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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*******BREAKING******* Brennan: Russia may have successfully recruited Trump campaign aides
Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Tuesday that he had concerns that Russian officials may have successfully recruited aides from Donald Trumps campaign to help in the Kremlins efforts to influence last years presidential election.
"I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals," he told lawmakers. "And it raised questions in my mind again whether or not the Russians were able to gain the cooperation of those individuals."
By the time he stepped down as CIA director on Jan. 20, he added, I had unresolved questions in my mind about whether or not the Russians had been successful in getting U.S. persons, involved in the campaign or not, to work on their behalf, again, either in a witting or unwitting fashion.
Therefore, Brennan added, I felt as though the FBI investigation was certainly well founded and needed to look into these issues.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/23/brennan-russia-tried-to-recruit-us-persons-to-influence-presidential-campaign-238719
underpants
(182,830 posts)Once again the Repubs are guiding by their media/propaganda
"No evidence!!!" is all you hear in their media. Of course, no evidence has been made public because these are ongoing investigationS but purposely giving an incomplete picture is their thing.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Everything else just fine...
coeur_de_lion
(3,680 posts)retrowire
(10,345 posts)That doesn't have "may have" in the title.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)William Seger
(10,779 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)catbyte
(34,403 posts)Please stop. If I had looked at those lights for a second or two more, I would've had to take a shot of Imitrex. My stomach started doing flip flops as it is. Unless all of your "breaking" stories will include that, then I won't open them.
Thanks.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)LeftInTX
(25,383 posts)Had to scroll away from it
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Could not see it. It's the same thing I do w those pop up flashing ads. If I can't move them, I just skip the story.
I do think they make people leave rather than pay attention.
dawnie51
(959 posts)this has happened. He would not have verbalized this "hypothesis" if he thought it was a "possible". He's OLD school. He is telling the country that this IS the case. Heed his warning.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)I wonder just how hard they to recruit "them?"
BTW get rid of the drudge report flasher ... thanx
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The reason that Trump is so worried & has worked so hard to stop the investigation is, IMO, because there's something there. Collusion.
trueblue2007
(17,228 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)so russia can perpetrate Acts of War** against America.
republican traitors - and those who collude by blocking proper investigation - suck.
* per ronald reagan
** per dick cheney
barbtries
(28,799 posts)come on. at trump's behest. he is after their useful idiot, though it's starting to look as if the idiot part is ultimately going to outweigh the useful.
Johnny2X2X
(19,066 posts)"Frequently, people who go along a treasonous path do not know they are on a treasonous path until it is too late," Brennan said.
That should be the headline. Treason is mentioned.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)in the WH, they need to rounded up and put into prison.
They are treasonous SOB's. I want to see Ryan and O'Connell go too. Scandalous SOB's.
Selling out our country for freaking Putin.