Certain communications detailed in an explosive 35-page dossier related to President Donald Trump have been corroborated by multiple unnamed sources within the U.S. intelligence community, CNN reported Friday.
CNN reported the news after speaking to “multiple current and former US law enforcement and intelligence officials” about intercepted communications between foreign nationals, within and outside of the Russian government:
None of the newly learned information relates to the salacious allegations in the dossier. Rather it relates to conversations between foreign nationals. The dossier details about a dozen conversations between senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals. Sources would not confirm which specific conversations were intercepted or the content of those discussions due to the classified nature of US intelligence collection programs.
But the intercepts do confirm that some of the conversations described in the dossier took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier, according to the officials. CNN has not confirmed whether any content relates to then-candidate Trump.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer dismissed CNN’s reporting as “fake news.”
Read the full report here.
