“If politicians turn the IC’s report into a Red vs. Blue shouting match, Putin gets a free pass.”

U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Intelligence Community’s unclassified report on Russian hacking. 

“If politicians turn the IC’s report into a Red vs. Blue shouting match, Putin gets a free pass. Moscow’s influence operations are aimed at undermining confidence in self-government and that’s an attack on who we are, not as Republicans or Democrats, but as free people. Instead of another round of Trump vs. Clinton, we need to debate a strong menu of responses that use all elements of national power - robust sanctions, diplomatic hardball, and other measures that upend Putin’s calculus.”