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FBI investigators are examining whether Russians suggested to Kushner or other Trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow Russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to Trump, said the current U.S. law enforcement official The head of Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank, Sergei Nikolaevich Gorkov, a trained intelligence officer whom Putin appointed, met Kushner at Trump Tower in December. The bank is under U.S. sanctions and was implicated in a 2015 espionage case in which one of its New York executives pleaded guilty to spying and was jailed The bank said in a statement in March that it had met with Kushner along with other representatives of U.S. banks and business as part of preparing a new corporate strategy.

FBI investigators are examining whether Russians suggested to Kushner or other Trump aides that relaxing economic sanctions would allow Russian banks to offer financing to people with ties to Trump, said the current U.S. law enforcement official The head of Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank, Sergei Nikolaevich Gorkov, a trained intelligence officer whom Putin appointed, met Kushner at Trump Tower in December. The bank is under U.S. sanctions and was implicated in a 2015 espionage case in which one of its New York executives pleaded guilty to spying and was jailed The bank said in a statement in March that it had met with Kushner along with other representatives of U.S. banks and business as part of preparing a new corporate strategy.

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Jared Kushner and Russia

Kushner-Russia 11 llegal for private citizen to negotiate with ioreign government 21 Going to Embassy to communicate directy with Kremlin is ESPIONAGE 31 He omitted every single Russian contact from Security Clearance Each omission is a FELONY. 4) Public was told there was "NO CONTACT" Normally anyone who did this would NEVER GET CLEARANCE. EVER. Why did he do this? And why did he lie?

Kushner-Russia 11 llegal for private citizen to negotiate with ioreign government 21 Going to Embassy to communicate directy with Kremlin is ESPIONAGE 31 He omitted every single Russian contact from Security Clearance Each omission is a FELONY. 4) Public was told there was "NO CONTACT" Normally anyone who did this would NEVER GET CLEARANCE. EVER. Why did he do this? And why did he lie?

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The Storm is brewing

RUSSIA

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Roger Stone Jr. is very talkative lately

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr Follow So Ed Cox brought Carter Page to the notice of Corey Lewandowski who brought him into the campaign and later approved CP trip to a Russia RETWEETS LIKES 183 4:09 PM - 25 May 2017 64 183 273

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr Follow So Ed Cox brought Carter Page to the notice of Corey Lewandowski who brought him into the campaign and later approved CP trip to a Russia RETWEETS LIKES 183 4:09 PM - 25 May 2017 64 183 273

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Nixon's got a point

Whilel may have been a crook. I was néver a traitor or tool of the Russians date

Whilel may have been a crook. I was néver a traitor or tool of the Russians date

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Jared Kushner's secret Kremlin channels

The discussion of a secret channel adds to a broader pattern of efforts by Trump's closest advisors to obscure their contacts with Russian counterparts. Trump's first national security adviser, Flynn, was forced to resign after a series of false statements about his conversations with Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from matters related to the Russia investigation after it was revealed that he had failed to disclose his own meetings with Kislyak when asked during congressional testimony about any contact with Russians. Kushner's interactions with Russians - including Kislyak and an executive for a Russian bank under U.S. sanctions- were not acknowledged by the White House until they were exposed in media reports.

The discussion of a secret channel adds to a broader pattern of efforts by Trump's closest advisors to obscure their contacts with Russian counterparts. Trump's first national security adviser, Flynn, was forced to resign after a series of false statements about his conversations with Kislyak. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from matters related to the Russia investigation after it was revealed that he had failed to disclose his own meetings with Kislyak when asked during congressional testimony about any contact with Russians. Kushner's interactions with Russians - including Kislyak and an executive for a Russian bank under U.S. sanctions- were not acknowledged by the White House until they were exposed in media reports.

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Mike Rogers says Trump asked him to lie for him

In his town hall talk, Rogers reportedly admitted that President Trump asked him to discredit the FBI and James Comey, which the admiral flatly refused to do. As Rogers explained, he informed the commander in chief, "I know you won't like it, but I have to tell what I have seen"-a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump Rogers then added that such SIGINT exists, and it is damning. He stated, "There is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians." Although Rogers did not cite the specific intelligence he was referring to, agency officials with direct knowledge have informed me that DIRNSA was obviously referring to a series of SIGINT reports from 20I6 based on intercepts of communications between known Russian intelligence officials and key members of Trump's campaign, in which they discussed methods of damaging Hillary Clinton

In his town hall talk, Rogers reportedly admitted that President Trump asked him to discredit the FBI and James Comey, which the admiral flatly refused to do. As Rogers explained, he informed the commander in chief, "I know you won't like it, but I have to tell what I have seen"-a probable reference to specific intelligence establishing collusion between the Kremlin and Team Trump Rogers then added that such SIGINT exists, and it is damning. He stated, "There is no question that we [meaning NSA] have evidence of election involvement and questionable contacts with the Russians." Although Rogers did not cite the specific intelligence he was referring to, agency officials with direct knowledge have informed me that DIRNSA was obviously referring to a series of SIGINT reports from 20I6 based on intercepts of communications between known Russian intelligence officials and key members of Trump's campaign, in which they discussed methods of damaging Hillary Clinton

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Trump is paying Trey Gowdy to defend him

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They went to Jared's

THEY WENT TO JAREDS

THEY WENT TO JAREDS

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Russia turns on Trump

Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews Follow #Russia's state l V: "Trump's Impeachment is not just a question of the future, but a fact of the present. He is already de-facto impeached." OTO REUTERS RETWEETS LIKES キー: 237 223 At 6:22 AM-21 May 2017 22 t: 237 223

Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews Follow #Russia's state l V: "Trump's Impeachment is not just a question of the future, but a fact of the present. He is already de-facto impeached." OTO REUTERS RETWEETS LIKES キー: 237 223 At 6:22 AM-21 May 2017 22 t: 237 223

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House Intel Committee looks into Michael Caputo

Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents he may have that are related to the inquiry The House Intelligence Committee, which is examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, made its request in a letter on May 9. Mr. Caputo, who lives near Buffalo and spent six months on the Trump team, worked in Russia during the 1990s and came to know Kremlin officials. He also did work in the early 2ooos for Gazprom Media, a Russian conglomerate that supported President Vladimir V. Putin

Michael Caputo, who served as a communications adviser to the Trump campaign, has been asked by the House committee investigating Russian election meddling to submit to a voluntary interview and to provide any documents he may have that are related to the inquiry The House Intelligence Committee, which is examining possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials, made its request in a letter on May 9. Mr. Caputo, who lives near Buffalo and spent six months on the Trump team, worked in Russia during the 1990s and came to know Kremlin officials. He also did work in the early 2ooos for Gazprom Media, a Russian conglomerate that supported President Vladimir V. Putin

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Trump and his interference

1. Russia illegally intervened in the American election to help Trump 2. The Trump campaign is facing a counter-espionage investigation for possibly colluding with Russia during its attack on our democracy. 3. Trump then fired the director of the FBI because the president wanted to help quash the investigation. 4. Trump then bragged about the firing to Russian officials who were welcomed into the Oval Office at Vladimir Putin's behest, simultaneously acknowledging that White House rhetoric about the firing was a lie. I'm sure assorted partisan and pundits will try to put a positive spin on this, but I don't envy their task.

1. Russia illegally intervened in the American election to help Trump 2. The Trump campaign is facing a counter-espionage investigation for possibly colluding with Russia during its attack on our democracy. 3. Trump then fired the director of the FBI because the president wanted to help quash the investigation. 4. Trump then bragged about the firing to Russian officials who were welcomed into the Oval Office at Vladimir Putin's behest, simultaneously acknowledging that White House rhetoric about the firing was a lie. I'm sure assorted partisan and pundits will try to put a positive spin on this, but I don't envy their task.

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Russia wanted to influence Trump through Flynn and Manafort

WASHINGTON- American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence. The conversations focused on Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman at the time, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired general who was advising Mr. Trump, the officials said. Both men had indirect ties to Russian officials, who appeared confident that each could be used to help shape Mr. Trump's opinions on Russia.

WASHINGTON- American spies collected information last summer revealing that senior Russian intelligence and political officials were discussing how to exert influence over Donald J. Trump through his advisers, according to three current and former American officials familiar with the intelligence. The conversations focused on Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman at the time, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired general who was advising Mr. Trump, the officials said. Both men had indirect ties to Russian officials, who appeared confident that each could be used to help shape Mr. Trump's opinions on Russia.

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Russia's information warfare against the West

Modern Russian information warfare can be directly traced to Soviet "special propaganda", first taught on its own in 1942.[viij Along the way, the Soviets perfected the concept of reflexive control, essentially making opponents act as desired without them ever being aware of Moscow's hidden hand.[viij Eventually, Soviet military doctrine regarded victory as social revolution in enemy territories.[ix] Current events in Ukraine show this continuity from Bolshevik days, with adaptation along the way, of course, to benefit from technological and other developments over the past century. This is set to continue. Russia's military doctrine to 2020 favours a shift from destruction to influence; from eradication of opponents to their inner decay; from conventional battlegrounds to information, psychological and perception war; and from physical conflict to conflict in the human consciousness.[x])

Modern Russian information warfare can be directly traced to Soviet "special propaganda", first taught on its own in 1942.[viij Along the way, the Soviets perfected the concept of reflexive control, essentially making opponents act as desired without them ever being aware of Moscow's hidden hand.[viij Eventually, Soviet military doctrine regarded victory as social revolution in enemy territories.[ix] Current events in Ukraine show this continuity from Bolshevik days, with adaptation along the way, of course, to benefit from technological and other developments over the past century. This is set to continue. Russia's military doctrine to 2020 favours a shift from destruction to influence; from eradication of opponents to their inner decay; from conventional battlegrounds to information, psychological and perception war; and from physical conflict to conflict in the human consciousness.[x])

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Flynn wants to plead the 5th

The committee has two leading options at its disposal (other than doing nothing) to try to force Flynn to cough up the documents it has subpoenaed. As a useful Lawfare explainer notes, the dommittee can either try to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for criminal action, or it can try to get the Senate, under a provision in a 1978 ethics reform law, to enlist its counsel to bring a civil action to compel release of the documents. The basic principle here is that in order for congressional oversight to be effective, its subpoena power must have real teeth. The success of the first option relies on the willingness of the Justice Department to prosecute, and the latter option (a civil action brought by Senate counsel) is the more likely one. That would probably require votes first by the committee, and then by the full Senate, according to Sarah Binder, a congressional expert at George Washington University The important procedural step here has typically been that the Senate by statute is authorized to direct its chamber legal counsel to seek civil enforcement of its committee subpoenas," Binder told me this morning. "The full Senate would vote on a resolution directing its legal counsel to file suit in federal court to enforce a committee issued subpoena." This would raise some political complications and would pose a challenge to Republicans. As one legal expert explained to USA Today, the question then would be how hard the GOP-controlled Senate's counsel will fight in civil court which would have to decide whether the Flynn documents are protected under the Fifth Amendment -to try to get Flynn to release them. That would also raise questions about how seriously the GOP Senate caucus is taking its oversight role.

The committee has two leading options at its disposal (other than doing nothing) to try to force Flynn to cough up the documents it has subpoenaed. As a useful Lawfare explainer notes, the dommittee can either try to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney for criminal action, or it can try to get the Senate, under a provision in a 1978 ethics reform law, to enlist its counsel to bring a civil action to compel release of the documents. The basic principle here is that in order for congressional oversight to be effective, its subpoena power must have real teeth. The success of the first option relies on the willingness of the Justice Department to prosecute, and the latter option (a civil action brought by Senate counsel) is the more likely one. That would probably require votes first by the committee, and then by the full Senate, according to Sarah Binder, a congressional expert at George Washington University The important procedural step here has typically been that the Senate by statute is authorized to direct its chamber legal counsel to seek civil enforcement of its committee subpoenas," Binder told me this morning. "The full Senate would vote on a resolution directing its legal counsel to file suit in federal court to enforce a committee issued subpoena." This would raise some political complications and would pose a challenge to Republicans. As one legal expert explained to USA Today, the question then would be how hard the GOP-controlled Senate's counsel will fight in civil court which would have to decide whether the Flynn documents are protected under the Fifth Amendment -to try to get Flynn to release them. That would also raise questions about how seriously the GOP Senate caucus is taking its oversight role.

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Chart of Trump's interference

Trump's interference with the Justice Department's Russia investigation There are also investigations in the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee FBI DIRECTOR James Comey Asked Comey to drop investigation, according to reports Reports to.. Attorney General's Office Said Sessions shouldn't recuse himself ll▶ ATTORNEY GENERAL Jeff Sessions Fired ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL Sally Yates DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL Rod Rosenstein Appointed to investigate Reportedly tried to bar from investigating Kushner or Manafort using obscure rule SPECIAL COUNSEL Robert Mueller Asked them to publicly say there was no collusion, according to reports DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Dan Coats NSA DIRECTOR Michael S. Rogers

Trump's interference with the Justice Department's Russia investigation There are also investigations in the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee FBI DIRECTOR James Comey Asked Comey to drop investigation, according to reports Reports to.. Attorney General's Office Said Sessions shouldn't recuse himself ll▶ ATTORNEY GENERAL Jeff Sessions Fired ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL Sally Yates DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL Rod Rosenstein Appointed to investigate Reportedly tried to bar from investigating Kushner or Manafort using obscure rule SPECIAL COUNSEL Robert Mueller Asked them to publicly say there was no collusion, according to reports DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE Dan Coats NSA DIRECTOR Michael S. Rogers

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Timeline of Trump interfering with investigations

* Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, whose agency is investigating whether the president's 2016 campaign might have had contacts with Russian entities. After the White House initially said Comey's ouster was due to his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Trump told NBC's Lester Holt: "When I decided to [fire Comey], I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story." * * The New York Times reported that, on Feb. 14, Comey had dinner with Trump, where the president told the FBI director: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting [Michael] Flynn go," Trump said, per a memo Comey wrote about the meeting. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. *The New York Times also reported that Trump, meeting on May 10 with Russian officials in the Oval Office, gave this account for his firing of Comey, according to a document summarizing the meeting. "Ijust fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken And then this week, the Washington Post reported - later confirmed by NBC News - that Trump asked two top intelligence officials in March to say publicly that they saw no evidence the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election

* Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, whose agency is investigating whether the president's 2016 campaign might have had contacts with Russian entities. After the White House initially said Comey's ouster was due to his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, Trump told NBC's Lester Holt: "When I decided to [fire Comey], I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story." * * The New York Times reported that, on Feb. 14, Comey had dinner with Trump, where the president told the FBI director: "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting [Michael] Flynn go," Trump said, per a memo Comey wrote about the meeting. "He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go. *The New York Times also reported that Trump, meeting on May 10 with Russian officials in the Oval Office, gave this account for his firing of Comey, according to a document summarizing the meeting. "Ijust fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job," Trump said. "I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken And then this week, the Washington Post reported - later confirmed by NBC News - that Trump asked two top intelligence officials in March to say publicly that they saw no evidence the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russian effort to interfere in the 2016 election

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Russia bought ads on Facebook

Russia plays in every social media space. The intelligence officials have found that Moscow's agents bought ads on Facebook to target specific populations with propaganda. "They buy the ads, where it says sponsored by-they do that just as much as anybody else does," says the senior intelligence official. (A Facebook official says the company has no evidence of that occurring.) The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, has said he is looking into why, for example, four of the top five Google search results the day the U.S. released a report on the 2016 operation were links to Russia's TV propaganda arm, RT. (Google says it saw no meddling in this case.) Researchers at the University of Southern California, meanwhile, found that nearly 20% of political tweets in 2016 between Sept. 16 and Oct. 21 were generated by bots of unknown origin; investigators are trying to figure out how many were Russian.

Russia plays in every social media space. The intelligence officials have found that Moscow's agents bought ads on Facebook to target specific populations with propaganda. "They buy the ads, where it says sponsored by-they do that just as much as anybody else does," says the senior intelligence official. (A Facebook official says the company has no evidence of that occurring.) The ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mark Warner of Virginia, has said he is looking into why, for example, four of the top five Google search results the day the U.S. released a report on the 2016 operation were links to Russia's TV propaganda arm, RT. (Google says it saw no meddling in this case.) Researchers at the University of Southern California, meanwhile, found that nearly 20% of political tweets in 2016 between Sept. 16 and Oct. 21 were generated by bots of unknown origin; investigators are trying to figure out how many were Russian.

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Russia hit a milestone in their intelligence

For many Americans, Russian hacking remains a story about the 2016 election. But there is another story taking shape. Marrying a hundred years of expertise in influence operations to the new world of social media, Russia may finally have gained the ability it long sought but never fully achieved in the Cold War: to alter the course of events in the U.S. by manipulating public opinion. The vast openness and anonymity of social media has cleared a dangerous new route for antidemocratic forces. “Using these technologies, it is possible to undermine democratic government, and it's becoming easier every day," says Rand Waltzman of the Rand Corp., who ran a major Pentagon research program to understand the propaganda threats posed by social media technology Current and former officials at the FBI, at the CIA and in Congress now believe the 2016 Russian operation was just the most visible battle in an ongoing information war against global democracy. And they've become more vocal about their concern. "If there has ever been a clarion call for vigilance and action against a threat to the very foundation of our democratic political system, this episode is it," former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress on May 8

For many Americans, Russian hacking remains a story about the 2016 election. But there is another story taking shape. Marrying a hundred years of expertise in influence operations to the new world of social media, Russia may finally have gained the ability it long sought but never fully achieved in the Cold War: to alter the course of events in the U.S. by manipulating public opinion. The vast openness and anonymity of social media has cleared a dangerous new route for antidemocratic forces. “Using these technologies, it is possible to undermine democratic government, and it's becoming easier every day," says Rand Waltzman of the Rand Corp., who ran a major Pentagon research program to understand the propaganda threats posed by social media technology Current and former officials at the FBI, at the CIA and in Congress now believe the 2016 Russian operation was just the most visible battle in an ongoing information war against global democracy. And they've become more vocal about their concern. "If there has ever been a clarion call for vigilance and action against a threat to the very foundation of our democratic political system, this episode is it," former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before Congress on May 8

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