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just reading between the lines of FakeNewsCNN would suggest DiGenova is on to something. besides, how extraordinary Obama was talking about Comey informing him “in the next few weeks” etc when President Trump would be inaugurated 2 weeks after the meeting? unbelievable:

12 Feb: CNN: Obama admin discussed how much to share about Russia with incoming Trump team
By Manu Raju, Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen,
President Barack Obama met in January 2017 with then-FBI Director James Comey and other top national security officials to discuss sharing information related to Russia with the incoming Trump administration, where Obama stated that the Trump-Russia investigation should be handled “by the book,” according to an email made public Monday and a source familiar with the matter.

The previously undisclosed meeting was memorialized in an email written by then-National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day...
A person familiar with the January 5, 2017, meeting said the Obama administration wanted to know whether the FBI and others in the intelligence community believed there was a national security reason to limit conversations with the Trump transition about Russia because some on the incoming President’s team could be compromised.

The email was disclosed by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Lindsey Graham, who sent a letter Monday to Rice asking why she had sent the email to herself on the day of Trump’s inauguration about an Oval Office meeting on Russian election interference. The meeting included Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Comey and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates...

“There is nothing ‘unusual’ about the National Security Advisor memorializing an important discussion for the record,” Kathryn Ruemmler, a counsel for Rice, said in a statement. “The Obama White House was justifiably concerned about how comprehensive they should be in their briefings regarding Russia to members of the Trump transition team, particularly Lt. General Michael Flynn, given the concerning communications between him and Russian officials.”...

Rice wrote in the email that the meeting she referenced was a “brief, follow-on conversation” after Obama was briefed the same day by Comey, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-CIA Director John Brennan and National Security Agency Director Adm. Mike Rogers about the soon-to-be-published intelligence community report that concluded that Russia meddled in the election to help Trump win. That briefing included mention of the relationship between incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak, according to The Washington Post, as well as mention of the dossier.

As a foreign diplomat from a hostile country, Kislyak’s communications were regularly under surveillance authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He spoke by phone to Flynn in late December 2016, when Flynn told Kislyak that the incoming Trump administration would appreciate if Moscow did not retaliate, according to court filings...

Rice wrote: “The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.”...
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/12/politics/susan-rice-email-russia-investigation-trump-team/index.html