<story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacheendra</author><text>Why does he use language like &amp;quot;We did not include any evidence in our report&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?</text></item><item><author>jayess</author><text>James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals.&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper&amp;#x27;s prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was &amp;quot;no evidence&amp;#x27; of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. When asked if that is still accurate, Clapper said Monday, &amp;quot;it is.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;On NBC weeks earlier, Clapper said, &amp;quot;We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, &amp;#x27;our,&amp;#x27; that&amp;#x27;s NSA, FBI and CIA, with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evidence-of-any-russian-collusion-with-trump-campaign&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2622452&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&amp;quot;Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump&amp;#x27;s business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering.&amp;quot; -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>neuronexmachina</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s more-or-less a Glomar response, crafted to neither confirm or deny that evidence exists. This is frankly the right thing to say when there&amp;#x27;s an ongoing investigation and the results aren&amp;#x27;t made available to the speaker.</text></comment>
<story><title>President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/comey-misstated-key-clinton-email-evidence-at-hearing-say-people-close-to-investigation/2017/05/09/074c1c7e-34bd-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sacheendra</author><text>Why does he use language like &amp;quot;We did not include any evidence in our report&amp;quot;?&lt;p&gt;Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?</text></item><item><author>jayess</author><text>James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals.&lt;p&gt;Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper&amp;#x27;s prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was &amp;quot;no evidence&amp;#x27; of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. When asked if that is still accurate, Clapper said Monday, &amp;quot;it is.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;On NBC weeks earlier, Clapper said, &amp;quot;We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, &amp;#x27;our,&amp;#x27; that&amp;#x27;s NSA, FBI and CIA, with my office, the Director of National Intelligence, that had anything, that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evidence-of-any-russian-collusion-with-trump-campaign&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;2622452&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&amp;#x2F;james-clapper-still-no-evi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>TheBiv</author><text>&amp;quot;Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump&amp;#x27;s business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering.&amp;quot; -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cli</author><text>I watched that NBC interview here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;politics-news&amp;#x2F;former-dni-james-clapper-i-can-deny-wiretap-trump-tower-n729261&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nbcnews.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;politics-news&amp;#x2F;former-dni-jam...&lt;/a&gt;. Right after Clapper answered, the interviewer asked him whether the information exists, and Clapper answered that it does not to his knowledge, but he does not know whether more information has come to light since he left office.</text></comment>