Saturday, May 09, 2020

The Report of the Special Council 

Link:  https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

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US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 

Russia Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election

Volume 1: Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure with Additional Views

Link: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume1.pdf

Volume 2: Russia's Use of Social Media with Additional Views

Link: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf

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US House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Preliminary Report March 2018:

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures, March 2018

Link: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180322/108023/HRPT-115-1_1-p1-U3.pdf

Russian Transcripts and Documents

Materials from the Committee's Investigation into Russian Active Measures

In 2017 and 2018, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) undertook an investigation into Russia’s interference campaign targeting the 2016 U.S. election. The Committee’s investigation came on the heels of an Intelligence Community assessment, which found:
“Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”
Democrats on the Committee affirmed that judgment, as did Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee. Throughout its investigation, the Committee uncovered significant evidence of Trump campaign efforts to seek, make use of, and cover-up Russian help in the 2016 presidential election. To date, two witnesses have been convicted and sentenced to prison terms for lying and attempting to obstruct the Committee’s investigation.
Ultimately, this pattern of misconduct and deceit continued when President Trump once again sought to coerce a foreign government into providing him illicit assistance with his reelection campaign, this time from Ukraine. For his efforts, President Trump was impeached in the House and became the first ever U.S. President to to receive bipartisan votes to convict in the Senate....