Report alleges the House Intelligence Committee failed to investigate a stunning number of leads before closing its Russia investigation

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• A new report from a Democrat-aligned group lays out the ways in which the House Intelligence Committee failed to conduct a thorough investigation into the President Donald Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia.
• The committee’s Republican majority voted to release their final report on Thursday, which officially closed their investigation.
• But the Moscow Project’s report claims that in 81% of the campaign’s known contacts with Russia, the committee did not get a complete picture of the interactions from the Trump associates they interviewed.

The House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Thursday to release its Republican majority’s report on the Russia investigation, therefore concluding the probe.

But a new report from a Democrat-aligned group shows the committee failed to investigate a slew of leads, and claims the Republican majority on the committee should not have closed their inquiry so soon — echoing Democrats on the committee.

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