NYT Reader:
It is a sad and frightening scenario that an outgoing president has to protect information crucial to our nation's security and integrity from the next president. What does that tell you about Trump and his administration? Our intelligence agencies may be the bulwark in opposition to our democracy being subsumed by the infection which is Putin's Russia. […]

NYT Reader:
I am disappointed the Obama Administration didn't investigate the Russian/Trump election interference much more aggressively before the election. It was clear something really major was going on with the wikileaks only on Hillary Clinton and the Russian people in the Trump campaign. […]

NYTimes Reader:
The truth will come out. It's only a matter of time. If there were "no there there" then the White House would act now to get this matter out of the way. Dragging it out not only looks bad, but brings Congress closer and closer to November 2018. Nothing is going to get done without addressing the there there. And most important of all, if there is there there, swift and dramatic action is needed to secure democracy. […]

We also now know why Trump has amped up his attack against Pres. Obama and others, who he calls "Haters" and "sore losers." .

"Obama Administration Rushed to Preserve Intelligence of Russian Election Hacking"

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON — In the Obama administration’s last days, some White House officials scrambled to spread information about Russian efforts to undermine the presidential election — and about possible contacts between associates of President-elect Donald J. Trump and Russians — across the government. Former American officials say they had two aims: to ensure that such meddling isn’t duplicated in future American or European elections, and to leave a clear trail of intelligence for government investigators.

American allies, including the British and the Dutch, had provided information describing meetings in European cities between Russian officials — and others close to Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin — and associates of President-elect Trump, according to three former American officials who requested anonymity in discussing classified intelligence.

At intelligence agencies, there was a push to process as much raw intelligence as possible into analyses, and to keep the reports at a relatively low classification level to ensure as wide a readership as possible across the government — and, in some cases, among European allies. This allowed the upload of as much intelligence as possible to Intellipedia, a secret wiki used by American analysts to share information.

There was also an effort to pass reports and other sensitive materials to Congress. In one instance, the State Department sent a cache of documents marked “secret” to Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland days before the Jan. 20 inauguration. The documents, detailing Russian efforts to intervene in elections worldwide, were sent in response to a request from Mr. Cardin, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and were shared with Republicans on the panel. […] – NYTimes

So NOW we know why Trump amped up his attacks against the "Fake News" media. He knew that more Russian-related info was about to be revealed.

"Sessions under fire over Russia meetings"

Top congressional Democrats called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign Wednesday after revelations that he had met with the Russian ambassador in the months before the election — meetings that Sessions did not disclose during his confirmation hearings.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) led the effort late on Wednesday night, accusing Sessions of "lying under oath" during confirmation proceedings about his contacts with the Russians.

"The Attorney General must resign,” Pelosi wrote in a statement. “There must be an independent, bipartisan, outside commission to investigate the Trump political, personal and financial connections to the Russians.” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking member on the House oversight committee, also called on Sessions to resign, as did Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).

In a statement in the wee hours of Thursday morning, Sessions said,

"I never met with any Russian officials to discuss issues of the campaign." "I have no idea what this allegation is about," he added in his short statement. "It is false."

The news — first reported by the Washington Post — that Sessions met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak twice last year, including a conversation in Sessions' Senate office, may be the political smoking gun Democrats have been looking for. They've been pushing for months to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any ties between Donald Trump's campaign and Russian government officials, following a steady drumbeat of news stories saying there had been repeated contacts.

It wasn't just Democrats amping up the pressure. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said a special prosecutor should be appointed if investigators find any evidence of wrongdoing by the Trump campaign, adding that Sessions should recuse himself from any investigation into contacts between the campaign and Russia. […] – Politico

Amen to that.

LOL you ain't never lied Truth.