Senate Intel Committee's final report on Russian election interference submitted for classification review
by Jerry Dunleavy
| May 15, 2020 02:48 PM
The Senate Intelligence Committee submitted the fifth and final volume of its bipartisan investigation report on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election to the nation’s top spy agency to be reviewed for classified information.
Chairman Richard Burr, the Republican senator from North Carolina who is stepping down from his post Friday amid an FBI investigation into allegations that he engaged in stock trades based upon classified congressional briefings, and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, sent the roughly 1,000-page report over to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to be scrutinized for any classified details before its anticipated release this summer in the midst of the 2020 presidential election contest.
“In addition to submitting the full, classified report, and in order to help facilitate the Intelligence Community’s review, we have also submitted what we assess to be a properly redacted, unclassified version of the report, totaling nearly 1,000 pages,†Burr and Warner said. “It is our hope that ODNI can expeditiously review these documents so that the Committee can consider, vote on, and release the report as soon as possible.â€
The senators added that they “want to thank the talented and tireless staff who have contributed to the Committee’s investigation†and that “the work they’ve done has already greatly added to our understanding of and response to foreign threats to our democratic process.â€
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