Senate report finds Manafort passed campaign data to Russian intelligence officer

[FM123]

(Axios) The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released the fifth and final volume of its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, which details "counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities."

Why it matters: The Republican endorsed, 996-page report goes farther than the Mueller report in showing the extent of Russia's connections to members of the Trump campaign, and how the Kremlin was able to take advantage of the transition team's inexperience to gain access to sensitive information.

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The bottom line: "Taken as a whole, Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat," the committee wrote.

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Senate Intelligence ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.): “At nearly 1,000 pages, Volume 5 stands as the most comprehensive examination of ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign to date – a breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives that is a very real counterintelligence threat to our elections. ... This cannot happen again."

Read More: https://www.axios.com/senate-intelligence-russia-interference-971619a8-a806-470a-9de6-1416220ab35b.html

[DonaldsRump]

1. How incompetent was Mueller?

I can't believe he didn't find this, but who knows...maybe he did, and it's buried in redactions.

[frazzled]

5. He did find it

According to the Mueller Report, the Trump campaign chairman and the deputy campaign chairman knowingly met with Konstantin Kilimnik, a suspected Russian agent, and shared confidential internal polling data.

https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/breaking-down-the-mueller-report-konstantin-kilimniks-campaign-work/

According to the Mueller report, former Trump campaign manager Manafort directed associates to reach out to Deripaska and offer him briefings and internal campaign polling data after he joined the Republican candidate’s team. By doing this, Mueller suggested, Manafort was looking to resolve a legal dispute with Deripaska over millions of dollars that Deripaska claimed he was owed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/analysis-the-role-russian-businessmen-played-in-the-mueller-report

[DonaldsRump]

7. Thanks!

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

Lock him up! And put Manafort back in prison where he belongs.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[Botany]

4. This was not just polling data but data analytics that allowed Russia to pin point their rat ...

... fucking operations. And no doubt this is in the Mueller Report that Bill Barr is hiding.

BTW how much press will this get? My bet is almost none.

[moondust]

8. +1

Exactly. It's a big country with a lot of precincts. They needed the data analytics to know where to focus their efforts. Perhaps Cambridge Analytica played a part in that.

[SlogginThroughIt]

12. Of course CA did.

[Bev54]

6. And yet none of these assholes

saw fit to impeach him.

[Roland99]

9. Geee....wonder if that data was part of any of T H I S !!

Link to tweet

New Article about communications between Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health, The Trump Organization
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?

A team of computer scientists sifted thru records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers
https://democraticunderground.com/100211254310



What an odd coincidence. Russia and servers and Trump and DeVos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/1/1605914/-What-an-odd-coincidence-Russia-and-servers-and-Trump-and-DeVos



New Article about communications between Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health, The Trump Organization
Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?

A team of computer scientists sifted through records of unusual Web traffic in search of answers.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211254310




Putin's daughter, Trump Tower internet traffic, Spectrum Health, Betsy DeVos
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210915778

[Blecht]

10. Didn't the US used to execute people for stuff like this? NT

[RainCaster]

11. Hmmm.

It might be time to bring that back.

Though I would love to see Trumps Official Portrait have an orange jumpsuit and bars. An electric chair would be nice, too. History needs to know how much he fucked over our country.

[Duppers]

21. Yes, the Rosenbergs for far less.

Question Everything posted:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213613336

[kentuck]

13. But there was no "collusion"...

Uh-huh.

[Lonestarblue]

14. My thought exactly.

I think I remember that it was conspiracy Mueller was investigating because the legal code does not reference collusion, but how is it not conspiracy when the campaign is sharing campaign data with Russian intelligence and there were dozens of known contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians? You don’t share such data out of the blue without expectation that it will be used.

I suppose conspiracy is extremely difficult to prove, but perhaps Mueller didn’t look very far since it’s been reported that he didn’t look at Trump’s financials, which may have provided some better information about the link between Russia and Trump. After all, it was Manafort’s financials that closed the case on his guilt.

[Duppers]

22. Exactly!

Mueller, imho, acted cowardly.

[marble falls]

25. Woudn't you like to read the entire Mueller report before judging it? Dumping on Mueller ...

Barr's intention with the edited version.

[UTUSN]

15. K&R

[djacq]

16. But her emails?... Where's the media coverage?

[gademocrat7]

17. K&R

Treasonous cabal.

[sure why not]

18. Color me surprised

NOT!

[cayugafalls]

19. The fact that Trump is not in jail for Treason is beyond me.

Something is extremely wrong when obvious crimes go unpunished.

I know things are bad, but how did we get here? How did the Republican party get to the point where crimes against the country were OK with them? I just don't understand the minds of these people.

[Duppers]

23. +100

[JohnnyRingo]

20. And why can't we do something about it?

If he was Hillary's campaign manager, they'd be setting up a firing squad.
I never would have believed our country would come to this.

[certainot]

24. he was also mccain's co-chair in 2008 when putin/manafort used limbaugh to force palin as VP

limbaugh would not support palin until minutes after palin was announced. the announcement was timed for minutes before the start of limbaugh's last show befor ethe convention. it would have been a disaster without limbaugh's blessing - not likely with the other mccain choices. palin had been wooed by russian oil and gas interests.

a lot of leads media's missing and dems just have to get them started. it’s been going on right under our noses — putin using talk radio/limbaugh — unless dr fiona hill is an idiot. all this russian crap/trump got started on the radio.

like ask sam nunberg more about his claim that he “listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio “ for trump back in 2014, the same year the russian ops were running around the country and the same year a russian troll says he got “a list of topics to write about”. nunberg spent a lot of time on MSNBC and was never asked.

or 2009 when llimbaugh kicked off “climategate” just in time to derail copenhagen — based on a russian hack that went through wikileaks and limbaugh got on his desk a few days after. or why would american billionaires want limbaugh to push national debt default for 2 months in 2011?

dems can trigger media interest to look into this stuff and not have to have hearings. or during any related hearing ask a few related questions.