Senator Ron Johnson has written a column for the Daily Caller titled “FBI Ignoring Real Threats to Election Integrity” in which he blasted the FBI for an omission in a recent briefing they gave to all U.S. senators who chose to attend on threats to U.S. elections. He said they left out what he called “the most egregious act of election interference in our lifetime.”
The briefing was called an “All Members Classified Briefing on Foreign Threats to U.S. Elections” and it was held in the Senate SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) on Sept. 25. Johnson said he arrived a little late, during the presentation of Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence. Her presentation was followed by FBI Director Christopher Wray and CISA Director Jen Easterly.
“With straight faces, these directors of federal intelligence and law enforcement were once again warning the U.S. Senate that foreign actors were trying to influence our election. Well, duh!,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, most of my Senate colleagues seemed to be lapping it up and taking the briefing seriously. After a few minutes of listening to Director Haines, I could only shake my head in disgust.”
While saying he takes the foreign threats seriously, and acknowledges that they been “persistent for decades,” Johnson wrote that he “heard absolutely nothing about the most egregious examples of election interference in our lifetime, or the most significant threats to the integrity of the 2024 election.” […]
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