No Collusion Found... Again.

[SackMan518]

Welp... I guess they could always try again with another partisan investigation with false info. Curiously there is no mention of Clinesmith falsifying paperwork to paint a person, Page, as working for the Russians instead of with the US and against the Russians as well as the many other egregious actions of the intelligence community. That story hasn't really made it to the MSM news and he's painted as a "low level attorney." I know the Leftists will cry that it was written by Republicans but they're forgetting that Rubio is pure RINO and he did leave in some more untruthful nuggets like the Manafort-Kilimnik connection and the business about Wikileaks who did not receive the information from any Russians which is why Assange is locked up. If anything, the whole affair serves as an example of how incompetent the government is even in fabricating evidence to frame someone. Oh yeah, and government money was used to pay for this bogus intelligence which means that we did.

No collusion in 2016 between Trump campaign and Russia: Senate Intelligence Committee report

 

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence found no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election, but campaign members’ frequent contact with people linked to the Kremlin raised counterintelligence concerns, according to a bipartisan report released Tuesday.

The fifth and final volume of the panel’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election largely mirrored the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, which also failed to show a Trump-Russia conspiracy.

Mr. Mueller, who wrapped up his investigation last year, confirmed that Russia interfered in the 2016 election but did so without coordination from the Trump campaign.

 

Still, the intelligence committee went beyond Mr. Mueller’s conclusions in several key ways.

Among the report’s most important revelations were concerns that President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had ties to people linked to the Russian government; Russian officials tried to exploit the inexperience of Mr. Trump’s transition team; and candidate Trump closely watched WikiLeaks’ release of damaging emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

 

The panel assailed the FBI for failing to verify allegations of a salacious, unverified dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. FBI agents relied on the dossier, in part, to obtain a warrant to surveil Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Steele dossier

Committee members dinged the FBI for failing to take the necessary steps to validate Mr. Steele’s conclusions and not giving the dossier closer scrutiny after a subsource raised concerns about its reliability.

As of the date of the report, “almost all” assertions in the Steele dossier remain unverified, said the intelligence committee, which is led by acting Chairman Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, and Sen. Mark R. Warner, Virginia Democrat. Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, was chairman for most of the committee’s probe.

The FBI gave the Steele dossier “unjustified credence” and failed to change course even after one of Mr. Steele’s subsources raised serous concerns about his accuracy, according to the report.

“Steele’s reporting lacked rigor and transparency about the quality of the sourcing,” the senators wrote.

The panel’s conclusions ultimately dispute Mr. Trump’s claims that Russian interference was a hoax, but it also counters Democrats’ claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the election.

Differing conclusions

The mixed results left Republicans and Democrats drawing different conclusions as Election Day approaches.

Republicans and Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign hailed the findings as an exoneration, reviving their frequent complaint that the Russia collusion investigation was a hoax.

The report’s “additional views” section highlights the partisan divide in the panel’s conclusions. Republicans on the committee wrote that the investigation shows, “with no doubt, there was no collusion.”

But Democrats wrote that the evidence amassed in the probe shows “what collusion looks like.”

Still, Mr. Trump’s campaign highlighted the report’s findings.

“As this report proves — yet again — there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign,” said campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh. “The report does remind Americans that there was, however, political reliance on foreign assistance in 2016, since Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid for the bogus Steele dossier assembled by a foreign operative using Russian disinformation.”

Mr. Rubio seized on the findings related to the FBI’s handling of the Steele dossier.

“We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling,” he said in a statement. “And we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing.”

Mr. Warner called the level of contact between Trump officials and Russian operatives “breathtaking” and “a very real counterintelligence threat to our elections.”

“I encourage 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,” Mr. Warner said.

Paul Manafort

Konstantin Kilimnik, a Ukrainian businessman who once worked for Manafort, was identified in the Senate report as “a Russian intelligence officer.”

In the Mueller report, Mr. Kilimnik is said only to have “ties to Russian intelligence.” He has repeatedly disputed that allegation.

The committee said it had obtained some information that Mr. Kilimnik was connected to a Russian hack-and-leak operation targeting the 2016 election.

The senators said Manafort’s top-level campaign access and willingness to share information with Mr. Kilimnik represented “a grave counterintelligence threat,” the report said.

The committee said it was “unable to determine why” Manafort shared sensitive internal polling data and campaign strategy with Mr. Kilimnik or whether Mr. Kilimnik passed along that information.

After the election, Manafort continued to work with Mr. Kilminik and others to undermine evidence of Russian interference, the report said.

Manafort was sentenced to seven years in prison in 2018 on financial fraud charges arising from the Mueller probe. He was released from federal prison this year because of the coronavirus crisis.

Transition team

Russia took advantage of the inexperience among members of Mr. Trump’s transition team as well as their desire to roll back Obama-era policies to create “unofficial channels” through which it could connect to the incoming administration.

“The existence of a cadre of informal advisers to the transition team with varying levels of access to the president-elect and varying awareness of foreign affairs presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities,” the committee wrote in the report.

The lack of vetting by the transition team left it open to “influence and manipulation” to foreign intelligence services, the panel wrote.

WikiLeaks

Another key finding in the report is that WikiLeaks “likely knew” it was aiding Russian efforts to influence the election when it published hacked emails from the DNC and Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.

U.S. intelligence agencies previously raised questions about whether the anti-secrecy group and its founder, Julian Assange, were aware that they were helping Russian efforts.

The report also said there is strong evidence that Mr. Trump kept close tabs on WikiLeaks’ releases through longtime friend Roger Stone.

Stone was convicted last year of lying to Congress about his efforts to connect with WikiLeaks to learn more about its upcoming releases.

The finding raises questions about Mr. Trump’s written responses to the Mueller team in which he said he did not recall any conversations about WikiLeaks.

“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.

 

 

 

[Thebowflexbody]

democrats are corrupt and pathetic.

[212frawk]

 

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The finding raises questions about Mr. Trump’s written responses to the Mueller team in which he said he did not recall any conversations about WikiLeaks.

“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.

 

Fatass lied. end of story.  Cant get to the truth if R enablers allow him to lie and stonewall his way through this mess. 

Once he is out of office, the rest of the story will get written. 

 

 

 

[212frawk]

Campaign Manager: Felon

Top Strategist: Felon

Deputy Campaign Manager: Felon

National Security Advisor:  Felon

Campaign Aide: Felon

Campaign Advisor: Felon

So yea, pres brain worms is surrounded by felons.  And he is an unindicted felon, Individual-1.

Cant wait until his fat ass is on the street.

[Thebowflexbody]

3 minutes ago, 212frawk said:

Fatass lied. end of story.  Cant get to the truth if R enablers allow him to lie and stonewall his way through this mess. 

Once he is out of office, the rest of the story will get written. 

Fine.  See you in 2024.  

Or should that be January 2025?

[212frawk]

Just now, Thebowflexbody said:

Fine.  See you in 2024.  

At least you finally admit that you support a lying criminal.  Nice work jethro.  Now go polish up that honda.

[Thebowflexbody]

Just now, 212frawk said:

At least you finally admit that you support a lying criminal.  Nice work jethro.  Now go polish up that honda.

Oh not that.  Just that we can take up this stupid thing again after Trump leaves office in 2025.  That's all.  Don't put words in my mouth. 

[SackMan518]

‘Trump Was Right’: Explosive New FBI Texts Detail Internal Furor Over Handling Of ‘Crossfire Hurricane’ Investigation

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents tasked by fired former Director James Comey to take down Donald Trump during and after the 2016 election were so concerned about the agency’s potentially illegal behavior that they purchased liability insurance to protect themselves less than two weeks before Trump was inaugurated president, previously hidden FBI text messages show. The explosive new communications and internal FBI notes were disclosed in federal court filings today from Sidney Powell, the attorney who heads Michael Flynn’s legal defense team.

“[W]e all went and purchased professional liability insurance,” one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.

“Holy crap,” an agent responded. “All the analysts too?”

“Yep,” the first agent said. “All the folks at the Agency as well.”

“[C]an I ask who are the most likely litigators?” an agent responded. “[A]s far as potentially suing y’all[?]”

“[H]aha, who knows….I think [t]he concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going to do a piece,” the first agent said.

 

 

[HipKat]

@Meathead @Victor7 @LiterateStylish

Move to politics

[Nuke]

Well, let’s do it again. What the hell, we have plenty of tax money to waste.

[HipKat]

lol @Breitbart. Can we confirm, this with other more reputable sources?

BTW, the Durham Investigation is a complete joke and waste of resources and Tax Payer money

 

Sack will scour the depths of the right wing internet sites to find any crumb he can to try and say there was no Russia involvement in the 2016 election. It's almost funny to watch

[Meathead]

7 hours ago, HipKat said:

@Meathead @Victor7 @LiterateStylish

Move to politics

i cant until lit fixes whatever problem prevents me from moving stuff to the politics forum

[LiterateStylish]

2 hours ago, Meathead said:

i cant until lit fixes whatever problem prevents me from moving stuff to the politics forum

I can’t figure out why you can’t. You should be able to. I’ll try again.

[Meathead]

6 hours ago, LiterateStylish said:

I can’t figure out why you can’t. You should be able to. I’ll try again.

try demodding me and then remodding me

this sftw appears to be glitchy about setting flags.  you can see it in ignore. if youve got multiple users on ignore sometimes it just completely omits a category or two in what its going to ignore, without asking you. i had one user that had NO flags, meaning the ignore was completely useless. i had to unignore, then reignore to get the settings to be flagged

[HipKat]

8 hours ago, Meathead said:

try demodding me and then remodding me

this sftw appears to be glitchy about setting flags.  you can see it in ignore. if youve got multiple users on ignore sometimes it just completely omits a category or two in what its going to ignore, without asking you. i had one user that had NO flags, meaning the ignore was completely useless. i had to unignore, then reignore to get the settings to be flagged

Not to mention refreshing a page with posts by someone who's on your ignore list on that page shows the posts as if they weren't on ignore - which is how I keep seeing fucktard Blowman's stupid shit

[Thebowflexbody]

10 hours ago, HipKat said:

Not to mention refreshing a page with posts by someone who's on your ignore list on that page shows the posts as if they weren't on ignore - which is how I keep seeing fucktard Blowman's stupid shit

Dummy.