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Senate intelligence committee to question Trump team on links with Russia
LBN thread: Burr says Intel panel will investigate possible Russia-Trump links
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Source: The Guardian
Senate intelligence committee to question Trump team on links with Russia
Chairman says panel will use subpoenas if necessary to force testimony
Moscow accused of collusion with Trump team and of cyber-crimes
Lauren Gambino and Julian Borger in Washington, and Spencer Ackerman in New York
Saturday 14 January 2017 16.50 GMT
The Senate intelligence committee plans to interview senior figures in the incoming Trump administration as part of its inquiry into alleged Russian hacking during the US election, its chairman said on Friday.
The announcement, one week before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, comes amid a bitter row between him and the US intelligence agencies he will soon lead.
Only yesterday the committee chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, had told reporters that connections between the president-elect and Moscow would be outside the remit of his committees ongoing investigation into Russias alleged attempts to influence the election through hacking and other cyberattacks.
But Burr in a statement issued jointly with the panels top Democrat, Mark Warner said the committee would use subpoenas if necessary to force Trumps team, as well as officials from the Obama administration, to testify.
As part of the Senate select committee on intelligences oversight responsibilities, we believe that it is critical to have a full understanding of the scope of Russian intelligence activities impacting the United States, the statement said.
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Chairman says panel will use subpoenas if necessary to force testimony
Moscow accused of collusion with Trump team and of cyber-crimes
Lauren Gambino and Julian Borger in Washington, and Spencer Ackerman in New York
Saturday 14 January 2017 16.50 GMT
The Senate intelligence committee plans to interview senior figures in the incoming Trump administration as part of its inquiry into alleged Russian hacking during the US election, its chairman said on Friday.
The announcement, one week before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, comes amid a bitter row between him and the US intelligence agencies he will soon lead.
Only yesterday the committee chairman Richard Burr, a Republican, had told reporters that connections between the president-elect and Moscow would be outside the remit of his committees ongoing investigation into Russias alleged attempts to influence the election through hacking and other cyberattacks.
But Burr in a statement issued jointly with the panels top Democrat, Mark Warner said the committee would use subpoenas if necessary to force Trumps team, as well as officials from the Obama administration, to testify.
As part of the Senate select committee on intelligences oversight responsibilities, we believe that it is critical to have a full understanding of the scope of Russian intelligence activities impacting the United States, the statement said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/senate-intelligence-committee-trump-aides-russia-links
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Senate intelligence committee to question Trump team on links with Russia (Original Post)
Eugene
Jan 2017
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I realized today that Michael Hastings died on the same day Trump's Miss Universes did Russia.
FreepFryer
Jan 2017
#1
not making any allegations, but the temporal sequence seemed intriguingly explicable.
FreepFryer
Jan 2017
#2
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)1. I realized today that Michael Hastings died on the same day Trump's Miss Universes did Russia.
June 18, 2013.
Am I being silly to link the two? Not sure else would have made Trump, Hastings or any number of Agencies that nervous.
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)2. not making any allegations, but the temporal sequence seemed intriguingly explicable.
trump gets kompromat
that info gets reported/surveilled
hastings learns about it
and there's no time for a hatchet job
i'm pretty sure it's kooky
but it's occam-friendly.
I don't have any evidence - or proof, or even strong belief - that these events are linked. Just struck me as odd to be so synchronous.