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How the New McCarthyism grows stronger. Stephen F. Cohen, @NYU @Princeton EastWestAccord.com

Speaking at a committee hearing involving FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, Rep. Adam Schiff /react-text react-text: 1295 spelled out information /react-text react-text: 1296 that has been made public /react-text react-text: 1298 so far about Russian meddling /react-text react-text: 1299 and possible ties to the Trump campaign. /react-text react-text: 1301 "If the Trump campaign, or anybody associated with it, aided or abetted the Russians, it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of our democracy in history," he said. /react-text react-text: 1303 Read Schiff's full statement below: /react-text Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to thank Director Comey and Admiral Rogers for appearing before us today as the committee holds this first open hearing into the interference campaign waged against our 2016 Presidential election. Last summer, at the height of a bitterly contested and hugely consequential Presidential campaign, a foreign, adversarial power intervened in an effort to weaken our democracy, and to influence the outcome for one candidate and against the other. That foreign adversary was, of course, Russia, and it acted through its intelligence agencies and upon the direct instructions of its autocratic ruler, Vladimir Putin, in order to help Donald J. Trump become the 45th President of the United States.

http://time.com/4706721/read-rep-adam-schiffs-opening-statement-on-russian-meddling-in-the-election/

America's smaller European allies have expressed concern about President Donald Trump's mixed signals on the U.S. commitment to protect them from Russia. The uncertainty threatened to deepen late Monday when U.S. officials said that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson planned to skip what would have been his first official meeting with NATO in April. On Tuesday, the State Department said Tillerson has a scheduling conflict and suggested alternative dates that morning. Moving the date would require a 28-nation consensus. A NATO official told NBC News "we are in contact with the State Department on scheduling." Tillerson will travel later in the month to a series of unspecified meetings in Russia, a State Department spokesman confirmed to NBC News. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/rex-tillerson-skip-key-nato-summit-plans-travel-russia-n736226

http://time.com/4706721/read-rep-adam-schiffs-opening-statement-on-russian-meddling-in-the-election/