Jared Kushner, Trump's son - in - law and senior adviser, became a subject of the investigation after US
intelligence officials intercepted communications suggesting he had proposed setting up a secret backchannel to Moscow using Russian diplomatic facilities on US soil.
Not exact matches
«The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky
officials and Russian
intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian
intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to
intercept communications transiting Russian networks,» DHS said in a statement.
The questions about Russia only deepened late Tuesday when The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had
intercepted phone calls last year between Russian
intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.
The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had
intercepted phone calls last year between Russian
intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.
Yet by now,
officials said,
intelligence analysts would also have expected to have culled from electronic
intercepts of overseas conversations at least some secondary evidence that the Russians might be involved — suspicious telephone or email conversations, suggestive messages, movements of Russian agents — something.
And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the
Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military
intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government
officials.
The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky
officials and Russian
intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian
intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to
intercept communications transiting Russian networks.
Ambassador Sergei Kislyak's accounts of two conversations with Sessions, then a U.S. senator and key foreign policy adviser to Republican candidate Donald Trump, were
intercepted by U.S.
intelligence agencies, the
officials told the Post.
In September, the Department of Homeland Security issued a ban on Kaspersky products, coupled with a statement expressing its concerns regarding «the ties between certain Kaspersky
officials and Russian
intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian
intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to
intercept communications transiting Russian networks.»