Sentences with phrase «russian intelligence operatives»

The Obama administration struck back at Russia for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia's two leading intelligence services.

In order to understand the context in which the FBI sought a FISA warrant for Carter Page, it is necessary to understand how the investigation began, what other information the FBI had about Russia's efforts to interfere with our election, and what the FBI knew about Carter Page prior to making application to the court — including Carter Page's previous interactions with Russian intelligence operatives.

The FBI and several congressional committees are investigating how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and whether associated of President Donald Trump may have colluded with Russian intelligence operatives during the campaign.

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But the documents say the person is an associate of Manafort's, and the description bears similarities to Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian - Ukrainian operative who has long been suspected to have ties to Russian intelligence.

Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and advisers, Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos are also named, as are the Russian intelligence service, Russian Federation, several Russian operatives, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have received new materials from the estate of Peter Smith, a GOP operative who reportedly led a campaign to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails from Russian hackers during the 2016 presidential race.

Conway accused CNN of running its story based on anonymous sourcing, referring to CNN's coverage of classified documents alleging Russian operatives claimed to have compromising information about Trump that CNN reported were presented to the president - elect at the intelligence briefing, a point Conway disputed.

The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee warned political candidates to expect Russian operatives to try to sow chaos and manipulate upcoming elections in November and in 2018.

Obama announced Thursday the expulsion of 35 Russian «intelligence operatives» from the United States and the closure of two Russian - owned facilities in response to intelligence that Russia interfered with the U.S. election process.

A top Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) suffers a career - ending injury and she is recruited into the secret corps of Sparrow operatives — men and women trained to seduce enemy agents and extract intelligence from them.

Russian operatives (usually the military intelligence) steal secrets, but the KGB and its successors also run influence operations.

Reports from the intelligence community at the time, as well as common sense, pegged Guccifer 2.0 not as the Romanian activist he claimed to be, but a Russian operative.