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The former US national security adviser Michael Flynn stood down this week after acknowledging he had discussed US sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
On Saturday it emerged that the US intelligence community had informed President Trump that Russia had interfered with the election in an effort to help Trump win.
The controversy has forced the president to turn to his generals to fill his top intelligence agency with experienced specialists.
Ahead of their confirmation hearings in September, John Kelly, the former chief of staff, was grilled about the CIA’s use of torture in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks as a senior intelligence official in the George W Bush administration warned against such methods.
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On Saturday evening Kelly spoke by phone with US vice-president Mike Pence, and later met US senator Tom Cotton.
Both sides have already decided, however, that no members of the committee will testify about the Russian interference in the US elections.
Rep Mike Conaway of Texas, the Republican chairman of the committee, told reporters that Flynn’s “inconvenient” admission, which had been made by one of his intelligence chiefs, would have to “be dealt with in light of that admission”.
Conaway said he was prepared to discuss other revelations about Trump, but he was not sure of the extent of the disclosures he would discuss, or when they would be made.
“I think I can confirm to the American people that the vice president will not be talking about the information he discussed with the Russian ambassador about Donald Trump. If the attorney gen카지노 사이트eral has not informed us of these discussions, I can only tell you that I believe that the people on the Senate intelligence committee are as concerned about the president-elect as I am. I have spoken to Mike and he agrees with me.”
