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Two former senior US intelligence officials claim that evidence, if any, of Russian interference in the US elections last year would still be available in NSA databases.
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The timeline of claims made in an unsubstantiated dossier presented by top US intelligence officials to President Donald Trump and senior lawmakers last month has increased scrutiny of events that unfolded in the final months of the Trump campaign.
The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long - standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document.
Because the Steele dossier — a private intelligence report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele — included a claim that Cohen met with a Russian official in Prague to talk about Russia's interference and advocacy for Trump in the 2016 election.
It was the first to report that U.S. intelligence officials briefed Trump about claims that Russia was in possession of compromising information on him, and it broke the story that the White House had asked the F.B.I. to publicly reject media reports that people close to Trump were in contact with the Russians during the campaign.
Guccifer claimed in a posting on their Wordpress site to have «penetrated Hillary Clinton's and other Democrats» mail servers,» but the self - described hacker was later characterized by U.S. officials as a front for Russian military intelligence.
A former State Department official who served under former President Barack Obama confirmed recent allegations made by Republicans that the author of the infamous «Trump dossier» and an ally of Hillary Clinton gave him intelligence reports claiming to show collusion between Trump's campaign and the Russians.
A U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News that the intelligence community is unaware of any claims of responsibility in the attack at this time.
The hacker claiming responsibility for the breach — working under the pseudonym Guccifer 2.0, which American intelligence officials believe is an alias for a Russian intelligence hacker — appeared eager to taunt Democrats in releasing the latest files.
In April 2009, officials at the United States Department of Justice acknowledged that the NSA had engaged in large - scale overcollection of domestic communications in excess of the federal intelligence court's authority, but claimed that the acts were unintentional and had since been rectified.8
The unverified allegations — including a claim Russia has material that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump — were deemed sufficiently significant by senior intelligence officials... They said sharing of such unverified information was taken out of an abundance of caution...
As the WP points out, this revelation follows a Time report from May claiming that US intelligence officials had found proof of politically targeted, Kremlin - affiliated Facebook ad buys during the 2016 Presidential election.