Natasha Bertrand

Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand

@SirajAHashmi @DeAnna4Congress Holy shit — PolitiTweet.org

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NEWS: A top aide to Mike Pompeo has ordered senior State Dept officials to compile additional documents for Johnson/Grassley investigations into origins of FBI’s Russia probe and Joe Biden/Ukraine dealings, per internal State Dept memo we obtained. https://t.co/0VrdRw90WG — PolitiTweet.org

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Fun detail--Kilimnik apparently tweets under the name Petro Baranenko, @PBaranenko, per the report (h/t @kyledcheney) https://t.co/4SbpQdWIQ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: There have been no traditional NSC Principals Committee meetings—w/cabinet officials and Trump—or major joint press conferences about election security this year. Instead, much has been delegated to a little-known career IC official. My investigation: https://t.co/BVaFWH1kZ5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's my deep dive from January on how the Kremlin may have been laying the groundwork to blame Ukraine for 2016 election interference as early as 2015: https://t.co/mejxuyYnjZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kyledcheney: OBSTRUCTION: The Senate committee concluded that Donald Trump Jr. and Felix Sater may have obstructed their investigation… — PolitiTweet.org

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Per the report, after submitting that memo, Foresman met with Flynn. Foresman then met w/Russian banker Sergey Gorkov, who relayed Trump team's message to Putin about a desire for better relations. Recall Gorkov held a secret meeting w/Kushner in Dec 2016. https://t.co/ZOgRIZqzW6 https://t.co/lRg7OQwdeJ — PolitiTweet.org

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A memo written to Steve Bannon in December 2016 by Bob Foresman, a banker w/deep ties to Russia who is discussed in the Mueller report, "offered advice for structuring the National Security Council so that Russia was a main focus of the council." (741) https://t.co/ScYN8Vuvfj — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KenDilanianNBC: The Mueller report was not as clearly written as this Senate document, every word of which was signed off on by Republi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rgoodlaw: 2. Bipartisan Senate Intelligence report highlights Russian intelligence officer behind scenes of a Financial Times article… — PolitiTweet.org

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Pausing here because this guy needs a walk https://t.co/70iu1ysru3 — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm threading some of the major findings from the SSCI report here: https://t.co/yBgFrv2Nzp But this is... certainly news: — PolitiTweet.org

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SSCI says it "did not establish that the Russian government collected kompromat on Trump" or try to blackmail him (638) Separately, committee says "during the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization pursued a business deal in Russia." (407) https://t.co/tfcLpOuvXp — PolitiTweet.org

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.@MichaelCohen212 said that after he was indicted in SDNY, "he discussed a potential pardon for himself with Jay Sekulow ‘more than half a dozen times.’ Cohen further stated that he understood the pardon discussions had come from Trump through Sekulow.” (463) https://t.co/qO3YFYu8WA — PolitiTweet.org

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Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, of Trump Tower meeting fame, "has significant and concerning connections to Russian government and·intel officials, and has not been forthcoming about those relationships," the report alleges. Next 4 pages are redacted. (337) https://t.co/3YBpzscdMI — PolitiTweet.org

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Some details about the day of the Access Hollywood tape/Podesta emails release: Trump campaign team heard about the tape an hour before its release. Stone told Corsi to get Assange to "drop the Podesta emails immediately." WikiLeaks did so 30 min after tape published. (249) https://t.co/rKfDnJ511f — PolitiTweet.org

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Umm...why was Roger Stone drafting pro-Russia tweets for Trump in July 2016, as he was teasing more WikiLeaks dumps? "Many of the draft tweets ... mentioned a new peace deal with Putin, such as "I want a new detente with Russia under Putin." https://t.co/FIfpKXk694 — PolitiTweet.org

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WikiLeaks/Assange has long maintained Russia was not the source of the hacked Democratic materials. But the committee says it "found significant evidence to suggest that, in the summer of 2016, WikiLeaks was knowingly collaborating with Russian government officials.” (208) https://t.co/vC1kSbgkN0 — PolitiTweet.org

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"In August 2016, following the Campaign's tasking, Stone obtained information indicating that John Podesta would be a target of an upcoming release, prior to WikiLeaks releasing Podesta's emails on October 7. Stone then communicated this information to Trump..." (173) https://t.co/52vo4SeuEk — PolitiTweet.org

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The report confirms my reporting from December that the panel found scant if any evidence of Ukrainian interference. "The Committee identified no reliable evidence that the Ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 election," it says (pg 108) My story: https://t.co/jlEdc8tCYf — PolitiTweet.org

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The report says Kilimnik, who SSCI identified as a Russian intelligence officer, "almost certainly helped arrange some of the first public messaging that Ukraine had interfered in the U.S. election." (pg. 108) https://t.co/u6IvLvoUem — PolitiTweet.org

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...“Two pieces of information, however, raise the possibility of Manafort’s potential connection to the hack-and-leak operations." Rest is redacted. (Pg 89) https://t.co/rorBnogBzQ — PolitiTweet.org

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🚨 "Some evidence suggests Kilimnik may be connected to the GRU hack-and-leak operation related to the 2016 U.S. election. This assessment is based on a body of fragmentary information." (pg. 85) https://t.co/MVmZFkApQT — PolitiTweet.org

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Wow--SSCI goes further than Mueller did in describing Konstantin Kilimnik's relationship with Russian intelligence. "Kilimnik is a Russian intelligence officer," the report says. kilimnik was Manafort's longtime business associate. (pg 28) https://t.co/xpbhDechU1 — PolitiTweet.org

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"As this experience illustrated, White House intervention significantly hampered and prolonged the Committee's investigative effort," report says. "Most importantly, some witnesses were directed by the White House not to tum over potentially privileged information..." https://t.co/k8L1Q1layD — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a summary of a document about that Michael Flynn sent to KT McFarland in January 2017 that "originated with a close associate of a Kremlin insider," per the committee, and that the WH counsel's office wanted to withhold, citing executive privilege. https://t.co/dPGYQpTHVr — PolitiTweet.org

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JUST OUT: Volume 5 of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia report, focused on counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities. It's 966 pages long. https://t.co/xr6ZSx7U69 — PolitiTweet.org

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@AymanM @AymanMSNBC 🌟so thrilled for you!! 👏👏 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AymanM: When I was a young boy growing up in the MidEast I used to make home videos pretending I was a newscaster. Today, I hosted my f… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LEBassett: This is what Trump had to say about his brother who just died. https://t.co/HILP58aCtP — PolitiTweet.org