The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a statement saying the intelligence community will not hit the deadline for reporting on foreign threats during the November election.
It said Director John Ratcliffe was notified on Wednesday, two days before the Dec. 18 deadline for the report.
It stated, “The (Intelligence Community) has received relevant reporting since the election and a number of agencies have not finished coordinating on the product.”
A spokeswoman for the office added that Ratcliffe remains committed to an expeditious release of the report.
The report relates to an Executive Order the president signed in 2018.
The order expects the DNI to assess “to the maximum extent ascertainable” whether any attempts at interference took place, and give details of this.
In the 2018 order, President Trump declared election interference a national emergency.
It included the threat of “unauthorized accessing of election and campaign infrastructure or the covert distribution of propaganda and disinformation” to undermine public confidence in U.S. elections.
It also mentioned foreign actors “altering the outcome or vote tabulation.”
Following the DNI’s delivery of the report, the attorney general, and the secretary of homeland security would have another 45 days to evaluate the report and make a determination. One outcome of the determination is automatic sanctions on bad actors named in the report.
