{"id":353568,"date":"2018-03-23T23:32:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-intel-committee-votes-to-end-russia-probe\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T23:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T22:32:50","slug":"house-intel-committee-votes-to-end-russia-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/house-intel-committee-votes-to-end-russia-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"House Intel Committee Votes to End Russia Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The House Intelligence Committee has voted to formally end its Russia probe. Lawmakers found no evidence of collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also voted to release the report, which was authored by Republicans. It will first be sent to the intelligence community so that classified material can be redacted, but is expected to be made public within weeks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>No collusion: &#8216;We disagree with narrative that Russians were trying to help <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump<\/a>&#8216; &#8211; House Intelligence Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qvSfGzGsMW\">https:\/\/t.co\/qvSfGzGsMW<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 RT (@RT_com) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RT_com\/status\/973328917879820293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report recommends a crackdown on administrative leaks including the introduction of \u201cmandatory polygraphs\u201d for officials who have top secret security clearance. It also accuses former Obama administration intelligence director James Clapper of providing \u201cinconsistent testimony\u201d regarding his contacts with the media.<\/p>\n<p>In a summary of its findings, the committee said that some Trump associates had \u201cill-advised\u201d contact with WikiLeaks but concluded that there was \u201cno evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump\u2019s associates and the Kremlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee spoke to more than 70 witnesses during the course of the investigation, which was launched in January last year. It heard from many prominent Trump administration figures including Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. It also reviewed more than 300,000 documents.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have complained that Republicans on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/no-collusion-house-intel-committee-votes-to-end-russia-probe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Intelligence Committee has voted to formally end its Russia probe. Lawmakers found no evidence of collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia. The committee also voted to release the report, which was authored by Republicans. It will first be sent to the intelligence community so that classified material can be redacted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}