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Augment With John Schindler Signals Intel

In an Aug. 25 briefing for Harry Reid, then the top Democrat in the Senate, Mr. Brennan indicated that Russia’s hackings appeared aimed at helping Mr. Trump win the November election, according to two former officials with knowledge of the briefing.”

So as early as August 25, 2016 the CIA already understood that Russia was interfering to defeat Clinton and elect Trump and yet Trumpland continued to prevaricate and drag its feet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/trump-russia-cia-john-brennan.html?rref=collection%2Fbyline%2Feric-lichtblau&action=click&contentCollection=undefined&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=2&pgtype=collection

Days later, Mr. Reid wrote to James B. Comey, director of the F.B.I. Without mentioning the C.I.A. briefing, Mr. Reid told Mr. Comey that he had “recently become concerned” that Russia’s interference was “more extensive than widely known.”

Well into the fall, law enforcement officials said that the F.B.I. — including the bureau’s intelligence analysts — had not found any conclusive or direct link between Mr. Trump and the Russian government, as The New York Times reported on Oct. 31.

But as we know from Peter Strozk, the FBI-aka Trumpland-wasn’t trying all that hard.