Posted on 08/18/2020 10:08:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort, the WikiLeaks website and others to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign, a Senate intelligence panel report said on Tuesday.
WikiLeaks played a key role in Russia’s effort to assist Republican Trump against Democrat Hillary Clinton and likely knew it was helping Russian intelligence, said the report, which is likely to be the most definitive public account of the 2016 election controversy.
The report found President Vladimir Putin personally directed the Russian efforts to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Clinton.
The panel, formally called the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also alleged Manafort collaborated with Russians, including oligarch Oleg Deripaska and an alleged Russian intelligence operative, Konstantin Kilimnik, before during and after the election.
The panel found Manafort’s role and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence, saying his “high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services... represented a grave counterintelligence threat.”
It was not clear what effect, if any, the report might have on the current U.S. presidential campaign in which Trump faces Democrat Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 U.S. election.
Opinion polls show former vice president Biden has built an expansive lead in nearly every battleground state that Trump won narrowly in 2016, as the Republican’s approval numbers tumble amid the coronavirus pandemic.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
Well lets not forget that the released emails, showed that Hillary lied to the American people and numerous government agencies and courts. She broke government rules and laws. She ran a pay to play state department. She also got the questions before the debates. If it was Putin, all he did was make Hillary transparent to the American people. The press tried to explain away Hillary’s crimes even after they were displayed for all to see. Putin should get a Pulitzer. Hillary should get the book thrown at her. And how exactly did the Russians get Comey to go in front of the press to list all her crimes and then wave them away as unimportant?
He knew a guy who knew a guy.....
Partisan Media Shills update.
Horse-do-do.
The best defense is a “good” offense. And when you don’t have a good offense...you make up things and LIE.
How stupid they must think we are.
Bovine Scatology
Is this the Senate report prepared by
MARK WARNER, THE VIRGINIAN DEMOCRAT WHO IS SO DIRTY HE SHOULD MOVE TO SAN FRANCISCO...THAT MARK WARNER???
Yeh work against the candidate who sold you 20% of our uranium. That makes so much sense.
This report IS UTTERLY FALSE Hannity has posted the TRUE report on his website this is UTTER BS!!!
Do they think that anyone besides rabid leftists still fall for this garbage?
Thought Rubio said there was NOTHING to see...........why the different versions?
“I smell Romney.”
Smell Richard Burr, GOP NC. He insisted on “bipartisanship” which meant Dem Senator Mark Warner ran the committee. Burr’s insider stock trading was exposed early this year and he went silent, stepping down from the committee chair. McConnell named Marco Rubio to replace Burr. No doubt Rubio is continue to let Mark Warner cover for the Democrats, set the agenda, and write the reports.
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Republicans
Richard Burr North Carolina
James Risch Idaho
Susan Collins Maine
Roy Blunt Missouri
Tom Cotton Arkansas
John Cornyn Texas
Ben Sasse Nebraska
Democrats
Dianne Feinstein California
Ron Wyden Oregon
Martin Heinrich New Mexico
Angus King Maine
Kamala Harris California
Michael Bennet Colorado
You mean Wikileaks revealed what a crook Hillary was? Why does it matter if the Russians were the source of the information. So silly.
bump
Indication they are getting desperate?
The author of this piece was deported from Britain in 1977 for helping ex-CIA-agent-turned-Soviet-spy Philip Agee conduct espionage operations against the UK. He has since taken up with the far-left wing of the U.S. intelligence community, including helping disseminate the Russiagate hoax.
He has been a close collaborator of Michael Isikoff in that respect—very close to the Fusion GPS propaganda network.
Many Republicans, still left after the early retirement of same in 2018, are showing their guilt.
Hosenball was deported from England, along with CIA turncoat/traitor/admitted DGI-KGB asset, Phillip Agee, on “national security grounds” (i.e. they were exposing real and imaged British intel ops and agents to the Soviets and Cubans.
Hosenball has floated around the magazine world including working with Michael Isikoff (Russiagate, among other things) at Newsweek, possibly the Marxist “The Nation”, Time and Yahoo, amongst other leftist, anti-US intelligence publications.
Nothing he writes is for the good of the Free World, period. Take anything he writes with a gain of poisoned salt.
Thank you for pointing that out.
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