Intelligence Director Says Agencies Agree on Russian Meddling
Intelligence Director Says Agencies Agree on Russian Meddling
BY KEN DILANIAN JUL 21 2017, 9:35 PM ET
ASPEN, Colorado — Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, said Friday there is no dissent inside U.S. intelligence agencies about the conclusion that Russia used hacking and fake news to interfere in the 2016 presidential election — despite comments by his boss, President Donald Trump, that have seemed to cast some doubt about the unanimity.
In an interview with NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt at the Aspen Security Forum, Coats said that the reason only four of 17 intelligence agencies signed onto the January assessment describing the Russian effort is that the other agencies were not involved in gathering and analyzing the intelligence.
Coats said he had no doubt that the Russians “are trying to undermine Western democracy.”
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