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WASHINGTON
THE US House Intelligence Committee voted on Thursday to release a Republican report on the panel's Russia probe, the leader of the investigation said, a decision that formally ends the panel's examination of Russia and the 2016 US election.
The Republican report found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russian interference in the election. Committee Democrats strongly disputed that finding, and said they will continue to investigate and, eventually, release their own report.
The committee's vote to release the report was along party lines.
Representative Adam Schiff, the panel's top Democrat, told reporters that Republicans had declined every motion offered by Democrats, including requests to subpoena witnesses who refused to answer questions and to charge former Trump adviser Steve Bannon with contempt.
"The (Republican) majority was not interested in conducting any further investigation, even when the flaws in what we have done so far have become so apparent in the course of the last week,"Schiff said.
The committee's chairman, Devin Nunes, said the report was based on more than 70 witness interviews and the collection of more than 300,000 documents, and makes recommendations about improving election security. He said in a statement it"will include minority views if the minority submits them."
Reports have emerged from a whistleblower this week that British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed Facebook Inc users' information to build profiles on American voters later used to help elect Trump in 2016.
Hidden camera footage released by British television showed a company official criticising how the House committee conducted its interview.
A summary of report findings concluded Russia conducted cyber attacks on U.S. political institutions, using social media to undermine the electoral process. It acknowledged contacts between Trump associates and representatives of the Russian governments, including Russian efforts to set up a"back channel"to communicate with Trump's team after his election, but said it had not found evidence of collusion.
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