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I've reached my free article limit on Bloomberg. It would great if someone with access could post some excerpts.
Iggo
(47,561 posts)Someone competent, I mean.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)oasis
(49,393 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)country and institutions than the president.
Think about that.
Cha
(297,378 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,771 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)GO JOE!!
Cha
(297,378 posts)onecaliberal
(32,874 posts)canetoad
(17,171 posts)We know from before and I guarantee you I know now because now I get briefings again -- the Russians are still engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral process. Fact, the former vice president said during a fundraiser organized by lawyers that included general counsels from roughly 100 companies.
China and others are engaged as well in activities designed for us to lose confidence in the outcome of the November election, he added.
Biden had not been briefed as recently as June 30, when he said at a press conference that he very well may ask for access to intelligence about reports that Russia had offered bounties for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-18/biden-says-he-s-getting-intel-briefs-warns-of-russian-meddling
EleanorR
(2,393 posts)JI7
(89,254 posts)over what Biden is seeing ?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)guidance back.
crickets
(25,981 posts)tanyev
(42,583 posts)Rock, paper, scissors, short straw, etc.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)May get garroted with a stray piano wire, or strange stuff on your office doorknob.
But yeah, I can see them fighting to avoid the idiot Trump.
Baitball Blogger
(46,747 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)iluvtennis
(19,864 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And no one in the IC was going to tell him. Of course, it is the law.
I guarantee you he found about this when we did.
Expect an eruption shortly.
klook
(12,160 posts)"He's using the secret camera Obama installed in the microwave!!1!"
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Its going to drive him more insane. Everything he gets Joe gets. Only Joe will actually read it.
klook
(12,160 posts)Captain Zero
(6,818 posts)nt
Hekate
(90,737 posts)...notes.
Something in this news makes me really happy.
cstanleytech
(26,303 posts)they are not in office anymore.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Grins
(7,218 posts)Unlike....
getagrip_already
(14,778 posts)He would probably blow a blood vessel if he found out that joe and barack still have scif's.
BigmanPigman
(51,613 posts)ellie
(6,929 posts)At least an adult knows what is going on.
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-18/biden-says-he-s-getting-intel-briefs-warns-of-russian-meddling
Biden Begins Receiving Intel Briefs, Warns of Russian Meddling
By Jennifer Epstein
July 17, 2020, 5:07 PM MST Updated on July 17, 2020, 8:19 PM MST
--He also accuses China of plotting to sap election confidence
--Biden hits Trump over reports that he doesnt read briefings
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said he is receiving intelligence briefings and warned Friday about Russian interference in the 2020 election.
We know from before and I guarantee you I know now because now I get briefings again -- the Russians are still engaged in trying to delegitimize our electoral process. Fact, the former vice president said during a fundraiser organized by lawyers that included general counsels from roughly 100 companies.
China and others are engaged as well in activities designed for us to lose confidence in the outcome of the November election, Biden added.
A Biden campaign official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the briefings had begun and said the candidate also receives advice from his team of national security experts.
Biden had not been briefed as recently as June 30, when he said at a press conference that he very well may ask for access to intelligence about reports that Russia had offered bounties for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan.
The White House did not immediately comment. The office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment.
Biden has repeatedly criticized Donald Trump after reports that the president doesnt read the Presidential Daily Brief and receives only infrequent verbal briefings. On the Russian bounty reports, Biden said the idea that somehow he didnt know, or isnt being briefed, it is a dereliction of duty, if thats the case. He added that if Trump was briefed and nothing was done about this, thats a dereliction of duty.
In 2016, nominees Hillary Clinton and Trump were offered the opportunity to be briefed beginning in early August. The director of National Intelligence has indicated he intends to conduct those briefings pursuant to that longstanding tradition and he certainly is supported by this administration and this White House in doing so, Josh Earnest, the then-White House press secretary, said in late July of that year.