Thread by @LisaDNews

BREAKING: Senate Intelligence Committee has just released its final report in its investigation of Russia, 2016, the FBI and the Trump Campaign.

There are bipartisan conclusions and separate conclusions from each party.

Read here: intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

FINDINGS:

- The Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

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SEN INTEL RE: MANAFORT:

"Taken as a whole, Manafort's high level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services ... represented a grave counterintelligence threat. "

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THIS - SENATE INTEL RE: PUTIN:
"The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian
effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak
information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. "

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SEN INTEL, TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND WIKILEAKS:

"Staff on the Trump Campaign sought advance notice about WikiLeaks releases,
created messaging strategies to promote and share the materials in anticipation of and following
their release, and encouraged further leaks. "

More...
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SEN INTEL CONCLUSION:

"The Trump Campaign publicly undermined the attribution of the hack-and-leak campaign to Russia and was indifferent to whether it and WikiLeaks were furthering a Russian election interference effort. "

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TRUMP TOWER: "The Committee found evidence suggesting ...it was the intent of the Campaign participants in the ... meeting, particularly Donald Trump Jr., to receive derogatory info. ... from a source known, at least by Trump Jr., to have connections to the Russian govt"
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TRUMP TRANSITION WEAK POINT: "Russia took advantage of members of the Transition Team's relative inexperience in
government ... and Trump's desire to deepen ties
with Russia to pursue unofficial channels through which Russia could conduct
diplomacy."
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"The Transition Team repeatedly took actions that had the potential, and sometimes the effect, of interfering in the Obama Admin's diplomatic efforts. This created
confusion among U.S. allies ... most notably surrounding negotiations over
a UN ... Resolution on Israel."

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THE FBI: "The Committee found that certain FBI procedures and actions in response to the
Russian threat to the 2016 elections were flawed ..."

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OK, now we go to the partisan additional views in the report. In order as presented, first the Republicans.

Sens. Risch, Rubio, Blunt, Cotton, Cornyn, and Sasse wrote this two-page addition.

---> NOTE: Sen Burr did not join them. He did not offer any additional views.

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THIS. GOP INTEL CONCLUSION:

"The Committee found no evidence that then-candidate
Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government in its efforts to meddle in the election." (Pg. 941)

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GOP INTEL CONCLUSIONS, more, the FBI FAILED:

"While this Volume did not find evidence of collusion between President Trump and the Russians, it does detail a stunning accounting of the FBl's sloppy work and poor judgment."

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NO COLLUSION, GOP Intel members stressed, in bold print:

"After more than three years of investigation by this Committee, we can now say with no doubt, there was no collusion."

(Reminder: this was signed by all GOP members of Senate Intel except Burr.)

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Now to the Democrats' additional views on the Senate Intelligence Russia investigation.

(Starts pg 957.)

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THIS. DEMS ON SENATE INTEL CONCLUDED Trump team cooperated w the Russians.

"The Committee's bipartisan Report unambiguously shows that members of the Trump Campaign cooperated _with Russian efforts to get Trump elected."

"These are stubborn facts that cannot be ignored."

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DEMS' ALARM RE: MANAFORT "The Committee's bipartisan Report found that Paul Manafort, while ... Chairman of the Trump Campaign, was secretly communicating w a Russian intelligence officer w whom he discussed Campaign strategy and ... shared internal Campaign polling data."

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DEMS SEEM TO CHARGE COLLUSION BY MANAFORT: " "Manafort took steps to hide these communications and repeatedly lied to
federal investigators, and his deputy destroyed evidence of communications
with the Russian intelligence officer."

More... it's a long quote.

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DEMS RAISE COLLUSION:
"The Committee obtained ... info. suggesting that
the Russian intelligence officer, w whom Manafort had a longstanding relationship, may have been connected to the GRU's... operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election. This is what collusion looks like."

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TRUMP TEAM, HACKING. Senate Dems conclude: "The Committee's bipartisan Report found that a member of the Trump Campaign's
foreign policy advisory team was provided w advance notice of the Russian plot to
anonymously release hacked emails that would damage Trump's opponent"

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INTEL DEMS ON TRUMP TOWER: "That the Campaign leadership's desire to coordinate w Russia failed in this ... instance is hardly exculpatory; ... it is emblematic of the ... intent + willingness to work w Russia in hopes of influencing the U.S. election to their benefit. "

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SENATE INTEL DEMS WARN ABOUT 2020, Trump associates now:

"Russia is actively interfering again in the 2020 U.S. election to assist Donald Trump, and some of the President's associates are amplifying those efforts. It is vitally important that the country be ready."

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SENATE DEMS CONCLUDE: Russians' "assault on the ... 2016 U.S. electoral process and Trump and his associates' participation in + enabling of this ... represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modem era."

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And those are the toplines from the main findings and the partisan additional views attached.

I *highly recommend* folks interested also check out @NatashaBertrand's Twitter feed for detailed looks at the body of the report.

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