similar report in cbs article
U.S. officials brief Congress on election security
https://news.yahoo.com/u-officials-brief-congress-election-015018763.html
Top law enforcement and intelligence community officials briefed members of Congress on election security in a pair of panels Tuesday afternoon, telling lawmakers they had "nothing to support" the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin favored one candidate or another or had ordered actions on any given candidate's behalf. They said the Russian government's objective was to sow discord in U.S. political processes, sources said.
Three sources familiar with Tuesday's briefing said there were inconsistencies between the election security assessment delivered Tuesday and the one given to the House Intelligence Committee last month.
It appeared to two sources familiar with both February's and Tuesday's briefings that the assessment delivered Tuesday was crafted to avoid saying the Russian government had established a preference for Mr. Trump, a conclusion that had been expressed by representatives from multiple intelligence agencies before that panel in February.
Lawmakers were also briefed last month on Russia's efforts to boost Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders' campaign.
Separately, three sources also said the intelligence community has not yet furnished intelligence that members of both parties had requested in the February closed-door session that supported the assessment that the Russian government had developed a preference for President Trump.
Richard Grenell, the acting director of national intelligence, was not among the officials briefing members of the House and Senate. President Trump made the controversial decision to tap Grenell as acting DNI last month. Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, has virtually no national intelligence experience.
Members heard from FBI Director Christopher Wray, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs, and Assistant Attorney General John Demers, among other officials. Instead of Grenell, Bill Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, represented the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
An ODNI spokesperson said that the FBI and DHS are in charge of securing the U.S. elections, and the intelligence community was participating in the briefings "in support of that mission." The intelligence community's efforts are focused on "detecting and countering foreign election-related threats," the spokesperson said.
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