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And we did the follow-up and provided that information in november and that we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> okay. let me turn now to the two recent arbitrary and inconsistent decisions that affect the politicizing of the classification system. the first was the public release of nunes memo. the second involved the report that the congress required on russian oligarchs, their relationship with president putin and indications of corruption. in that case, the secretary of the treas...

And intelligence? >> if i could take the first shot at that one. as you look at dia -- and thanks for the support the committee provides to the intelligence agency. so if you look at foreign militaries in the operational environment, this is central to looking at doctrine and what they're developing. when you think about artificial intelligence, our near peer competitors are pursuing this and it's a lot of commercial technology that is available. the ability to digest and pull that information in, artificial intelligence is needed. at the open source level, project maven. you look at full moti...

Disjointed it was, how ineffective it was, how cheap it was for them to do that but after that with all due respect to my friend from virginia, i think the american people are ready. i think they'll look askance a lot more at the information that this attempted to be passed out through social media. the american people are smart people, they realize there's people attempting to manipulate them, both domestically and foreign. i -- and i agree with everybody on the panel that this is going to go on. this is the way the russians have done business. this is no surprise to us and we saw it even mor...

Driven by objective facts and the position you all are taking is out of sync with what all the experts in the field are saying and i would just like to know who you all are consulting with. we'll talk more about it this afternoon. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator collins? >> thank you, mr. chairman. director pompeo, last week "the new york times" published a report that alleged u.s. intelligence officials had paid $100,000 to a russian source for phony secrets, including potentially compromising information about the president and information on certain tools allegedly stolen from the nsa. ...

Assertions in this story? and second, if so, what would be the motivations of a russian who peddled this story to "the new york times" and other western media outlets? is this part of the russian campaign to undermine faith in western democracies? >> senator collins, first, let me say thanks for the question. reporting on this matter has been atrocious. it's been ridiculous. totally inaccurate. and in our view, the suggestion the cia would swindle is false. the people swindled is the authors of those two pieces. indeed, it is our view that the same two people who were proffering phony informat...