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jmg257

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9. Im not sure..."A day after the 13 February briefing to the House intelligence committee"

Sat Feb 22, 2020, 05:23 PM

Feb 2020

The Washington Post reported on Friday U.S officials have briefed President Trump, other lawmakers on Capitol Hill and Sanders, who has recently become the frontrunner in the Democratic contest, that Russians are helping his campaign.

The Post's report was published the day after The New York Times reported that House lawmakers were told by U.S. officials last week that Russia was also attempting to interfere in the 2020 elections to help the campaign of President Trump.

Sanders told reporters on the campaign trail Friday that he was briefed on Russian interference efforts "about a month ago," speculating that the news of potential Russian interference efforts came out now because it was on the eve of the Nevada caucuses.

On Thursday, CNN and other outlets reported that the intelligence community's top election security official delivered a briefing to lawmakers last week warning them that the intelligence community believes Russia is already taking steps to interfere in the 2020 election to help Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/bernie-sanders-russia-election-interference/index.html

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I think that the fact that no OTHER Senators 'told us a month ago' about the briefing ... matters [View all] mr_lebowski Feb 2020 OP

A LOT to read. I think the others didn't find out till last week when they got a classified brief. jmg257 Feb 2020 #1

I think that if Dems leadership was told and it was their choice to tell or not tell, nothing and Autumn Feb 2020 #2

They'd have been at microphones by the end of the day ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #5

Yep - once it went public with trump last week, all bets were off on keeping it secret. jmg257 Feb 2020 #11

The Post article says that members of the House Intelligence Committee were totodeinhere Feb 2020 #6

Im not sure..."A day after the 13 February briefing to the House intelligence committee" jmg257 Feb 2020 #9

Bernie was told separately Bev54 Feb 2020 #3

Exactly... BlueIdaho Feb 2020 #31

So the Democratic Establishment was protecting Bernie from potential damage? Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #4

I'm willing to argue both sides of this, to be clear ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #8

It's really not that difficult Prue Feb 2020 #7

Uh-huh ... okay ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #18

I'm not a fly Prue Feb 2020 #20

If you're Bernie, and only YOU know ... you have NO IDEA whether this was a complete set-up by Trump mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #24

You're peddling a Trump talking point Prue Feb 2020 #26

Well, I don't know who briefed him exactly, do you? mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #30

He's been around the block a few times Prue Feb 2020 #34

Pete is actually my guy, that's what funny ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #36

I enjoyed our exchange Prue Feb 2020 #38

The briefing to the senate was just last week on February 13 Fiendish Thingy Feb 2020 #10

Yes - seems so..."security official delivered a briefing to lawmakers last week" jmg257 Feb 2020 #13

See my post #18 ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #21

Almost as long as the OP..Ill pass. Bernie does not argue re: who or how he was told. jmg257 Feb 2020 #22

This isn't something like 'Hey, Bernie, your wife is getting some on the side' ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #27

They did the same thing with trump in 2016. Why is it so hard to believe? jmg257 Feb 2020 #28

Because that was a different time, and because Obama was in charge mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #32

Im not telling you anything -really. I actually forget what the point was! Bernie knew a month ago jmg257 Feb 2020 #33

Okay ... well the whole point of the post is to try to figure out logically ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #35

I agree. But he has to know its a bad look, so why not say why? Someone from his campaign jmg257 Feb 2020 #37

I think this is over complicated stopdiggin Feb 2020 #12

Your whole long post is based on a lie CalFione Feb 2020 #14

Well he did say "I think..." "I think that the fact that..." jmg257 Feb 2020 #16

See my post #18 ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #19

The public knew!! It was all over the news a week ago when they found out! jmg257 Feb 2020 #23

Democrats didn't go to the mike and announce it, though, did they? nt mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #40

You are correct. That is a good question! Usually they are all over an op to chew up trump on. jmg257 Feb 2020 #41

The only Democrats that we're briefed were the House intel committee CalFione Feb 2020 #25

Do you have proof that what Bernie was told he was informed he was free to tell the world mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #39

Putin is using Sanders and Trump as weapons against the U.S. Hortensis Feb 2020 #15

another niggling thought that bothers me dweller Feb 2020 #17

confusion, discord, infighting, distrust of election results. jg10003 Feb 2020 #29