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On the recordMarch 30, 2017
last week in testimony to the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director Comey confirmed what many of us have been urging for months: the need for an independent commission to look into the Russian act of cyber war on our election and any possible collusion with members of the Trump campaign. Comey confirmed that the FBI was ``investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russian efforts.'' He continued that FBI agents would pursue the investigation ``no matter how long that takes.'' This is incredible. I am not surprised, but it is incredible. Our Nation's top law enforcement agency is investigating possible links between those involved in President Trump's campaign and a foreign adversary known to have conducted an aggressive intelligence operation to help him get elected, and all the while, this President continues to deny any such attack, praise the dictator who launched the attack, and pursue policies that mirror those of the attacker, including the weakening of the Western security alliance. Yet what has been the priority of the majority party amid this mounting and serious breach, one we already knew about 5 months ago? Has it been to set up an independent commission to look into this unprecedented threat to our Nation and democracy? No.…
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Mar 30, 2017

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