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bernad_law
Anledningen enligt Mensch är att man inkluderade Trump i ansökan i juni -16, och det var för mycket för FISA-domstolen med de bevis som förelåg då. Det skall till exceptionella bevis för att en FISA skall utfärdas mot en presidentkandidat; det rubbar ju hela det demokratiska systemet.
Men varför gjorde FBI inte om ansökan som exkluderar Trump? Eftersom Trump i så fall fortfarande kunde (indirekt) avlyssnas?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...75e_story.html
Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
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Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
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The notes appear to be written in deliberately vague terms, with Manafort and his longtime employee, Konstantin Kilimnik, never explicitly mentioning Deripaska by name. But investigators believe that key passages refer to Deripaska, who is referenced in some places by his initials, “OVD,” according to people familiar with the emails. One email uses “black caviar,” a Russian delicacy, in what investigators believe is a veiled reference to payments Manafort hoped to receive from former clients.
Black caviar
Det ser ganska illa ut skulle man nog säga, men å andra sidan
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In 2008, one of Manafort’s business partners, Rick Davis, arranged for Deripaska to meet then-presidential candidate John McCain at an international economic conference in Switzerland.
At the time, Davis was on leave from Manafort’s firm and was serving as McCain’s campaign manager. The meeting caused a stir, given McCain’s longtime criticism of Putin’s leadership.
The Post reported in 2008 that Deripaska jointly emailed Davis and Manafort after the meeting to thank them for setting it up. Davis did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
At the time of the McCain meeting, Manafort was working in Ukraine, advising a Russia-friendly political party. He ultimately helped to elect Viktor Yanukovych as president in 2010. In 2014, Yanukovych was ousted from office during street protests and fled to Moscow.
Vad skulle Mensch säga om hon blev paranoid redan då?
Tänk om Deripaska skulle möta Trump under valrörelsen. Då skulle våra kära foliehattar använda det som ett "tungt bevis".