Senate Intelligence Committee members, including some Republicans, are standing by their panel’s findings on “extensive” Russian interference in the 2016 election despite new allegations from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that the Obama administration “manufactured intelligence.”
The 2020 bipartisan report, released in several tranches over the course of a year under a GOP-controlled chamber, concluded that Kremlin-backed efforts to sway the United States election for then-candidate Donald Trump did not affect vote-tallying or involve the Trump campaign but still occurred.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), a longtime leadership adviser and member of the Intel panel, defended the Senate’s previous findings of foreign meddling. However, Sen. Cornyn sided with Gabbard in suggesting Obama officials should face repercussions for pushing the collusion narrative that Trump was involved in
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