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Don't reply until you READ the article, it makes you look foolish.

In a recent closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill, National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers expressed frustration to lawmakers about his inability to convince the President to accept US intelligence that Russia meddled in the election, according to a congressional source familiar with the meeting.

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"We haven't done anything," Sen. John McCain said Tuesday. "We passed a bill through the Senate, and it's hung up in the House. Tell me what we've done?"

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Former US Ambassador to NATO Nicholas Burns, testifying in front of the Senate intelligence committee Wednesday, faulted Obama for failing to take action against Russia more quickly when he was president. But he unleashed his fury at Trump for doing so little to curtail Russian aggression.
"It is his duty, President Trump's, to be skeptical of Russia. It's his duty to investigate and defend our country against a cyber offensive because Russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today," said Burns, a career foreign service officer who has served under presidents of both parties. "And if he continues to refuse to act it's a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country."

At a Senate hearing last week, Bill Priestap, the assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division and a career civil servant, also highlighted the ongoing threat from Russia, saying, "I believe the Russians will absolutely continue to try to conduct influence operations in the US, which will include cyber intrusions."

But the President's muted interest in election interference stands in stark contrast to the collusion investigation, which has consumed his attention. Trump takes questions about Russia personally, sources said, because he sees them as an effort to undermine the legitimacy of his presidency.

"He thinks one equates with the other," one Republican congressional source said. "He can't admit anything that may taint his election. He is more hung up on how it affected the election outcome than what Russia did."




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Re: Officials struggle to convince Trump that Russia remains a threat
By: ribit
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Thu, 29 Jun 17 3:24 AM
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...same sources as they used in the story they retracted and fired a handful of folks over?


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