempted to force the Eastern European country to investigate his political enemies, including Biden.Republicans did not criticize Trump directly, but they expressed concern about the intelligence collected on Russian bounties.
The latest controversy threatens to exacerbate the partisan divide over intelligence issues that has widened since Trump’s election. Although there’s a bipartisan tradition of holding joint briefings, administration officials met with Republicans on Monday and Democrats on Tuesday.Mike Rogers, a former Republican congressman from Michigan who chaired the House Intelligence Committee, said the separation was “unfortunate” because “you want everybody to hear the same thing.
He also claimed that the allegations regarding Russian bounties “have not been verified or substantiated,” and Trump “had not been briefed on the items.”Officials appear to be drawing a distinction between a verbal briefing and inclusion in the president’s daily brief. Trump is widely known to avoid reading the document, which has alarmed national security experts who fear the president’s ignorance is leaving the country vulnerable.
Administration officials may be reluctant “to brief the president on things he doesn’t want to hear, and that may be more true with respect to Putin and Putin’s Russia than with respect to any other subject matter,” Schiff said.“You brief the president in the manner in which he or she receives information. If a president doesn’t read the briefs,” he said, “it doesn’t work to give him written product and not tell him what’s in it,” Schiff said.
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