Former CIA chief Brennan testifies in Russia probe

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/john-brennan-house-intelligence-committee/

 

"It should be clear to everyone that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 process"

 

can't hang out in certain places then...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-warned-russian-security-service-chief-about-interference-in-election/2017/05/23/ebff2a7e-3fbb-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html

 

brennan warned Russian security service chief about interference in elections last year

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11 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/23/politics/john-brennan-house-intelligence-committee/

 

"It should be clear to everyone that Russia brazenly interfered in our 2016 process"

 

can't hang out in certain places then...

 

He needs to stay away from windows.

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And jacuzzis

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Brennan : "FSB head said he would relay my warning to Putin. I also personally briefed the "Gang of 8" Dems and GOl in August-September 2026."

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Gowdy: Did you see any evidence of collusion?

Brennan: I saw information intelligence that was worthy of investigation by the bureau

Edited May 23, 2017 by Jacque67

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Frequently, people who go along a treasonous path do not know they are on a treasonous path until it is too late," Brennan said.

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Donald Trump and his allies insist that there’s no evidence whatsoever of collusion between the Kremlin and Trump Tower. The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency isn’t so sure.

John Brennan, Barack Obama’s third CIA director, told Congress he has “unresolved questions” over whether Russia succeeded in getting Donald Trump associates to do their bidding, “wittingly or unwittingly.”

Questioned aggressively by leading panel Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, Brennan repeatedly pushed back against saying if he saw “evidence” of “collusion” between Trump and Russia – a framing favored by the White House and its GOP allies, who argue no such collusion exists.

“I don’t do evidence, I do intelligence,” Brennan said, saying the FBI was the proper agency to follow up as to whether the identified ties amount to evidence – a term with legal connotation and implication – of what Gowdy called “collusion, collaboration or conspiracy.” 

“I don’t know whether or not such collusion – that’s your word – existed, I do not. But I know there was a sufficient basis of information and intelligence that required further investigation by the bureau to determine whether U.S. persons were actively conspiring, colluding, with Russian officials,” Brennan said.

Brennan declined to specify who in Trump’s orbit prompted those concerns, repeatedly using the euphemism “U.S. persons” in an occasionally testy public hearing on Tuesday of the House intelligence committee’s Russia investigation. 

But Brennan revealed that starting in late July, his “unresolved questions” about such “contacts and interactions” with Russian officials that led him to pass highly classified intelligence to the FBI for what would become the ongoing FBI investigation of Trump’s associates, now helmed by former director Robert Mueller. 

While Brennan left open the prospect those ties “might have been benign,” they came in the context of Russia’s summer 2016 push to interfere in the presidential election, Brennan said, and so “seeing these types of contacts and interactions in the same amount of time raised my concern.”

The former CIA director also revealed that he personally called the head of Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, on August 4, 2016 to “warn” him that Russian interference in the election would “destroy any near-term prospect for improvement in relations” with Washington. Brennan said his call, which came with White House consent, was the first official interaction with the Russians on the election hacking.

Bortnikov denied “Russia was doing anything to influence our presidential election and that Moscow is a traditional target of blame by Washington for such activities,” which Brennan said was an “expected” reaction by the FSB chief.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/23/ex-cia-boss-has-unresolved-questions-about-russians-co-opting-team-trump.html

first time a US official has said directly in public that team-trump and Russians in collusion.

Edited May 23, 2017 by Jacque67

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I still fail to see any evidence. Just another hack with political motivations making wild claims with nothing to back them up.