Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee, says he expects that he and the GOP Chair Richard Burr will reach agreement on a final report in their Russia investigation that can be released in the coming months.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intel Committee, says he expects that he and the Republican chair, Sen. Richard Burr, will reach agreement on a final report in their Russia investigation that can be released in the coming months.
Last Tuesday, the Senate Intel Committee issued its fourth report in the series, backing the U.S. intelligence community’s findings concluding that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election to help elect Donald Trump. But the fifth report — focusing on links between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign — is by far the most controversial and the most likely to divide the panel along partisan lines.
“I’m very proud of the fact that our committee has stayed bipartisan — three years of an investigation, four reports — all unanimous,” Warner said. “Russia intervened in 2016, they did it to help Trump, to hurt Clinton. They did it using social media, they did it in terms of trying to manipulate our elections, and they will be back. And that is a critical item that we need to keep front and center, particularly when our attention can be taken up by COVID-19.
Story continues“There is not a single Senate-appointed individual in the Director of National Intelligence Office at this moment,” Warner said. “Anyone that’s been there that was Senate-appointed has been fired or forced to resign. And my fear is that this administration and this White House does not want the intelligence community to continue to speak truth to power.
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