Two ex-Obama admin officials to testify over likely collusion of Trump, Moscow during campaign

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence under Obama, and Sally Yates, who was Deputy Attorney General, will both testify in a Senate investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.

The pair will appear before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism, to give an insight into possible collusion between President Donald Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

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Their appearance will be the first of such public testimony by former officials from the Democratic administration after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered hacking of Democratic political groups to discredit the election and sway the voting towards Republican Trump, who won an upset victory in November.

Moscow has however denied any such meddling. Trump also has dismissed the allegations, suggesting instead that Obama might have wiretapped his Trump Tower in New York or that China may have been behind the cyber attacks

 

 

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