National Intelligence agency will no longer brief Congress in person on election security

[Takket]

Breaking on CNN the Intelligence community will no longer provide in person reports on election security to either a House or Senate intelligence Committees. They will provide a “written summary”.

In other words the intelligence community is being muzzled by the administration to keep Russian election interference activities that will surely be ramping up to a fevered pitch in the next two months, hidden from Congress.

This is an OUTRAGE.

[rockfordfile]

1. This is a big story

[Cetacea]

2. K&R

Huge.

[marybourg]

3. I think Congress will have something to say about that.

[C_U_L8R]

4. What's the definition of Contempt?

Perhaps they'd like a ride to Congress courtesy of the Sergeant at Arms

[Desert grandma]

5. Not just an Outrage. This is also frightening.

WE MUST GET OUT THE VOTE AND WIN IN NOVEMBER!! And by an overwhelming number, too. I can't think about the possibility that he will cheat his way into keeping power, because should that happen, it will force us to leave this country as soon as it is possible to do so. We refuse to live in a country with a tyrannical dictator in power. Hopefully, Mexico will still let people in.

[Iliyah]

6. The fix is in . . .

maybe, vote in large numbers . . ..

[Nevilledog]

7. Takes away the opportunity to ask questions

Link to tweet

[SheltieLover]

8. Putin

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Conspiratorial Wink!

[Nitram]

9. WHAT?!?!

[jalan48]

10. The executive branch has become more powerful than any other branch. Our system is out of balance.

[JHB]

12. Not entirely true. The tools for Congress to check the executive branch are there. However...

...the Republicans have gone out of their way to prevent those tools from being used.

Anything will be off-balance if the balancing system is being sabotaged.

This isn't just a Trump problem, it's a Republican problem. They are letting him do this.

[jalan48]

15. From an article in the Washington Post. I agree Congress should act, but it won't. How many

Democrats voted for the Patriot Act after 9-11? Our system has changed with the consent of both parties and here we are today.

Yet over time, as experts approvingly concede, the president has become the main agent within U.S. democracy. Presidential government replaced congressional government over the course of the 20th century. This is no simple shift in the Constitution’s architecture — it’s an unbalancing of the Framers’ design and a hard one to stop. The executive office accrues unprecedented, unconstitutional powers with each new president. As individuals, they are hardly to blame. They are doing their job, faithfully executing the growing powers of the office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/08/the-growth-of-executive-power-has-turned-politics-into-war/

[ElementaryPenguin]

11. F*CK THEM! Subpoena them to testify!!!!

It isn't up to them how they will comply with the oversight of Congress.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. +1000

[Keth]

13. So

no live briefings to Congress and the President can't be bothered to read the daily intel. Who's minding the store?