When President Trump visited the agency on his second day in office, he stood several floors below the point of origin for a probe that would define his first 18 months in office.
The U.S. president says Putin was “extremely strong and powerful in his denial” of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
It finds no evidence of wrongdoing by the Trump campaign but accuses the intelligence community of significant failings. House Democrats dispute the findings.
Haspel was in charge of a CIA “black site” in Thailand where al-Qaeda suspects were waterboarded.
The president’s characterization of conversations with leaders is missing some complex context, experts say.
The frightening mistake, not corrected for 38 minutes, was attributed to an employee’s errant push of a button.