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The intelligence community assessment on foreign influence in the 2020 election has been delayed as senior intelligence officials clash over the role played by China and as Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe seeks to include more viewpoints in the final analysis.
This comes four years after an assessment on Russian meddling in the 2016 election that is still contested by some, and the debates within the intelligence community show growing concern about Chinese Communist Party influence when compared to the Russia-focused report in the last presidential election. The backdrop of the debate is increased concern about Chinese influence against U.S. lawmakers, a massive SolarWinds hack suspected by many to have been conducted by Russia, and President Trump s refusal to concede to President-elect Joe Biden.
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EXCLUSIVE: The 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment focused on foreign election influence will be delayed, Fox News has learned, amid a dispute among senior intelligence analysts over whether China sought to influence the election. This afternoon the DNI was notified by career intelligence officials that the Intelligence Community will not meet the December 18 deadline, set by Executive Order and Congress, to submit the IC’s classified assessment on foreign threats to the 2020 U.S. elections, Amanda Schoch, Assistant DNI for Strategic Communications said in a statement to Fox News.
The modern meaning [of the fourth estate]. refers to the press as a fourth and free power as even a watchdog over the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our government. Today, however, it is the watchdog that needs watching.
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New York Times, as its editor-in-chief, Dean Baquet, admitted, to have built our newsroom around the fake Russia Hoax for two years, but substantiated facts concerning the Biden family s influence peddling were apparently not fit to print.
So far, still to be answered, is the question: If election officials can ignore legalities with impunity, how, going forward, can there be trustworthy elections?