What Obama should have said at the press conference

[Richard D]

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So today I am calling upon Congress to pass a law that will delay this year’s meeting of the Electoral College by 14 days. If Congress won’t do it, I think the state legislatures need to step in and do it. And if the states won’t do it, the Department of Justice is going to ask the courts for an injunction to give us those 14 days. It would not be right for the electors to cast their votes now, with so much uncertainty in the air about the facts of what happened during the election. We need to ensure that this next phase of transferring power to the future president is not tainted by bad information.

I am also instructing James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, to arrange for briefings to any elector who wants one. Fifty-six electors have signed a letter asking for an intelligence briefing on Russia’s role in this election. They want access to the best possible information before they cast their votes. As president, I see it as my duty to provide it.

Director Clapper has also agreed to immediately declassify and release as much of our intelligence on the election as possible. You should see those files appearing in your email in-boxes by this evening. They’ll be PDFs. I suggest that you run them through a virus scanner before you click on them. Careless clicking, after all, is part of what got us here in the first place.

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https://theintercept.com/2016/12/18/what-president-obama-should-have-said-at-his-last-press-conference/