Thanks for answering. I will look for Barr's testimony.
I'm just curious about details of them looking into the election and wondering how they were able to determine everything was on the up and up so quickly while the rest of us spent time arguing whether any audits were needed in the first place.
It just brings up questions in my mind because I didn't think federal agencies had any hands on access to election data that hasn't been shared by the states. Let's not forget that election operations themselves aren't national and while the federal government has laws concerning elections, it doesn't operate them. Elections are supposed to be bottom-up with locals polls pushing their results up to aggregation points such that states vote with delegates for POTUS specifically. Obviously other races are local matters.
That said, I would expect 2 agencies in particular to have "access" to real-time results (not the REST feed supplied to media) since elections are now computerized: NSA and CISA.
I'm just genuinely curious about the details being that's in my domain. I miss the days when elected officials would speak on a topic by referencing the intelligence they received and then either referring to a report or allowing a spokesperson of the agency creating the report to speak on the matter. Seems there's less of that going on these days and too much narration asking us to take someone's word.
