One American official told The Times that the intelligence finding that Russians had paid bounties for killing US soldiers had been briefed at the highest levels of the White House. Another said it was included in the President’s Daily Brief document.
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The WH did not challenge that the NSC convened an interagency meeting about what to do about the report in March. McEnany did not explain why such info would have been kept from Trump, nor indicate whether he was upset at his subordinates for purportedly withholding it from him.
Nor has the Trump administration challenged the reporting that the White House has not authorized any response to the months-old intelligence conclusion.
