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The spies who came in to the Congress.

No American president in living memory has been contradicted in public by intelligence chiefs as unambiguously as Donald Trump was when the director of the National Security Agency and the director of the FBI went to Capitol Hill on Monday. Veteran observer James Naughtie on why it's now all in the open and why the alleged Russia link is likely to dog his presidency.

Photo: FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Rogers attend House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington.
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