As soon as they got into the session with twelve congressional leaders, led by Mitch McConnell, it went bad. “It devolved into a partisan debate,” Monaco later told me. “McConnell simply disbelieved what we were telling him.” He chastised the intelligence officials for buying into what he claimed was Obama administration spin, recalled one of the other senators present. Comey tried to make the point that Russia had engaged in this kind of activity before, but this time it was on a far broader scale. The argument made no difference. It became clear that McConnell would not sign on to any
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