Senate Intelligence panel concludes Russia interfered in 2016 US election + Trump involved

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

The Senate intelligence committee has concluded that the Kremlin launched an aggressive effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential contest on behalf of Donald Trump. Senator Angus King committee member, stated on MSNBC US needs to implement report recommendations found on page 930 of report.

Senate panel concludes Russia interfered in 2016 US election

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The Senate panel described its report, totaling more than 1,300 pages, as “the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed.” The bipartisan investigation lasted almost three and a half years, much longer than the other probes.

The report purposely does not come to a final conclusion, as the other reports did, about whether there is enough evidence that Trump’s campaign coordinated or colluded with Russia to sway the election to him and away from Democrat Hillary Clinton, leaving its findings open to partisan interpretation.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-panel-finds-russia-interfered-2016-us-election-72442631?cid=clicksource_4380645_3_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed

CNN

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Among the key findings:

• That then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort was working with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian intelligence officer, and sought to share internal campaign information with Kilimnik. The committee says it obtained "some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected" to Russia's 2016 hacking operation and concludes Manafort's role on the campaign "represented a grave counterintelligence threat."
• That Trump and senior campaign officials sought to obtain advance information on WikiLeaks' email dumps through Roger Stone, and that Trump spoke to Stone about WikiLeaks, despite telling the special counsel in written answers he had "no recollections" that they had spoken about it.
• That information offered at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting "was part of a broader influence operation" from the Russian government, though there's no evidence Trump campaign members knew of it. Two of the Russians who met with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Manafort had "significant connections" to the Russian government, including Russian intelligence, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya's ties were "far more extensive and concerning than what had been publicly known."
• That Russian-government actors continued until at least January 2020 to spread disinformation about Russia's election interference, and that Manafort and Kilimnik both sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, and not Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
• That Russia took advantage of the Trump transition team's inexperience and opposition to Obama administration policies "to pursue unofficial channels," and it's likely that Russian intelligence services and others acting on the Kremlin's behalf exploited the Transition's shortcomings for Russia's advantage.
• That the FBI may have been victim to Russian disinformation coming through intelligence sources such as the Trump dossier author Christopher Steele.
• And that campaigns, political leaders and other influential Americans must be even more diligent in the future not to fall victim to Russian interference, given the extent of Russia's efforts and successes to reach campaign operatives in 2016.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/18/politics/senate-intelligence-report-russia-election-interference-efforts/index.html

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

[Daisy4RN]

Once again, no evidence of wrong doing by Trump....

"The committee’s investigation into Russia meddling went on for more than two years, with senators on the panel having the chance to interview more than 200 people."

"We have no factual evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia," Burr said last year."

"Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller last year also concluded his yearslong investigation into whether Trump campaign associates colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. Mueller found no evidence of criminal coordination or conspiracy"

....But plenty of FBI wrong doing in the never ending quest to bash Trump and/or oust him from office...

"The FBI used the dossier in a FISA application and renewals, and advocated for it to be included in the Intelligence Community Assessment before taking the necessary steps to validate assumptions about Steele’s credibility,” the committee found"

As Americans we should all be worried that these elites (Politicians, CIA,FBI etc) have used and abused their positions within our system to try to collude with each other in an attempt to change election results and then wreak havoc after said election bc their guy didn't win. Then throw everyone associated with Trump in jail for even minor infractions while they skip away scott free for even worse crimes. This is unAmerican!!

We need fair elections indeed!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-intel-fbi-steele-dossier-russia-investigation-report

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Trump's involvement IS THERE if you read the report. Senate Intels work is still ongoing, more to come out in future.

Intel Committee Recommendations start on pg. 931

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Pg. 931

The Committee's recommendations, outlined below, present a variety of paths through which Congress, the executive branch, and private entities and individuals can and should begin to respond to these threats, both jointly and independently. These recommendations, however, do not mark the end of the Committee's work in this space, which requires ongoing vigilance by the United States government and further consideration of legislative and policy responses. To that end, the Committee will continue to evaluate and consider the results of this investigation as part of its ongoing oversight and legislative responsibilities and its efforts to understand and address malign foreign interference target....

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Pg. 934

Campaigns should notify FBI of all foreign offers of assistance, ·and all staff should be made aware of this expectation. In order to not encourage, or amplify, foreign influence efforts, campaigns should reject the use of foreign origin material, especially if it has potentially been obtained though the violation of U.S. law

Protect Campaigns from Foreign Influence Efforts

As part of its counterintelligence mission, FBI should offer defensive briefings to all presidential campaigns, including during the primaries, for both candidates and staff. FBI should provide detailed briefings as specific issues arise. When nominees are official, FBI should undertake a renewed effort to educate campaigns-from leadership to schedulers-about the avenues of influence adversaries use.

ABC News June 2019 Interview with George Stephanopoulos

Trump says he may not alert FBI if info is offered by foreigners on 2020 candidates

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2 minutes ago, NRSKarenRN said:

Trump's involvement IS THERE if you read the report. Senate Intels work is still ongoing, more to come out in future.

Is this your opinion? Or does the report actually state this?

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Reading and copying from the Senate Intel report--- just started reading from section Sen. King talked about on TV and posting

Pg.943

ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS HEINRICH, FEINSTEIN, WYDEN, HARRIS, AND BENNET

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Pg.943

The Trump Campaign's Cooperation with Russia

The Committee's bipartisan Report unambiguously shows that members of the Trump Campaign cooperated _with Russian efforts to get Trump elected. It recounts efforts by Trump and his team to obtain dirt on their opponent from operatives acting on behalf of the Russian government. It reveals the extraordinary lengths by which Trump and his associates actively_sought to enable the Russian interference operation by amplifying its electoral impact and rewarding its perpetrators - even after being warned of its Russian origins. And it presents, for the first time, concerning evidence that the head of the Trump Campaign was directly connected to the Russian meddling through his communications with an individual found to be a Russian Intelligence officer.

(U) These are stubborn facts that cannot be ignored. They build on the Committee's bipartisan findings in Volume 2 and Volume 4 that show an extensive Kremlin-directed effort to covertly help candidate Trump in 2016, and they speak to a willingness by a major party candidate and his associates, in the face of a foreign adversary's assault on the political integrity of the United States, to welcome that foreign threat in exchange for advancing their own self-interest.

P9. 944

The Committee's bipartisan Report found that Russia's goal in its unprecedented hack-and-leak operation against the United States in 2016, among other motives, was to assist the Trump Campaign. Candidate Trump and his Campaign responded to that threat by embracing, encouraging, and exploiting the Russian effort. Trump solicited inside information in advance of WikiLeaks's expected releases of stolen information, even after public reports widely attributed the activity to Russia, so as to maximize his electoral benefit. The Campaign crafted a strategy around these anticipated releases to amplify the dissemination and promotion of the stolen documents. Even after the US. government fornially announced the hack-and-leak campaign as a Russian government effort, Trump's embrace of the stolen documents and his efforts to minimize the attribution to Russia only continued. The Committee's Report clearly shows that Trump and his Campaign were not mere bystanders in this attack - they were active participants. They coordinated their activities with the releases of the hacked Russian data, magnified the effects of a known Russian campaign, and welcomed the mutual benefit from the Russian activity....

...Trump's Russia-friendly statements and policies during the Campaign did not occur in isolation. The Committee's bipartisan Report shows that, during the campaign, Donald ' Trump and the Trump Organization were pursuing a business deal in Russia. This is a topic about which the Campaign and its associates misled the public and Congress.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Pg. 949 (I added bold below)

ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATOR WYDEN

(U) The fifth and final volume of the Committee's report_ includes a wealth of extremely.-troubling new revelations about the counterintelligence threat posed by Donald Trump and his campaign. Much of the new information in this report, however, remains needlessly classified. That is unfortunate, not only because the counterintelligence concerns that surround Donald Trump constitute an ongoing threat to national security, but because this report includes redacted information that is directly relevant to Russia's interference in the 2020 election.

(U) As the report details, the Committee was hindered in numerous ways by the subjects of its investigation. In other respects, however, the impediments to the investigation were self-inflicted. First, while the Committee investigated interactions between Donald Trump and particular Russians and identified deeply concerning financial links, it did not seek to answer key questions about Donald Trump's finances that relate directly to counterintelligence. In short, the Committee did not follow the money.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

The report showed extensive evidence of contacts between Trump campaign advisers and people tied to the Kremlin — including a longstanding associate of the onetime Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, whom the report identifies as a “Russian intelligence officer.”

From the report: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/senate-intelligence-committee-russian-interference/8cf58e574d235164/full.pdf

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

[Daisy4RN]

It looks to me that there is no evidence that Trump colluded, coorordinated, nor conspired, as per the report

1 hour ago, Daisy4RN said:

"We have no factual evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia," Burr said last year"

1 hour ago, Daisy4RN said:

"The FBI used the dossier in a FISA application and renewals, and advocated for it to be included in the Intelligence Community Assessment before taking the necessary steps to validate assumptions about Steele’s credibility,” the committee found"

1 hour ago, Daisy4RN said:

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller last year also concluded his yearslong investigation into whether Trump campaign associates colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. Mueller found no evidence of criminal coordination, or conspiracy "

What is clear (and has been for a long time) is that the FBI used a phony bologna dossier (paid for by Clinton) and passed off by a judge to start the millions of dollars spent in 3 seperate investigations (which also caught many other never -trump dem FBI, CIA, and politicians in either flat out lies, or just repeating the same propaganda lies without their own validation) to prove the same exact thing, no evidence on Trump. But of course that didn't stop the corrupt Dems from impeaching Trump anyway. Sad and pathetic behavior for the Democratic party which of course was headed at the start by Obama/Biden.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

Facts matter....

Pg. 464 Papadopoulos

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(U) The Committee found that the Trump Campaign's rush to name and assemble the foreign policy team-without thorough vetting-resulted in their recruitment of inexperienced advisors, over whom they exerted little control. Ultimately, the foreign policy team exposed the Trump Campaign to significant counterintelligence vulnerabilities.

(U) Papadopoulos used multiple avenues to pursue a face-to-face meeting between Trump and President Putin. Papadopoulos believed that he was operating with the approval-or at least not the explicit disapproval-of senior Campaign leadership, who he kept apprised of his efforts. Papadopoulos never successfully scheduled a meeting between Putin and Trump.

Pg. 527 Carter Page -- FBI interest from 2015, Prior to 2016 Steele dossier

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Prior to joining the Ti:ump Campaign, Page communicated with, met, and provided private business information to Russian SVR officers in New York, whom the FBI believed were acting in a manner consistent with attempts to recruit Page. Page later was referred to as "Male-1" in the complaint filed against three SVR officers in January 2015 in federal court in the Southern District of New York. Page later publicly identified himself as "Male-1" on several occasions, including to Russian officials in New York at the United Nations General Assembly.

Factcheck,org

Dossier Not What ‘Started All of This’

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In an interview about the special counsel’s report, Rep. John Ratcliffe said that what “started all of this” was “a fake, phony dossier.” But a House Republican intelligence committee memo said it was information about a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser that sparked the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference in the election.

Competing memos from the Republicans and the Democrats on the House intelligence committee both say that information about George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, had prompted the FBI investigation in July 2016.

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/dossier-not-what-started-all-of-this/

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]