House Intel Cmte. Chairman Schiff warns that US intelligence suggests multiple nations could be trying to interfere in the 2020 US elections, including possibly 'laundering' disinformation through Congress.
The Intelligence Committee chairman's comments come after he and other top Democrats called on FBI Director Christopher Wray in aon Monday to provide a counterintelligence briefing to Congress before the August recess about efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
The letter was signed by Schiff, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Intelligence Committee ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va.
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