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The Known Unknowns Swirling Around the Trump-Russia Scandal
The Known Unknowns Swirling Around the Trump-Russia Scandal
The near-daily barrage of news and revelations, big and small, about the Trump campaign and its metastasizing ties to Russia can be hard to keep track of, even for people following the scandal closely. Story lines and players appear and disappear, sometimes for weeks or even months at a time.
While there remain big, overarching questions about whether there was active conspiracy between Trump, his associates, and Russia—or merely opportunistic collusion—the answers to those questions could be amorphous and long in coming.
More simply and immediately, there’s plenty of information that we know we don’t yet know about what went on in the campaign, from cyber meddling to clandestine meetings surveilled by US and other intelligence agencies—missing puzzle pieces that we can discern from the revelations that have come out so far. As Donald Rumsfeld famously said in the early days of the Iraq War, “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.”
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12. Why was Oleg Erovinkin murdered?
The former top KGB official died suspiciously in December, just weeks after he had been publicly linked to the mysterious “dossier” compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. The dossier traced a variety of links between Trump associates and Russian intelligence and business leaders. While Russia announced that Erovinkin died alone in his car of a heart attack, other reports point to foul play—including the simple fact that it’s inherently suspicious that a high-profile figure like him would be alone without a driver or bodyguards. Erovinkin served in both the KGB and its successor, the FSB, and also more recently worked for the oligarch Igor Sechin, the head of the Russian oil giant Rosneft and a close associate of Putin himself.
More: https://www.wired.com/story/the-known-unknowns-swirling-around-the-trump-russia-scandal?mbid=social_tw_nat
The near-daily barrage of news and revelations, big and small, about the Trump campaign and its metastasizing ties to Russia can be hard to keep track of, even for people following the scandal closely. Story lines and players appear and disappear, sometimes for weeks or even months at a time.
While there remain big, overarching questions about whether there was active conspiracy between Trump, his associates, and Russia—or merely opportunistic collusion—the answers to those questions could be amorphous and long in coming.
More simply and immediately, there’s plenty of information that we know we don’t yet know about what went on in the campaign, from cyber meddling to clandestine meetings surveilled by US and other intelligence agencies—missing puzzle pieces that we can discern from the revelations that have come out so far. As Donald Rumsfeld famously said in the early days of the Iraq War, “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.”
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12. Why was Oleg Erovinkin murdered?
The former top KGB official died suspiciously in December, just weeks after he had been publicly linked to the mysterious “dossier” compiled by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. The dossier traced a variety of links between Trump associates and Russian intelligence and business leaders. While Russia announced that Erovinkin died alone in his car of a heart attack, other reports point to foul play—including the simple fact that it’s inherently suspicious that a high-profile figure like him would be alone without a driver or bodyguards. Erovinkin served in both the KGB and its successor, the FSB, and also more recently worked for the oligarch Igor Sechin, the head of the Russian oil giant Rosneft and a close associate of Putin himself.
More: https://www.wired.com/story/the-known-unknowns-swirling-around-the-trump-russia-scandal?mbid=social_tw_nat
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