SSCI calls bullshit on Papadopoulos' claim not to have told the campaign about Russia's coming efforts.

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/report_volume5.pdf

Unlike Trump TRANSITION officials, Obama officials were willing to tell the truth openly.

Trump claimed privilege over a document that a Russian connected consultant wrote for Flynn.

Flynn proffered to Mueller he didn't remember speaking to him.



"I don't remember speaking to that guy I lied about privilege on to hide information from you."

Both Jr and KT McFarland weren't allowed to know by their lawyers that they were in the Trump JDA.

So all the people prosecuted by Mueller tried to get immunity. Rosenstein refused.

SSCI did NOT try to get Papadopoulos' testimony after Mueller finished, and failed to get the other four.

Huh. Emin was willing to speak to SSCI but canceled an entire tour to avoid speaking to Mueller.

SSCI tried to get FBI's files on the five people who invoked 5A, but DOJ (after saying it would comply) did not.

SSCI, @JasonLeopold feels your pain.

SSCI describes Manafort as conducting influence operations for Deripaska, the guy he sent campaign data to.

The bipartisan SSCI says, with no caveats, that Kilimnik is a RU intelligence officer (not even former).

That's the guy who was getting the polling data.

SSCI says Kilimnik may have been involved in the hack-and-leak in 3 different ways, and not just with Manafort.

When your campaign manager has to use 10 different encrypted apps to keep in touch with his handler in Russia.

SSCI particularly irked that Manafort lied so assiduously about his interactions with his handler.

Ivanka takes the pivotal step of recommending Manafort saying, "Daddy, Tom says we should get Paul."

This entirely classified bit describes how at the same time Manafort was brought on (March 16, not March 29 when it was publicly announced), GRU was hacking Democratic targets, including John Podesta.

Also, Kilimnik--whom SSCI says, straight out, is a GRU officer--was in the US in March 2016, when that hackin was going on.

Remember that Stone may have known abt some of this ahead of time.

AWESOME detail: Immediately before the Kilimnik meeting in the cigar bar, Manafort met with Trump and ***Rudy***.

Department of "Footnotes you really want to see declassified."

There are five pages describing Paul Manafort employee Konstantin Kilimnik's possible role in the hack-and-leak (including some tie to Cyber Berkut). https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7039357-200818-SSCI-Russia-Report.html#document/p99/a576846

One interesting detail: SSCI interviewed Bannon in November 2018. By that point, his evolving story had evolved closer to the truth. Yet SSCI still referred him (per LAT).

SSCI mentions that Trump Org had "deficiencies" (that is, failed to comply with subpoenas) way down here in footnote 547.

[We knew this from HPSCI, bc Trump Org withheld details on the Trump Tower deal, in a way that accords with Trump's testimony]

Rudy helping Manafort place people on the campaign.

Here SSCI calls Deripaska a "Kremlin agent," along with Kilimnik.

Somewhere in these redactions John Solomon gets introduced for his role in spreading pro-Russian disnformation.

A summary of Kilimnik's twitter content.

There are redacted pages and redacted pages of this report that might be subtitled, "What @RonJohnsonWI is doing with his Committee instead of fighting COVID."

There are other references that, by context, must be to [Deripaska advisor] Georgy Oganov. So this redaction is pretty funny.

Mitch McConnell to the White Bought Off by Deripaska courtesy phone.

It was clear from Sam Patten's plea he was referred for false statements about something other than he was charged for (straw donations). This suggests it was about denying ties with Boyarkin.

SSCI asserts as fact that Deripaska has ties to hacking campaigns (tho not necessarily the 2016 one).

Key detail: 1) Manafort admitted (in the proffer he later reneged on) that he tested whether Kilimnik was a spy 2) he later denied that Kilimnik was a spy.

So ... he knew, while he was sharing campaign data with Russia after they had attacked the Dems.

Kilimnik offered to get Patten's legal fees paid for.

Which reminds me -- we don't know who paid for Manafort's legal fees.

If I had a nickel for every denialist claim that Kilimnik was a great source for the Embassy in Ukraine, when in fact he was securing visas for people he wanted in the US.