Former CIA director John Brennan said on May 23 he had noticed contacts between associates of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia during the 2016 election and grew concerned Moscow had sought to lure Americans down “a treasonous path.”
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Then-U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan testifies before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Jan. 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.