The ex-head of the CIA told the Senate about the intervention of the Russian Federation in the elections and his conversation with the director of the FSB

Former CIA Director John Brennan fears that Russian officials could hire assistants from Donald Trump’s election headquarters to help the Kremlin influence the presidential election in the USA in 2016. This, according to Politico , he stated when speaking at the hearing in the Senate.

Brennan said that between Russian officials and Americans who participated in the campaign of presidential candidate Donald Trump, “contacts and interaction” were identified. “And I had questions again whether the Russians were able to establish cooperation with these people,” said the ex -head of the CIA.

"I had unresolved questions: or not the Russians managed to succeed in attracting Americans participating in the campaign to work on them," he said about the suspicions that had appeared by the time he left the CIA director on January 20. “Therefore,” Bennan added, “it seemed to me that the FBI investigation, of course, reasonably and such issues needed to study.”

The comments of Brennan were made before the Committee on the Investigation of the House of Representatives, which is investigating Russia's interference in the presidential election, in particular the accusations of conspiracy between Moscow and representatives of Trump's headquarters.

Answering the question whether he saw as the director of the CIA, a conspiracy certificate, Brennan emphasized: "I was worried about a number of contacts that the Russians established with the Americans."

Brennan warned Bortnikov that the intervention in the elections will “delay” the Kremlin

Brennan said that in the summer of 2016 in a telephone conversation he warned the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov about the negative consequences of interference in the election campaign.

When it became clear that the Russian Federation intervenes in the elections, experts of the CIA, ANB and the FBI gathered at the end of the summer to share the information with each other, which the banging was transferred to the then US President Barack Obama.

“It should be clear to everyone that Russia arrogantly intervened in the 2016 presidential campaign and took these actions contrary to our protest and the warning not to do this,” the ex -head of the CIA Newsweek quotes.

According to Brennan, on August 4, 2016, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov was a conversation dedicated to Syria, but the head of the CIA touched on the topic of intervention in the elections that the media wrote about.

“I told Mr. Bortnikov that if Russia continues this campaign, then it will hit it with a ricochet itself,” Brennan said, adding that he told Bortnikov that the Americans would oppose such an intervention. "I said that if Russia continues this course, it will destroy all the short -term prospects for improving relations between the two countries," he said.

Bortnikov denied that the Russian Federation was interfering in the elections, and stated that it was customary to blame Russia for what it was not involved in, the ex-head of the CIA passed the conversation. Then Brennan, he said, repeated his warning, and Bortnikov again denied the prosecution.

“I think that was the first American official to ask Russia such questions,” said the ex -head of the CIA.

For several months, the United States has been investigating Russia in the Russian presidential election. In February of this year, due to suspicions of relations with the Russian Federation, the adviser to the US president on national security Michael Flynn was forced to resign.

On May 9, Trump fired the director of the FBI James Komi, who planned to expand the investigation of the ties of the Trump administration with Russia.