2016 ELECTION/JAMES COMEY/RUSSIA/SENATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former FBI Director James Comey is skipping a closed-door Senate hearing next week to discuss the intelligence community’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 elections…Comey was among four former intelligence community leaders invited to attend the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. The other three, former National Intelligence Director James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and former NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers, are listed as attendees. The hearing is a highly anticipated review of top intelligence officials’ judgments about Russia’s election meddling scheme and its intentions in conducting a wide-ranging influence and propaganda operation. The agencies concluded in a January 2017 report that Russia intended to hurt Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and later came to favor Donald Trump’s bid. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee recently accused the intelligence community of employing faulty ‘tradecraft’ when it determined that the Kremlin favored Trump. Democrats on the panel rejected the GOP findings and called it an attempt to protect the president.”
-Kyle Cheney, “Comey to skip hearing on Russian interference in 2016 campaign,” Politico, May 11, 2018 4:58 pm