Trump's Pick for CIA Chief Takes Hard Line on Russia

Foreign Policy: President-elect Donald Trump may be at war with the intelligence community, but on Thursday his pick to head the CIA tried to bridge the rift between the incoming president and his spies, saying he accepts the assessment that Russia meddled in the election to boost the Republican’s candidacy.

“It’s pretty clear about what took place here, about Russian involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on American democracy,” Rep. Mike Pompeo (R.-Kan.) told the Senate Intelligence Committee. “This was an aggressive action taken by senior leadership inside of Russia.”

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