*******BREAKING******* Brennan: Russia may have successfully recruited Trump campaign aides

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Tuesday that he had concerns that Russian officials may have successfully recruited aides from Donald Trump’s campaign to help in the Kremlin’s efforts to influence last year’s 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]

1. He made that point several times too

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]

2. That drudge report siren ...yuk

Everything else just fine...

[coeur_de_lion]

3. Live testimony at NPR

[link:http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/watch-live-former-cia-director-john-brennan-testifies-house-committee/|

[retrowire]

4. Eagerly awaiting BREAKING NEWS

That doesn't have "may have" in the title.

[MineralMan]

6. +100!

[William Seger]

10. I object to using "BREAKING" in titles, anyway

[Sunlei]

5. Republican party placed those "already connected to Russia" individuals in trump campaign.

[catbyte]

7. Please, I'm begging you, lights like that trigger migraines and epileptic seizures.

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]

8. I have that problem too.

[LeftInTX]

13. Count me in too

Had to scroll away from it

[Alice11111]

21. I immediately scrolled and moved it off the screen, so I

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]

9. Brennan is telling.....

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]

16. + 1,000

[Botany]

11. But what about Hillarys emails?

I wonder just how hard they to recruit "them?"

BTW get rid of the drudge report flasher ... thanx

[Honeycombe8]

12. Of course they did. If that weren't the case, Trump wouldn't be working so hard to stop it.

The reason that Trump is so worried & has worked so hard to stop the investigation is, IMO, because there's something there. Collusion.

[trueblue2007]

14. I think the russians requited DONALD TRUMP. Traitor.

[Achilleaze]

15. republicans selling out America to the freaking evil empire* russia

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]

17. may have?

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]

18. TREASON!

"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]

19. We have our own domestic terrorists

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.

[L. Coyote]

20. Americans, watch Russian interference hearings. You're all smarter than Gowdy and can follow along

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