Thursday, 24 August 2017

Ex-CIA Dir. Brennan: I briefed McConnell, Cornyn on Russian election interference, they didn't get 'importance and gravity'

Former CIA Director John Brennan sent an internal memo to CIA employees last December in which he said some of the members of Congress he'd briefed on the CIA's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections did not “understand and appreciate the importance and gravity of the issue.”

He meant Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn. If only they had.

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