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"The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday completed its multi-year investigation into Russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election, issuing a bi-partisan report that found extensive contacts and connections between Russian officials and the Trump campaign. The panel's findings undercut several of President Donald Trump's most oft-repeated claims, including that Russia did engage in a comprehensive campaign to interfere in the presidential election and did so with the intention of helping him win.

While the report stopped short of declaring that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government, the panel uncovered a great deal of previously unknown communication between the Kremlin and Trump advisers, many of whom were open to receiving the assistance.

"No hoax about it. They wanted Russia's help. They got Russia's help," wrote former head of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics Walter Shaub.

https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1295757757388390403?s=20

The panel confirmed that Trump's campaign chairman Paul Manafort sought to give internal campaign data to Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik, saying Manafort posed a "grave counterintelligence threat" to the United States.

"The Committee found that Manafort's presence on the Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign," the report stated. "Taken as a whole, Manafort's high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik and associates of Oleg Deripaska, represented a grave counterintelligence threat."

The report also contradicted Republican politicians' dubious claims that Ukraine, not Russia, may have been responsible for meddling in the election.

"[D]uring the course of the investigation, the Committee identified no reliable evidence that the Ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. election," the report stated. Additionally, Kilimnik was identified as having "almost certainly helped arrange some of the first public messaging that Ukraine had interfered in the U.S. election."


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