Thread by @Farrier105

@aaronjmate What would it matter if Manafort gave Kilimnik "campaign data" whatever the hell that is? It isn't a national security secret, it is "campaign stuff." The campaign was Manafort's new assignment since he failed to move the Yanukovych in Ukraine toward EU and NATO, after using...

@aaronjmate ...his influence on behalf of the State Department and CIA to do so (in order to hold off FBI/DOJ investigations of his white collar crimes) which was his previous assignment. So, he talks about his new gig with Kilimnik, the important Ukrainian source for the Obama...

@aaronjmate ...Administration, whom Manafort introduced to the US Embassy personnel in Kiev which launched Kilimnik's work trading "information" with State Department and CIA personnel in the Embassy there. Manafort knows Kilimnik, so he talks shop with him. Manafort has no access...

@aaronjmate ...to actual NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION that Kilimnik can give to Putin. The people who have that are the Obama Administration people who "trade information" with Kilimnik. All Manafort tells him his Trump campaign stuff like poll results that Putin could get on...

@aaronjmate ...the Internet and is the property of THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, not the United States Government. It is NOT ILLEGAL to talk about such things with a Russian or any other foreigner. It is not classified information of the USGOV bearing on NATIONAL SECURITY...

@aaronjmate It is Kilimnik's tete-a-tete's with Obama's diplomats and the CIA Station Chief and minions at the Kiev Embassy that should attract the attention of US Counterintelligence. Just how trusted a "trusted source" to the Embassy people WAS Kilimnik, and what was Manafort's....

@aaronjmate relationship with the Embassy people since Manafort introduced Kilimnik to them. Did Tony Podesta vouch for Manafort with Obama and the DNC, or did the CIA vouch for Manafort?

@aaronjmate Just how did the "information exchanges" work between Foreign Service Officers and CIA agents and Kilimnik work at the US Embassy in Kiev? Did CIA people give up a lot for chickenfeed from Kilimnik? Or was Kilimnik's information solid gold? Were we damaged in the...

@aaronjmate ...exchanges? Manafort had nothing of national security importance unless Kilimnik knew about Manafort manipulating Ukraine's President in favor of DC's policy preferences on State and CIA's behalf. The diplomats and CIA personnel did have access to that kind of information.

@aaronjmate realclearpolitics.com/2020/08/25/now…!

@aaronjmate Now, Manafort and Kilimnik are running over the US Embassy in Kiev on a regular basis. Who do you think was watching that? Why the hell would those two be going over there that often when they were working for Viktor Yanukovych? Who has that many passport problems?

@aaronjmate If you are a Russian spy in Kiev, monitoring Embassy traffic and taking photos, you only have one logical explanation---Manafort and Kilimnik are being DEBRIEFED BY US INTELLIGENCE IN THE EMBASSY.

@aaronjmate Guys being debriefed that much are---Wait for it----Assets of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Thanks to the MSM for bringing up Kilimnik since that cements my "assessment" of Manafort as CIA asset.

@aaronjmate Since there is so much pearl clutching about "campaign data" and "sensitive" poll data in regards to helping Russia and Putin, how about this operation to bring the Russian military-industrial complex into the 21st Century?

https://twitter.com/Avery1776/status/1075544151683461121

@aaronjmate So now that we know the Obama/Clinton State Department was not all that hostile toward Moscow, maybe we should take another look at what role Kilimnik was playing in the Manafort Affair.

@aaronjmate Was Kilimnik part of a two-way back channel between Washington and Moscow at this time? Is that out of the question as a possible explanation? Not really, but it isn't the only possibility.

@aaronjmate @threadreaderapp Unroll, please. I'll need this for further research. Thanks.