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The US sent a “planeload of FBI agents” to Iceland in 2011 to frame WikiLeaks and its co-founder Julian Assange, according to a former Icelandic minister of interior, who refused them any cooperation and asked them to cease their activities. the US “sent a planeload of FBI agents to Iceland seeking our cooperation in what I understood as an operation set up to frame Julian Assange and WikiLeaks,” Jonasson said. Icelanders seemed like a tough nut to crack, though. “Since they had not been authorized by the Icelandic authorities to carry out police work in Iceland and since a crack-down...

SCHUMER: Report's of Russia's Interference In The Election Should Shake Us To The Core Akin Oyedele. Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Saturday that he and Republican colleagues would call for a congressional investigation into Russia's reported involvement in the election. The Washington Post and The New York Times reported Friday that a secret CIA presentation shown to lawmakers revealed that the Russian government interfered with the election to try to help President-elect Donald Trump win. According to the Post, intelligence officials identified people with connections to the Russian government who they say handed thousands of hacked emails and...

Reid responded to a question on whether he thought about Russian intervention in the 2016 election undermined Trump’s incoming administration by saying, “Well, Trump’s the president. He was elected, you know, this is a hanging chad 1,000 times over. He lost the election, actually by about 3 million votes, but we have the system we have here, which, by the way, should change very soon.”

Why are Democrats saying Russia interferred with the presidential election? They are concerned with the integrity of the system They are trying to delegitimize Trump's presidency