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Trump administration ends election security briefings
Aug. 9 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended all election security briefings to Congress just weeks before Americans cast their ballots for president, raising concern among lawmakers about the public’s right to know about foreign interference in the election...
Aug. 9 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended all election security briefings to Congress just weeks before Americans cast their ballots for president, raising concern among lawmakers about the public’s right to know about foreign interference in the election...
In his letter to the committees, Ratcliffe wrote: “I believe this approach helps ensure, to the maximum extent possible, that the information ODNI provides the Congress in support of your oversight responsibilities on elections security, foreign malign influence, and election interference is not misunderstood nor politicized.”
Democrats expressed outrage at the decision by Ratcliffe, who directs the office overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies.
“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,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat who chairs the House’s intelligence committee, said in a joint statement.
“This intelligence belongs to the American people, not the agencies which are its custodian. And the American people have both the right and the need to know that another nation, Russia, is trying to help decide who their president should be,” they said.
Officials said this month that they have assessed that Russia is working to denigrate President Donald Trump’s Democratic opponent, Joe Biden. They have also said China prefers to see Trump lose and regards the president as unpredictable, but officials have not detailed specific steps Beijing had already taken to interfere in the election. source
Trump is pursuing a narrative of 'lawlessness on the streets'
Aug. 28 - US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says “the battle lines” for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign were made abundantly clear” in the President's lengthy address to the Republican National Convention. Mr Jackman told Sky News one line of attack was his appeal to the Republican base, while the other was “going after the law and order element”. “That is portraying the sense of an America that is descending into chaos and into crisis and that Trump stands between further degradation of that sort and people he’d like to vote for him,” he said. “There is still time for a politician and a performer like Donald Trump to make up that gap in the polls and there’s a lot of real world events to happen that may validate frankly the narrative that Trump is running at the moment about lawlessness on the streets of the United States. “Fear is a powerful motivator in politics and particularly … in a system where voting is not compulsory, something to motivate people.” Read source by click on "WATCH INTERVIEW"
Aug. 28 - US Studies Centre CEO Simon Jackman says “the battle lines” for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign were made abundantly clear” in the President's lengthy address to the Republican National Convention. Mr Jackman told Sky News one line of attack was his appeal to the Republican base, while the other was “going after the law and order element”. “That is portraying the sense of an America that is descending into chaos and into crisis and that Trump stands between further degradation of that sort and people he’d like to vote for him,” he said. “There is still time for a politician and a performer like Donald Trump to make up that gap in the polls and there’s a lot of real world events to happen that may validate frankly the narrative that Trump is running at the moment about lawlessness on the streets of the United States. “Fear is a powerful motivator in politics and particularly … in a system where voting is not compulsory, something to motivate people.” Read source by click on "WATCH INTERVIEW"
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