. @RepAdamSchiff: ODNI "proposed coming to brief us in mid-September. They have now canceled the briefings that they proposed. So someone has given an edict that they cannot brief the Congress any further on how foreign nations are trying to interfere in the election...
2/ “And we have certainly seen the president both impervious to being told himself about election interference by the Russians and irate when the intelligence community did brief Congress on election interference by the Russians...
3/“... “In fact, it has been reported that was one of the reasons he fired (former ODNI Admiral Joseph) Maguire, is because Maguire briefed Congress on election interference by the Russians...
4/“... It's pretty transparent that they don't want Congress to know and they don't want the American people to know about election interference particularly about attempted Russian interference in the election."
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