Washington, Nov 18,2020: US President-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris have received a briefing from the national security experts about the diplomatic, defence and intelligence challenges facing the country.
The US government agency that launches the transition process – the General Services Administration (GSA), headed by a Trump appointee – has not yet recognised Democrats Biden and Harris as winners of the November 3 presidential election.
The administrator of the GSA, Emily W Murphy, an appointee of incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, has so far refused to take the legally necessary step to begin the transition process, which would give Biden’s team a budget, intelligence briefings and access to federal agencies.
The Biden-Harris Transition said on Tuesday that the experts briefed them on the diplomatic, defence and intelligence challenges the administration will inherit on day one, focusing on both the strategic landscape as well as the readiness of our foreign policy and national security departments and agencies.
Such a briefing comes in the absence of an official daily intelligence briefing by the outgoing Trump administration to Biden and Harris.
Since President Donald Trump has refused to concede the November 3 election, the administration is unable to provide the daily intelligence and national security briefing to Biden and Harris.
Trump has launched a slew of lawsuits in key states, but has not provided any evidence to back his claims of fraud.
