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Entering the u.s. under the guise of other business. officials say they've been replenishing their ranks since the u.s. expelled 35 russian diplomats suspected of spying as you'll recall last december and in some cases russian spies have even tried to gain employment at places in the u.s. with sensitive information as part of their intelligence-gathering efforts. now the fbi, which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts wouldn't respond to comments. >> so, pam, if the u.s. intelligence knows this, why aren't they stopping it? >> reporter: well, there's a few reasons. there's partisan p...

Pamela, what can you tell us? >> we've learned that russian spice are ramping up their intelligence gathering efforts in the united states according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who say they've noticed an increase since the election. so the russians' efforts have not been slowed by the intense focus of the intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in a the u.s. election. and since the election, john, u.s. authorities have detected an uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the united states under the guise of other business. officials say t...

Intelligence community. and since the election, john, u.s. authorities have detected an uptick in suspected russian intelligence officers entering the united states under the guise of other business. officials say they believe russia is trying to replenish their ranks since the u.s. expelled 35 russian diplomats suspected of spying last december, and in some cases, russian spies have tried to gain employment at places with sensitive information as part of their intelligence-gathering efforts. the fbi, which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the u.s. would not comment for this s...

Replenishing their ranks ever since the u.s. expelled 35 russian diplomats suspected of spying last december. in some cases, russian spies have tried to gain employment at places with sensitive information as part of their intelligence-gathering efforts. the fbi which is responsible for counterintelligence efforts in the u.s. would not comment for the story. the russian embassy in washington didn't respond to a request for comment. of course, all of this begs the question, why isn't the u.s. stopping it? there's a couple of reasons. partisan political disagreements over the russian activity, a...

Disagreements over the russian activity and president donald trump's reluctance to accept intelligence inclusions about russia's meddling in the election. as we heard just today has slowed efforts to counter threat. former and current officials we have spoken with have said, and we're told that counter intelligence is seeking -- is seeking to basically fbi counter intelligence is seeking to keep an eye on the activity in some of these cases. the fbi will use surveillance to track the suspected russian intelligence officers as part of this counterintelligence efforts. and that's how the u.s. wa...