Nancy Pelosi knows better, but on Monday, she chose partisan politics over national security.

I note this in light of the House speaker’s letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and CIA Director Gina Haspel. Responding to New York Times reporting on a Russian GRU intelligence service plot to pay the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, Pelosi is demanding an intelligence briefing for all 435 House members. As Pelosi puts it, “Congress needs to know what the intelligence community knows about this significant threat to American troops.”