Rep. Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffTop Democrats call for DOJ watchdog to probe Barr over possible 2020 election influence Overnight Defense: Top admiral says 'no condition' where US should conduct nuclear test 'at this time' | Intelligence chief says Congress will get some in-person election security briefings Overnight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies MORE (D-Calif.) blasted CIA Director Mike Pompeo Michael (Mike) Richard PompeoUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election Trump steps up Iran fight in final election stretch MORE on Thursday for “minimizing the significance” of Russian meddling in the 2016 election after Pompeo said intelligence agencies had determined the meddling had no effect on the election.

“I was deeply disappointed to learn that CIA Director Pompeo today asserted that the intelligence community had found that Russian interference in our election did not affect the outcome,” Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement.

“In fact, the Intelligence community made no such finding, nor could it. As the agencies made clear in their January assessment.”

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Schiff slammed Pompeo, saying it was “not the job of the intelligence community” to say whether Russian meddling was “determinative in such a close election” and warned the CIA chief against making similar statements in the future.

“This is not the first time the Director has made statements minimizing the significance of what the Russians did, but it needs to be the last,” Schiff said.

“The fact that the machines which tabulated the votes were unaltered, does not mean that the influence campaign did not have its intended effect, and the head of our intelligence agencies must not allow themselves to suggest otherwise,” Schiff continued. “That is a presidential talking point, not an agency conclusion.”

Pompeo said during a security conference in Washington earlier Thursday that "the intelligence community’s assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did not affect the outcome of the election."

But while the January intelligence community report said that Russia had sought to disrupt the 2016 presidential election and sway the race in President Trump's favor, the report pointed out that no assessment was made regarding Russia’s success.

"We did not make an assessment of the impact that Russian activities had on the outcome of the 2016 election," the report reads. "The US Intelligence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors; it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion."

A CIA spokesperson sought to clarify Pompeo’s remarks after the conference.

“The intelligence assessment with regard to Russian election meddling has not changed,” Ryan Trapani, a CIA spokesman, told The Washington Post, “and the director did not intend to suggest that it had.”