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3. Nunes of House Intelligence & Trump Transition did cast doubt on Russian role
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:10 AM
Feb 2017



Nunes chair of House Intelligence Committee and member of Trump's transition team cast doubt on CIA assessment of Russia's interference.

I thought you were going overboard on Nunes but then I re-read The Guardian article from December 2016 where Nunes was covering for Russia and Trump.


<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/10/cia-concludes-russia-interfered-to-help-trump-win-election-
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A separate report in the New York Times, also sourced to unnamed officials, claimed US intelligence agencies had discovered that Russian hackers had also penetrated the Republican National Committee’s networks, but conspicuously chose to release only the information stolen from the Democrats.

A third report, by Reuters, said intelligence agencies assessed that as the campaign drew on, Russian government officials devoted increasing attention to assisting Trump’s effort to win the election. Virtually all the emails they released publicly were potentially damaging to Clinton and the Democrats, the official told Reuters.


The California Republican congressman Devin Nunes, chair of the House intelligence committee and a member of the Trump transition team, said: “I’ll be the first one to come out and point at Russia if there’s clear evidence, but there is no clear evidence – even now. There’s a lot of innuendo, lots of circumstantial evidence, that’s it.”

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