QUESTION: How did Sanders waiting to denounce assistance from Russia help America's elections?

[uponit7771]

QUESTION: How did Sanders waiting to denounce assistance from Russia help America's elections?

I'm trying to be objective here in my thinking and would like your input on this question?

Thx in advance for your input

[boston bean]

1. Good question. I await the responses.

My answer is not one damn thing.

[UniteFightBack]

10. I self deleted. I should get out of this forum it's a mine field. nt

[uponit7771]

13. NO not yours mine ... I can recognize the FUD here though

[Blue_true]

20. You just have to cool down before you post. I lost it with a supporter

of one candidate earlier this week. If you just post with fire shooting out of your eyes and hit the post key, you are likely going to write silly stuff, that is what happened to me.

[Garrett78]

3. I wouldn't think he was at liberty to say anything until it became public knowledge.

Candidates and members of Congress are told all sorts of things that the public never finds out about barring investigative reporting. An FBI briefing of this nature would be classified.

[VarryOn]

6. That's my guess, too. Nt

[uponit7771]

12. Sanders didn't have to reveal sources or methods etc. He could've smartly made statements that

... didn't have to refer to intel he received.

Anyone accepting help from the Russians or outside nations is a freakin traitor ... that's off the top of my head.

[Garrett78]

14. What exactly should he have said?

[uponit7771]

17. I gave example

[Garrett78]

19. Sanders has repeatedly slammed Russia for interfering in our elections, going back years.

Just as he did today. And, as he said, he receives many intelligence briefings that he doesn't share with the public. As do all members of Congress.

[blue cat]

31. 2016

He denied and denied it and then blamed Hillary.

[sheshe2]

18. Mueller report happened months ago addressing someting that happened years ago.

He was named. Unclassified, yet most redacted by Barr.

[Blue_true]

21. So I will play along. How does it become "public knowledge" if your speculation that the info was

top secret is true. Also, if it was too secret, why would they tell a blabber-mouth like Trump?

[Garrett78]

23. Like I said, sometimes these things become public due to investigative reporting.

Sometimes people with an agenda leak information.

It's not like this is unheard of.

[Blue_true]

29. You keep moving the target. If what you speculated is true, a

minimum of Warren, Klobuchar and Gabbard would have been secretly briefed as members of Congress, AND because they are challenging Sanders for the nomination. Now that it is public, neither has acknowledged having been briefed.

Since speculation seems to be the name of the game, what I believe is Bernie purposely keep the information secret, knowing that disclosing it would seriously damage him in Iowa and New Hampshire.

[Garrett78]

35. No, I simply repeated the same thing I said back in post #3. And I quote:

"Candidates and members of Congress are told all sorts of things that the public never finds out about barring investigative reporting."

We have no clue what other campaigns were told, or if there would have been any point to telling them.

But, hey, make political hay when you can, right?

[lapucelle]

27. That's not what BS said.

Sanders told reporters Friday after The Post’s report was published that he received the briefing “about a month ago.” Asked why he did not disclose the briefing publicly, Sanders replied, “Because I go to many intelligence briefings which I don’t reveal to the public.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/bernie-sanders-briefed-by-us-officials-that-russia-is-trying-to-help-his-presidential-campaign/2020/02/21/5ad396a6-54bd-11ea-929a-64efa7482a77_story.html

[Moderateguy]

34. What's his excuse now?

All he has done since the news came out earlier today is accuse the WAPo and rail against the establishment

[Garrett78]

36. Excuse for what?

Like he told the press when asked why he didn't make an announcement at the time, he gets lots of intelligence briefings and doesn't make any of them public. The same goes for every member of Congress. They aren't at liberty to do so.

[Moderateguy]

37. Excuse for doing something about the Russian Interference...

He could have launched an internal investigation or something to make sure no one in his campaign was colluding with the Russians

[Jersey Devil]

4. A month of Russian Facebook pro Bernie bot posts

That would do it

[R B Garr]

5. All of the "surge" brouhaha about Sanders started about a

month ago, too. Strange...

[uponit7771]

9. +1, jus damn ...

[TwilightZone]

16. Yeah, the timing is interesting.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

[Blue_true]

22. Yep, on the money. nt

[Maru Kitteh]

26. Pretty amazing coincidence there

[emmaverybo]

32. Absolutely amazing.

[ecstatic]

8. Maybe he views America as being an extension of himself?

Help America's elections = Help Bernie's elections.

[krissey]

11. If you are talking in the past, he shifted the blame on HRC for not "fixing" it.

[uponit7771]

15. WOW !!! Recently ?!

[betsuni]

25. 2018:

http://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-trump-hillary-clinton-816239

[pansypoo53219]

24. i liked his response that CNN had. it was very presidential to me.

[Autumn]

28. Has the FBI or whatever agency who found this information made a statement?

I would think it would be up to them to brief the media on this.

[NurseJackie]

30. Good question. Fair question. Answer: IT DID NOT!

He completely FAILED HIS FIRST TEST OF LEADERSHIP. He did the WRONG THING!

He's forever disqualified.

The person that I eventually select to vote for will be someone who has the temperament and the demeanor and the HONOR AND ETHICS to be the leader of the free world.

[gibraltar72]

33. He would have been breaking the law. That was classified.