( CNN) Breaking with their House Republican counterparts, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday that the intelligence community properly concluded in January of last year that Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to help Donald Trump when Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.
The Senate report said that the intelligence community's assessment of Russia's purposes were sound, which is at odds with the House Intelligence Committee Republicans' report that found “significant intelligence tradecraft failings” in the assessment of Putin's objectives.
“The Committee has spent the last 16 months reviewing the sources, tradecraft and analytic work underpinning the Intelligence Community Assessment and assures no reason to dispute the conclusions, ” Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement, reiterating what he had initially said in May.
