Tag: Russia-gate

Intelligence Officials Sidestep Senate Questions on Trump and Russia

The following article by Emmarie Huetteman and Charlie Savage was posted on the New York Times website June 7, 2017:

From left, the acting F.B.I. director, Andrew G. McCabe; Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein; the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats; and the N.S.A. director, Adm. Michael S. Rogers, appearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Two top intelligence officials refused to answer senators’ questions on Wednesday about whether President Trump had asked them to intervene in the F.B.I. investigation into Russian election interference, saying only that they had never felt “pressured” by the White House to do anything improper.

The two officials — Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, and Adm. Michael S. Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency — testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on the eve of a highly anticipated appearance before the panel by James B. Comey, who was fired as F.B.I. director by Mr. Trump last month. Mr. Comey, in prepared remarks released by the committee after the two officials testified, said Mr. Trump had asked him to drop an investigation into the president’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. Continue reading “Intelligence Officials Sidestep Senate Questions on Trump and Russia”

Despite early denials, growing list of Trump camp contacts with Russians haunts White House

The following article by Rosalind S. Helderman was posted on the Washington Post website March 4, 2017:

Two days after the presidential election, a Russian official speaking to a reporter in Moscow offered a surprising acknowledgment: The Kremlin had been in contact with Donald Trump’s campaign.

The claim, coming amid allegations that Russia had interfered with the election, was met with an immediate no-wiggle-room, blanket denial from Trump’s spokeswoman. “It never happened,” Hope Hicks told the Associated Pressat the time. “There was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign.” Continue reading “Despite early denials, growing list of Trump camp contacts with Russians haunts White House”