2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: McMillen:"I know for a fact" that GOP knew about RUSSIAN ELECTION MEDDLING [View all]From the WaPo article you cite:
(Re; the September bi-partisan intelligence briefing ordered by Obama)
In a secure room in the capital used for briefings involving classified material, administration officials broadly laid out the evidence U.S. spy agencies had collected, showing Russia's role in cyber-intrusions in at least two states and the hacking of emails of the Democratic organizations and individuals.
And they made a case for a united, bipartisan front in response to what one official described as "the threat posed by unprecedented meddling by a foreign power in our election process."
Some Clinton supporters saw the White House's reluctance to act without bipartisan support as further evidence of an excessive caution in facing adversaries:
"The lack of an administration response on the Russian hacking cannot be attributed to Congress," said Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who was at the September meeting,
"The administration has all the tools it needs to respond.
They have the ability to impose sanctions.
They have the ability to take clandestine means.
The administration has decided NOT TO UTILIZE THEM IN A WAY THAT WOULD DETER THE RUSSIANS, and I think that's the problem."