赫里奇说：“拉特克利夫负责17个情报部门，直接接触美国政府绝密情报。他告诉CBS新闻网，中国（中共）、伊朗和俄罗斯这些外国政府干预了2020年11月美国大选。他预计明年1月份会发布相关报告。”
有关外国政府干预大选一事，不久前被解雇的国土安全部CISA（网路安全和基础设施安全局）前局长克里斯托弗·克雷布斯（Christopher Krebs）曾否认川普团队这一指控，称“美国所有选票都在美国境内计票。”
前联邦检察官西德尼·鲍威尔（Sidney Powell）12月13日向联邦最高法院提交的文件（点击这里查看）中提及最新证词——两位法律专家指控2020年大选存在外国干预，Dominion投票机连接了海外国家系统。
鲍威尔表示，这两位军事情报分析师已签署宣誓证词，他们作证，来自dominionvoting.com网站的SSL认证曾在不同国家使用了多次，包括加拿大、塞尔维亚和美国。
另外，国家情报总监办公室已经确认，即将发布的报告会包括“外国政府对2020美国大选造成威胁”的相关信息。
国家情报总监办公室发言人阿曼达·肖克（Amanda Schoch）表示，美国情报系统自大选以来，已经收到相关报告，目前很多部门尚未完成协调工作，情报总监正努力确保尽快发布报告。
国家情报总监拉特克利夫12月16日宣布，他接到各情报机构的通知，无法在12月18日之前提交针对外国政府干预美国2020大选的评估报告。
12月18日是11月3日选举日之后的第45天。根据川普总统2018年签署的行政令（点击这里查看），情报总监应该在选举日之后45天内提交报告，最大程度确认是否有外国政府干预大选，以及如何干预、干预方式、参与者和授权者。
Photo of John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence, is shown in a file photo. (Andrew Harnik/POOL/AFP)
CBS News senior reporter Catherine Herridge said U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe determined there was foreign government interference in the 2020 U.S. election.
Herridge said, "Ratcliffe is in charge of 17 intelligence units and has direct access to top-secret U.S. government intelligence. He told CBS News that foreign governments - China (Communist Party of China), Iran and Russia - interfered in the November 2020 U.S. election. He expects to release a report on this in January next year."
Regarding foreign government interference in the election, Christopher Krebs, the recently fired former director of the Department of Homeland Security's CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), had denied the allegation by the Trump team, saying that "all votes in the United States are counted within the United States."
Former federal prosecutor Sidney Powell's Dec. 13 filing with the federal Supreme Court (click here to view) refers to the latest testimony - in which two legal experts alleged foreign interference in the 2020 election and that Dominion voting machines were connected to overseas national systems.
Powell said the two military intelligence analysts have signed sworn testimony in which they testified that the SSL certification from the dominionvoting.com website had been used multiple times in different countries, including Canada, Serbia and the United States.
In addition, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has confirmed that the upcoming report will include information about "threats posed by foreign governments to the 2020 U.S. elections.
Amanda Schoch, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said the U.S. intelligence system has received reports since the election, and many departments have not yet completed their coordination efforts, and the director is working to ensure that the report is released as soon as possible.
Director of National Intelligence Ratcliffe announced Dec. 16 that he was notified by the intelligence agencies that he would not be able to submit an assessment of foreign government interference in the U.S. 2020 election by Dec. 18.
Dec. 18 is the 45th day after Election Day, Nov. 3. According to an executive order signed by President Trump in 2018 (click here to view), the Director of Intelligence is supposed to submit a report within 45 days of Election Day that confirms to the greatest extent possible whether a foreign government interfered in the election, as well as how, how, the participants and those who authorized it.