June 20 (UPI) -- Bipartisan leaders of an investigation into Russia's influence on the 2016 U.S. presidential election on Wednesday criticized the Obama administration for not doing more to fight it.
Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in a hearing that Obama administration officials had no plan to deal with the threat of a foreign power meddling in the 2016 presidential election. It was not until January 2017 that intelligence agencies publicly revealed that Russia was working to defeat Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to the advantage of Republican candidate Donald Trump.