Trump's 2016 campaign chair was a 'grave counterintelligence threat,'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

had repeated contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds

Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman posed a “grave counterintelligence threat” due to his interaction with people close to the Kremlin, according to a bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday that found extensive contacts between key campaign advisers and officials affiliated with Moscow’s government and intelligence services.

The Senate Intelligence Committee report states that then-campaign chair Paul Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer “on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,” including the idea that purported Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern.

It found that a Russian attorney who met with Manafort, along with the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in 2016, had “significant connections” to the Kremlin. The information she offered them was also “part of a broader influence operation targeting the United States that was coordinated, at least in part with elements of the Russian government,” the report stated.

But the panel also concluded that the FBI’s handling of Russian threats to the election was “flawed,” and that the bureau gave “unjustified credence” to allegations about Trump’s Russia ties made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, “based on an incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/senate-intelligence-trump-russia-report/2020/08/18/62a7573e-e093-11ea-b69b-64f7b0477ed4_story.html

Sounds like they're trying to have it both ways

[abqtommy]

1. None of the information in the op is new. It was available in 2016. But then some may be late

to the "Dump tRUMP" party and need to see this...

[dalton99a]

2. Trump was an eager and willing participant in the conspiracy

[mr_lebowski]

3. In other words, the FBI believed that the should give some creedence to Steele's

reporting, because in the past, he'd provided useful/true information.

After all, the guy WAS MI5 (or is it 6?) and handled Russian matters for many years as an intel officer.

But the Republicans on the committee think the FBI should not have trusted him based on his past reporting as much as they did.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Of course it was flawed. Trump is not in prison. That *should* have been the outcome.

But many people aren't perfect at their job. We just have to try harder the next time. Like, the moment the DoJ is not under the control of Trump's personal lawyer.