US Senate releases intelligence report on Trump-Russia 2016.

[Agema]

US Senate report goes beyond Mueller to lay bare Trump campaign's Russia links

Bipartisan intelligence panel says that Russian who worked on Trump’s 2016 bid was career spy, amid a stunning range of contacts

www.theguardian.com

Bipartisan Senate report details Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016, adding to Mueller findings

The Senate Intelligence Committee released Tuesday the most comprehensive and meticulous examination to date explaining how Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign welcomed the foreign adversary's help, revealing new information about contacts between Russian...

edition.cnn.com

It goes into rather more detail than Mueller, explicitly detailing some of the involvement of Trump campaign staff with Russian operatives. Manafort, for instance, appears to have been communicating with, and handing information to, a Russian intelligence agent. Following the DNC server hack, the Trump campaign via Roger Stone was apparently acquiring advance information about released data from Wikileaks / Russia.

It is not pretty reading. The report strongly suggests that Trump lied to Mueller at least once, but there is nothing directly tying him personally to seeking assistance from Russia. However, it seems clear the Russians were able to carve straight into and exploit the Trump campaign. There is also criticism of the FBI, for taking the Steele dossier too seriously.

 

[dreng3]

And absolutely nothing will come of this. U.S. politicians are so locked in their parties that they are incapable of doing anything for the greater good. Of course the fact that there was never a successful removal of a president counts for something, but Trump is far beyond any of the other impeached presidents.

The very day that I heard Mitch and Graham state that they would not be impartial, despite taking an oath to be so, was the day the sins of the republican party was laid bare. Politicians, people who live on the trust and support of the common public should have to weigh their words with greater care than anybody else, but now there are literal oathbreakers in the U.S. senate, it is shamful.

 

[tstorm823]

"In 2016 Manafort met with Kilimnik, discussed how Trump might beat Hillary Clinton, and gave the Russian spy internal polling data. The committee said it couldn’t “reliably determine” why Manafort handed over this information, or what exactly Kilimnik did with it. It describes Manafort’s willingness to pass on confidential material to alleged Moscow agents as a “grave counterintelligence threat”.

LOL! It all makes sense now. Nobody published the polls suggesting Trump might win because they were confidential material.

 

[Agema]

LOL!

A man with a high place in an election campaign - plus the potential for close contact or even public office afterwards - covertly exchanging material with a Russian intelligence agent is extraordinarily serious.

Well, apart apparently to many Republicans, who'd be happy with Vladimir Putin in Trump's cabinet just as long as it stuck it to the libs.

 

[tstorm823]

A man with a high place in an election campaign - plus the potential for close contact or even public office afterwards - covertly exchanging material with a Russian intelligence agent is extraordinarily serious.

Well, apart apparently to many Republicans, who'd be happy with Vladimir Putin in Trump's cabinet just as long as it stuck it to the libs.

If you can't see the humor in that passage, you're just trying not to have fun.

 

[stroopwafel]

Trump owes a lot to Stone. If he cracked it would have been all over for Trump. But I guess it was a calculated choice because he knew Trump would pardon him.