EX-CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN TESTIFIES BEFORE HOUSE

Former CIA director John Brennan said Tuesday he doesn’t know whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials in the 2016 election, but he left office in January with “unresolved questions” about whether Russia had been successful in getting Trump campaign officials to act on its behalf “either wittingly or unwittingly.”

“I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign that I was concerned about because of known Russian efforts to suborn such individuals,” Brennan testified before the House Intelligence Committee. “It raised questions in my mind about whether Russia was able to gain the cooperation of those individuals.”

“I don’t know if such collusion — your words — existed,” Brennan told the committee. “I don’t know. But I know there was sufficient intelligence ... to warrant investigation by the (FBI).”