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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Hundreds of ex-CIA officials question memo behind Trump’s Chinese election interference claims

A group of more than 400 former national security and intelligence officials are calling on Congress to investigate an alleged CIA memo used to support Donald Trump’s claims that China sought to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

The group fears the document may have been manufactured from “cherry-picked” CIA reports with direct input from the White House before the president’s primetime address on what he called “shocking vulnerabilities” in the nation’s election system.

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