More heretofore classified testimony released tonight by the House Intelligence Committee as reported by Fox News:
“I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified in 2017.That’s not to say that there weren’t concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence. ... But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence.”
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, according to the transcript of her interview, was asked about the same issue. Power replied: “I am not in possession of anything—I am not in possession and didn’t read or absorb information that came from out of the intelligence community.”
Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice was asked the same question To the best of my recollection, there wasn’t anything smoking, but there were some things that gave me pause,” she said, according to her transcribed interview, in response to whether she had any evidence of conspiracy. “I don’t recall intelligence that I would consider evidence to that effect that I saw…conspiracy prior to my departure.”
Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch also said that she did "not recall that being briefed up to me."
Former Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe replied: “We have not been able to prove the accuracy of all the information.
You don’t know if it’s true or not?” a House investigator asked, to which McCabe replied: “That’s correct.”
And, of course, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller famously concluded
he and his team found no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. .