Former CIA official says Russia interferes "blatantly" in US elections

Brennan confirms that Putin's government "tried to bribe American" individuals to favor Trump's victory Former CIA deputy director John Brennan told the US Congress today. That "it must be made clear" that Russia interfered "shamelessly" in the 2016 presidential election, which was won by Republican Donald Trump to the detriment of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Brennan, who was director of the US Central Intelligence Agency between 2013 and January this year, explained that he was one of the first US officials to warn Moscow of his activities, and urged them to give up their efforts Of affecting the elections. Brennan says she has no direct evidence but believes there is enough evidence "to continue investigating" "They tried to bribe individuals," said Brennan, who said that when he left office he had serious doubts about whether or not the Russians were able to involve members of the Trump campaign in their activities. Brennan declined to have direct evidence of the potential collusion of the billionaire's team with Russian officials, but insisted there was enough evidence "to investigate further," information he shared with the FBI and the National Security Agency (NSA) to act Properly.

US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered in the election, but whether those activities were coordinated with the tycoon's campaign team remains unclear. Trump fired two weeks ago to then-director of the FBI, James Comey, who led the investigation on the matter, a measure that has been interpreted as an attempt by the tycoon to stop the searches. It remains to be seen whether interference in the elections was coordinated with the Trump campaign team The suspicions about the cooperation of the campaign team of Trump with Russia so that the republican won the elections are still in the air, although the president of the USA He refuses to cover it. According to the Washington Post, Trump separately asked two senior intelligence officials to publicly deny there was any evidence of a collusion of his campaign with Russia to interfere in the presidential election: US National Director of Intelligence, Dan Coats, and the director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Mike Rogers. According to the US newspaper, Coats and Rogers declined to make public statements, as Trump asked, about the impropriety of those comments. Coats said he would provide information on Trump's alleged pressure to deny collusion with Russia if requested by newly appointed Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller Coats said he would provide information on Trump's alleged pressure to deny collusion with Russia if requested by newly appointed Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller as part of the lead investigation into Moscow's influence to affect the election result Of last November. Coats condemned the leaks that are occurring in the press about the internal management of the Trump administration and continue to reveal the president's interest in his intelligence and security officials deny the proximity of his campaign with the Kremlin, something that may have been Behind the recent firing of FBI Director James Comey by the president. The leaks are very serious and negative for national security "The leaks are very serious and negative for national security," said Coats, who regretted that they could affect the confidence of Washington's allies over the government's ability not to expose life-threatening sources of espionage. After being told that Trump spoke with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about sensitive US intelligence. Possesses on the terrorist group Islamic State (EI), the press reported that the person in charge of obtaining that information of espionage was Israel.