Thread by @karolcummins

The Senate Intel Committee VOL V supporting some of the key findings made by former special counsel Robert Mueller.

Committee made DOJ referrals about some witnesses it says may have misled Congress; Manafort was ‘grave counterintelligence threat’ wsj.com/articles/senat…

“The lack of vet­ting of for­eign in­ter­ac­tions by Tran­si­tion of­fi­cials left the Tran­si­tion open to in­flu­ence and ma­nip­u­la­tion by for­eign in­tel­li­gence ser­vices, gov­’t lead­ers, and co-opted busi­ness ex­ec­u­tives,” the re­port said.

wsj.com/articles/senat…

A sub­stan­tial por­tion of the re­port fo­cuses on the con­nec­tions of one-time Trump cam­paign chair­man Paul Man­afort with Kon­stan­tin Kil­imnik, whom the re­port de­scribes as a Russ­ian in­tel­ of­fi­cer, & Rus­sia-aligned oli­garchs in Ukraine.

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“Mr. Man­afort’s high-level cam­paign ac­cess and will­ing­ness to share in­for­ma­tion with Mr. Kil­imnik and oth­ers “rep­re­sented a grave coun­ter­in-tel­li­gence threat,” the re­port con-cluded.”

wsj.com/articles/senat…

📌”Among the re­port’s other find­ings were that the an­ti­se­crecy group Wik­i­Leaks, which pub­lished hacked De­mo­c­ra­tic emails dur­ing the 2016 cam­paign, “likely knew it was as­sist­ing a Russ­ian in­tel­li­gence in­flu­ence ef­fort.””

wsj.com/articles/senat…

U.S. in­tel­li­gence agen­cies had pre­vi­ously con­cluded Wik­i­Leaks re­ceived the hacked ma­te­r­ial from Russ­ian spy ser­vices but were more cir­cum­spect about whether the group or its founder, Ju­lian As­sange, were aware they were aid­ing Mos­cow.

wsj.com/articles/senat…

📌There is strong ev­i­dence that Mr. Trump, via close as­sociate Roger Stone, kept tabs on Wik­i­Leaks’ ef­fort.

📌Mr. Trump, in writ­ten an­swers to spe­cial coun­sel Mueller, had said he re­called no such con­ver­sa­tions. #Purjury

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📌”The Com­mit­tee as­sesses that Trump did, in fact, speak with Stone about Wik­i­Leaks and with mem­bers of his Cam­paign about Stone’s ac­cess to Wik­i­Leaks on mul­ti­ple oc­ca­sions,” the re­port said.”

wsj.com/articles/senat…

📌One such con­ver­sa­tion likely took place on Oct. 6, 2016, the day be­fore Wik­i­Leaks re­leased emails and other doc­u­ments hacked from De­mo­c­rat Hillary Clin­ton’s cam­paign chief John Podesta, it said.

wsj.com/articles/senat…

“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,”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

📌”Moscow’s intent was to harm the HRC Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential adm, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, & undermine the U.S. democratic process.”

TeamTrump were all in to help Putin.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

“Manafort “created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign,” the report said.”

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The committee was particularly concerned about Manafort’s sharing of information with people it says were affiliated with Russian intelligence services and associates of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

📌G.O.P.-Led Senate Panel Details Extensive Ties Between 2016 Trump Campaign and Russian Interference

📌A nearly 1,000-page report confirmed the special counsel’s findings at a moment when President Trump’s allies have sought to undermine that inquiry.

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

📌The report showed extensive evidence of contacts between Trump campaign advisers & people tied to the Kremlin — including a longstanding associate of Manafort, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, whom the report identifies as a “Russian intelligence officer.”

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

🔑Manafort discussed campaign strategy and shared internal campaign polling data with Mr. Kilimnik, and later lied to federal investigators about his actions.#Perjury

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

🔑”Investigators had uncovered information possibly tying Mr. Kilimnik to Russia’s major election interference operations conducted by the [Russian Military] intelligence service known as the G.R.U.”

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

“The committee obtained some info suggesting that Kilimnik, may have been connected to the G.R.U.’s hack-and-leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election.”

“This is what collusion looks like.” DEMs assert, GOP say meh..🤷‍♀️

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

The assertion was a sign that even though the inv’n was carried out in bipartisan fashion, and GOP & DEM senators reached broad agreement on its most significant conclusions, a partisan divide remained on some of the most politically sensitive issues.

nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/…

Senate Intelligence Report
VOLUME 5

intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

🔑When witnesses presented both counterintelligence and criminal concerns, the Committee's priority was the counterintelligence threat.

intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

🔑Where counterintelligence concerns and criminal activity overlapped, the Committee worked with law enforcement stakeholders to find an appropriate way forward that would best serve the Committee's investigative purpose without jeopardizing ongoing ...

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🔑Where counterintelligence concerns and CRIMINAL activity overlapped, the Committee worked with law enforcement stakeholders to find an appropriate way forward that would best serve the Committee's investigative purpose without jeopardizing ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS OR PROSECUTIONS

Where the two goals were in conflict, the Committee accommodated law enforcement imperatives. 🔥🔥🔥

intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/…

i. (U) Referrals

(U) The Committee made referrals for potential criminal activity uncovered during the course·ofthe investigation. A list ofthese referrals is provided in Annex A, which is fully REDACTED, as are B & C.

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Trump Kompromat

https://twitter.com/davidcorndc/status/1295736549682950146?s=21

Obstruction

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1295735170125967363?s=21

Ivanka suggests “Daddy” hire Paul

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1295744333031890945?s=21

Eric’s thread re Vol 5
🔥🔥🔥

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295718962525765636?s=21

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295718962525765636

Kilimnik (GRU) > Telizhenko > Giuliani > @SenRonJohnson re “Biden dirt”

https://twitter.com/jamesfourm/status/1295748482456793089?s=21

https://twitter.com/jamesfourm/status/1295748482456793089

Kilimnik’s sock account:

https://twitter.com/911corlebra777/status/1295754518785753089?s=21

https://twitter.com/911corlebra777/status/1295754518785753089

These and other revelations in the report suffice to establish that Trump poses a counterintel threat to the US .... follow the money:

https://twitter.com/truestevebannon/status/1295746082094190597?s=21

More tid bits ⬆️⬇️

https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1295747311507841028?s=21

https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1295747311507841028

Foresman thread:

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1138077179189874688?s=21

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1219090179895414789?s=21

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1219090179895414789

@SenateGOP & @HouseGOP were all in having Manafort (& Stone) run the Trump 2016 campaign despite their notorious history of working with corrupt Russian oligarchs & monstrous dictators around the world.

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295756691565355008?s=21

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295756691565355008

The firm ‘Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly’ known colloquially as the ‘The Torturers’ Lobby’
cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/legacy_project…

Paul Manafort, American Hustler
Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Manafort banked in Cyprus:

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295754917513232384?s=21

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1295754917513232384

💰Bank of Cyprus & TeamTrump

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1147228331944714240?s=21

💰FBME Bank 👉🏼Cyprus👉🏼Russia
👉🏼Aaron Banks 👉🏼Trump👉🏼Manafort

https://twitter.com/karolcummins/status/1147602679859777536?s=21

🔑Former GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher had more extensive contacts with Russian officials attempting to influence US politics than previously known, the Senate Intelligence Committee said in a report released Monday.

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

🔑In June 2016, House GOP @GOPLeader (R-Calif.) told colleagues: “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump.” McCarthy, who reportedly said “Swear to God” when lawmakers laughed at that assertion, has claimed he was joking. 

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

The committee report describes an April 2016 meeting that Rohrabacher and Behrends had in Moscow with Vladimir Yakunin, the former president of Russian Railways and a close confidant of Putin.

Yakunin at the time was under US sanctions.

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

📌The committee said that Yakunin “is significantly involved in Russian influence activities, including those targeting elections.”

📌Much of the report’s information on Yakunin is redacted.

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

Paul Behrends, who was top aide to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, no longer works as staff director for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after stories at The Daily Beast and The Atlantic examined his relationship with pro-Kremlin figures.

thedailybeast.com/gop-aide-paul-…

Peter Smith’s (deceased) search for HRC’s deleted emails.

Smith also kept Flynn and Clovis in the loop. On Oct 10, he forwarded Flynn's son the update on his initiative and the WikiLeaks materials.

p 873

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On Oct 15, Smith updated Flynn, Flynn's son, Barbara Ledeen, and Sam Clovis
p 873

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On October 24, after Smith sent another email about WikiLeaks, he received a response from Charles Johnson (aka floor pooper/mega troll) threatening that "Steve," likely a reference to Bannon, would sue him for the documents.

P873
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https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1295723474045083648?s=21

https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1295723474045083648

‼️Mem­bers of the 2016 Trump cam­paign rep­re­sented a ma­jor coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence risk to the U.S. due to their fre­quent con­tacts with in­di­vid­u­als with close ties to the Russ­ian gov­’t, a bi­par­ti­san Sen­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion has con­cluded.
wsj.com/articles/senat…

Man­afort might have been con­nected to the Russ­ian in­tel­li­gence op­ to hack and leak De­mo­c­ra­tic emails as part of its broader ef­fort to den­i­grate Hillary Clin­ton’s can­di­dacy and sup­port Mr. Trump’s cam­paign —the de­tails are redacted.

wsj.com/articles/senat…

There is also some ev­i­dence to sug­gest that Mr. Kil­imnik was tied to the hack-and-leak op­er­a­tion, al­though that as­sess­ment is based on what the re­port calls “a body of frag­men­tary in­for­ma­tion.”

wsj.com/articles/senat…

Hey @stevenmnuchin1 & @senatemajldr

Deripaska’s company RUSAL is a proxy for the Kremlin. How about that? What say you?

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1295797617558016009?s=21

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1295797617558016009

Russia's Rusal was sanctioned by the US. Now it's investing $200 million in a Kentucky mill.

Payoff for subverting the 2016 election? @stevenmnuchin1 @senatemajldr

cnn.com/2019/04/15/bus…

📌How a McConnell-backed effort to lift Russian sanctions boosted a KY project

Deripaska has acted as a proxy for the Russian state and intelligence services.

Deripaska has managed/financed Kremlin-approved and -directed active measures, info ops & elex interference efforts

@threadreaderapp unroll please and thank you