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...U.S. Attorney John Durham - charged with the criminal probe into the FBI's Russia investigation of the Trump campaign - has been questioning CIA officials closely involved with John Brennan's 2017 intelligence community assessment regarding direct Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to U.S. officials.
...According to the report, Comey told investigators that Brennan said it was "Important" enough to include in the ICA - clearly part of the "Corpus of intelligence information" they had. According to a recent report by The New York Times, Durham's probe is specifically looking at that January 2017 intelligence community assessment, which concluded with "High confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin "Ordered an influence campaign in 2016.".
..."Mr. Durham appears to be pursuing a theory that the C.I.A., under its former director John O. Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result - and was nefariously trying to keep other agencies from seeing the full picture lest they interfere with that goal, the people said."
...As stated in the New York times Durham is investigating whether Brennan was keeping other intelligence agencies out of the loop to keep his narrative that Putin was helping Trump's campaign public.
..."Is there a criminal investigation now on analytic judgments and the activities of C.I.A. in terms of trying to protect our national security? I'm certainly willing to talk to Mr. Durham or anybody else who has any questions about what we did during this period of 2016.".
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