Senate Democrat Asks Feds To Declassify Documents On Paul Manafort And Russia

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Source: Huff Post

Mar 27, 2024, 02:57 PM EDT


Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to declassify information on the investigation of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who served federal prison time as a result of Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia — and who’s now reportedly in talks to work with Trump again.

Trump, who pardoned Manafort in 2020, sparing him the remaining years of his sentence, is pulling for the GOP operative to get back into politics, according to the New York Times and Washington Post. Both reported last week that Manafort was in talks to help out with this year’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Manafort, 74, served prison time for tax and bank fraud convictions, the result of his hiding money he made through unregistered lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. He was released to home confinement due to coronavirus risks in 2020, shortly before Trump pardoned him in late 2020. Trump had praised Manafort for initially refusing to “break” and cooperate with investigators. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Manafort also privately shared Trump campaign polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik, who investigators found had ties to Russian intelligence.

A bipartisan report from a Senate select committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, published in 2020, found “that Manafort’s presence on the [2016] Campaign and proximity to Trump created opportunities for Russian intelligence services to exert influence over, and acquire confidential information on, the Trump Campaign.” “Taken as a whole, Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services ... represented a grave counterintelligence threat,” the report said.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wyden-paul-manafort-declassify-avril-haines_n_66046028e4b0ddb37d3b7adc

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Link to Sen. Ron Wyden's letter (PDF) - https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/final_signed_wyden_letter_to_dni_on_2016_election_report_declassification.pdf

[Kingofalldems]

1. Kick and rec.

[marble falls]

2. Didn't they find those in TFG's bathroom?

[dutch777]

3. Love to see that. He probably had his electronic comms swept up by NSA which they don't want revealed....

...as how far and how good NSA is at that.

[Boomerproud]

4. This will be the only and last time we hear of this.

I'm dying to be proven wrong.

[PortTack]

5. And WHY shouldn't they be declassified??!! The guy is a crook, russia is our enemy!

[Red Mountain]

8. Whenever you run across a Republican that expresses doubt that Russia is all that bad.....

.....or even our enemy always ask how many nuclear weapons they have pointed at us.

Ask them why they think that is.

[Bev54]

6. Absolutely, as soon as he was announced that he could well be involved once again

with Trump campaign, that information MUST be released to the public.

[Botany]

7. Manafort's polling data was more data analytics

.... or what could be turned into data analytics
which showed the Russians exactly where and
by how much they needed to rat fuck our 2016
our elections.

America needs to see what happened and what Americans worked with Russia to steal
our democracy.

[Harker]

9. Russia, Russia, Russia. n/t

[BlueKota]

10. Hope the White House agrees to this

[Unknown Beatle]

11. Turn this around

and imagine if it was a Russian working closely with Putin. The FSB found out that he had ties with American operatives trying to undermine Russian elections.

That person would have been defenestrated in no time flat.

I'm not saying Manafort should suffer the same or similar consequences, but he shouldn't be walking around free trying to fuck things up again.

[HandmaidsTaleUntold]

12. Defenestration Couldnt Come Too Soon

[2naSalit]

13. The only...

Air he is fit to breathe is air within the walls of a SUPERMAX.