The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee indicated Thursday that the select group of House and Senate members on intelligence matters was not adequately briefed on Russian issues ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

California Rep. Adam B. Schiff emerged from a roughly-three hour House Intelligence hearing with FBI Director James B. Comey, saying he had “absolutely” learned new information that the so-called gang of eight had not previously been looped in on.

The chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, along with the top party leaders in each chamber, receive additional secret national security information that other members do not receive.

“These are issues that should have been brought to the gang of eight, at a minimum. If we’re to get quarterly counterintelligence briefings, then we need the confidence of knowing that they’re briefing us on the most significant issues,” Schiff said.

“At this point, I think that’s very much in question,” he added. “I don’t think at all we’ve gotten the kind of quarterly briefings that we should have been getting. Not now, not in the summer, not in the fall and not even to this day.”