A little too little, a little too late

A little too little, a little too late

by digby

Please. Waiting until three months before the election to call for a meeting about election security is a joke:

President Donald Trump will chair a full meeting of the National Security Council on Friday to discuss election security, two White House officials said.

National security adviser John Bolton is also hosting two Cabinet-level NSC principals committee meetings this week: one Thursday focused on Iran and one Friday on North Korea, the officials said. Bolton has come under criticism from some Trump administration officials for holding few high-level NSC meetings.

The meeting on election security comes about a week after Trump appeared to raise doubts about the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was continuing to target the United States. He later said he believes his administration’s statements on the issue.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that Russia will try to interfere in this year’s mid-term elections, echoing their efforts to disrupt the 2016 presidential election in a bid to boost Trump.

“We have been clear in our assessments of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy, and we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our national security,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said last week after Trump seemed to side with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the subject during a press conference in Helsinki.

I’m sure they haven’t convened a meeting until now because Trump has been too busy. He has a lot of tweeting and TV watching to do.

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