"the times" reported in a bit of a bombshell scoop that in the process of developing that intelligence community report on the russia attack, this report that president obama had requested they put out a declassified public version of it on january 5th, in the course of putting together that report, america's intelligence agencies gathered some disturbing stuff on the subject of that report. quote, in the weeks before the assessment was released in january, the intelligence community combed through databases for an array of communications and other information and began producing reports that showed there were contacts during the campaign between trump associates and russian officials. and that evidence did not stand alone. quote, according to three form american officials who requested anonymity in discussing american intelligence, american allies, including the british and the dutch had also provided information to u.s. intelligence