In the months leading up to the 2016 election, senior [CIA] officials held a series of meetings...seeking to make sense of disconcerting reports that Moscow had mounted a covert operation to upend the U.S. presidential race.
By early August, the sense of alarm had become so acute that CIA Director John Brennan called White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. “I need to get in to see the president,” Brennan said, with unusual urgency in his voice.
At the time of Brennan’s request for a meeting with President Barack Obama, election anxiety about Russia was already surging.
The Apprentice
That got me to subscribe to Chief WaPo, it did.
