Manafort Was a YUGE Counterintelligence Threat

[bestone4ever]

As opposed to Trump who is a threat to America's intelligence. BTW, this is from a non-partisan Senate panel.

Trump’s 2016 campaign chair was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ had repeated contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds

President Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman posed a “grave counterintelligence threat” due to his interaction with people close to the Kremlin, according to a bipartisan Senate report released Tuesday that also found extensive contacts between key campaign advisers and officials affiliated with Moscow’s government and intelligence services.

The Senate Intelligence Committee report states that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort worked with a Russian intelligence officer “on narratives that sought to undermine evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election,” including the idea that Ukrainian election interference was of greater concern.

The report states that a Russian attorney who met with Manafort, the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner at Trump Tower in 2016 had “significant connections” to the Kremlin. The information she offered to them was also “part of a broader influence operation targeting the United States that was coordinated, at least in part with elements of the Russian government,” the report states.

But the panel also found that the FBI’s handling of Russian threats to the election were “flawed,” and that the FBI gave “unjustified credence” to other allegations regarding Trump’s Russia ties that were made in a dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, “based on an incomplete understanding of Steele’s past reporting record.”

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s three and a half year investigation stands as Congress’s only bipartisan examination of Russian interference in the 2016 election. But the panel’s leaders were noticeably divided along party lines in how they interpreted the significance of the report — particularly concerning Trump’s Russia contacts — a sign that their tome will likely not put to rest the political fights over its substance.

“We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election,” acting chairman Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in a statement Tuesday morning, though the acknowledged the “what the Committee did find however is very troubling” and included “irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling.”

Vice Chairman Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), meanwhile, noted “a breathtaking level of contacts between Trump officials and Russian government operatives that is a very real counterintelligence threat to our elections,” and he encouraged “all Americans to carefully review the documented evidence of the unprecedented and massive intervention campaign waged on behalf of then-candidate Donald Trump by Russians and their operatives and to reach their own independent conclusions.”

 

[Dribble]

Of course Trump is a Russian pawn. I would use him too.

 

[Trumpedo]

Oh, so there was good reason for the fbi to watch what the trump campaign was up to. Imagine that.

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1295721239454142467?s=21

Nice breakdown here. She always delivers.

 

[Wrong Element]

As opposed to Trump who is a threat to America's intelligence. BTW, this is from a non-partisan Senate panel.

Trump’s 2016 campaign chair was a ‘grave counterintelligence threat,’ had repeated contact with Russian intelligence, Senate panel finds

So there were a lot of contacts between various Russians and the Trump campaign, and Russia definitely interfered in the election. What we're not allowed to do, apparently, is add 2 and 2.

 

[BellOH]

So there were a lot of contacts between various Russians and the Trump campaign, and Russia definitely interfered in the election. What we're not allowed to do, apparently, is add 2 and 2.

How?

 

[Lady2020]

https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1295721239454142467?s=21

Nice breakdown here. She always delivers.

Yes, she does. Manafort was a no-brainer as an intelligence threat, given his well-documented history in political arena.

 

[KeithD]

Let's see. There was absolutely no evidence that the Trump campaign was connected to the Russians but the campaign chairman was up to his neck in connections with the Russians. Yeah, sure, that makes perfect sense.

 

[BellOH]

Let's see. There was absolutely no evidence that the Trump campaign was connected to the Russians but the campaign chairman was up to his neck in connections with the Russians. Yeah, sure, that makes perfect sense.

he did work for Ukraine so he would be

you know, Like Bidens kid and Podesta and others

is is ILLEGAL to have connections in Russia or Germany or ANYWHERE?

 

[doowdniw]

Sharing internal polling information with a Russian intelligence agent. Yep, definitely no collusion with the Russians.

 

[BellOH]

Polling info is available anywhere

If u read the report, u would have the answer to that


Btw, how is that interference

 

[BellOH]

Interfered

How

 

[BellOH]

What does meddling mean and how does it mean ANYTHING

 

[BellOH]

for 4 yrs I have asked

what does meddling mean and what did it accomplish?

what does interfere mean and what did it accomplish?

no answer

YET

 

[butters]

and just like putin seeking to remain president for life, trump touts this to his troo believers:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1295475269504032769

TRUMP: "We are going to win four more years. And then after that we'll go for another four years, because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."

not leave if he loses the election, calling for extra terms... how long before he outright says he's gonna 'sign a proclamation' stating he can be president for as long as he jolly well wants and if we don't like it, sucks to be us.

 

[BellOH]

^^^deranged dingbat

 

[schism666]

^^^deranged dingbat

what part of "non-partisan senate panel" did you not understand? your boy(s) are russian assets so just deal with it and help us liberals make america great again.

 

[schism666]

what does meddling mean and what did it accomplish?

what does interfere mean and what did it accomplish?

wrong tab, retard.

why don't you ask the NON-PARTISAN senate panel?

 

[Dribble]

They think we won't resort to another civil war if we must. Not a path I want to walk...but it is a path I will walk to assure my children a future.

 

[schism666]

They think we won't resort to another civil war if we must. Not a path I want to walk...but it is a path I will walk to assure my children a future.

shut the fuck up with that dumb shit.

 

[Dribble]

shut the fuck up with that dumb shit.

Fascism has no place in this country.

 

[DeluxAuto]

Like was never a Russian asset.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I read thru the whole report

They NEVER said anything about

what does meddling mean and what did it accomplish?

what does interfere mean and what did it accomplish?

It is not our fault you are an ignoramus and can't understand the English language...did the report use too many big words, Busybody?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I read thru it

DID YOU?



They NEVER said anything about

what does meddling mean and what did it accomplish?

what does interfere mean and what did it accomplish?

*Chuckles*, again it is not our fault you cannot comprehend English...maybe you are just a Russian troll Busybody...

 

[adrina]

Republican led senate committee.