(CNN) President-elect Joe Biden's transition team on Wednesday disputed suggestions from Pentagon officials who questioned the accuracy of Biden's assertion a day earlier that the Department of Defense has refused to brief his team on the massive cyberattack on government agencies and major American technology and accounting companies. "As the President-elect noted yesterday, the Department of Defense has continued to refuse to meet with our Agency Review Team members," said Ned Price, a spokesman for the Biden transition, said in a statement to CNN. "There has been no substantial progress since transition officials spoke to the intransigence of the Department's political leadership late last week," Price said. "As we said then, no Department is more pivotal to our national security than the Department of Defense, and an unwillingness to work together could have consequences well beyond January 20." An unnamed Pentagon official denied the allegations in a statement, saying Biden's claim the Defense Department wouldn't brief his team was "patently false."

Source: CNN December 23, 2020 18:56 UTC