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Paul Goble, a longtime specialist on Soviet and Russian affairs and former adviser to the State Department and CIA, said he based the analysis on comments by Russian officials and state-run media.
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In fact, two CIA officers argued to Mr. Brennan at the time, “We don’t have direct information that Putin wanted to get Trump elected.” In essence, intelligence professionals were telling Mr. Brennan not to include the unfounded Trump-Putin allegations because, as the report states, such a significant accusation “had serious implications for confidence in U.S. democracy.” However, the warnings were of no concern to Messrs. Brennan or Obama
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