(RNN) – House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee effectively closed an investigation into collusion between Russia and the Trump 2016 presidential campaign on Monday, declaring none was found.
The House investigation is one of three prominent inquiries into the matter, the others being perhaps the most significant one, special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and another by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Texas Rep. Mike Conaway led the House investigation.
“We found no evidence of collusion. We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings” he said, according to The New York Times. “But only Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn or someone else like that could take these series of inadvertent contacts with each other, meetings, whatever, and weave that into some sort of a fiction and turn it into a page-turner, spy thriller.”
Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley disputed that characterization of the evidence in a CNN interview.
He said Russia’s actions “paint a very clear picture, and for the House to say there’s no evidence that there was any weight thrown one side or the other just discredits them completely.”
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