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Last night's big WikiLeaks news sheds new light on one of last year's most controversial stories: the allegation that Paul Manafort met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in March 2016. theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Manafort and Assange denied it (of course). The Guardian's report notes: "Visitors normally register with embassy security guards and show their passports. Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not logged."
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Last night, we learned how that could be true: Because Assange had the ability to sneak guests pass security and delete names from the visitor logs, making it easy to cover up his actions.
cnn.com/2019/07/15/pol…
cnn.com/2019/07/15/pol…
That doesn't prove Manafort visited Assange. But it certainly undermines their denials—and shows just how many questions remain in the Russia investigation.
cnn.com/2019/07/15/pol…
cnn.com/2019/07/15/pol…
This week on #TheAsset, we broke down some of those unanswered questions, including ones involving Manafort and WikiLeaks: theassetpodcast.org/episode/conspi…
