BREAKING: House Intel Russian investigation TRANSCRIPTS released!

[Roland99]

https://intelligence.house.gov/russiainvestigation/


ALL of these interviews are links:

Correspondence
Letter from HPSCI to Acting Director of Intelligence Richard Grenell (May 7, 2020)
Correspondence between HPSCI and Office of Director of National Intelligence and White House (November 2018 - May 2020)
Interview Transcripts
Interview Transcript of Rinat Akhmetshin (November 13, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Stephen Bannon (January 16, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Stephen Bannon (February 15, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Andrew Brown (August 30, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Michael Caputo (July 14, 2017)
Interview Transcript of John Carlin (July 27, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Thomas Catan (October 18, 2017)
Interview Transcript of James Clapper (July 17, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Samuel Clovis (December 12, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Dan Coats (June 22, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Michael Cohen (October 24, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Rick Dearborn (January 17, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Diana Denman (December 5, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Marc Elias (December 13, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Boris Ephsteyn (September 28, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Evelyn Farkas (June 26, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Peter Fritsch (October 18, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Michael Goldfarb (December 12, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Rob Goldstone (December 18, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Jeffrey Gordon (July 26, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Rhona Graff (December 22, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Shawn Henry (December 5, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Hope Hicks (February 27, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Ike Kaveladze (November 2, 2017)
Interview Transcript of David Kramer (December 19, 2017)
Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI (December 23, 2017)
Interview Transcript of David Kramer (January 10, 2018)
Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI (January 5, 2018)
Letter from Counsel to David Kramer to HPSCI (January 10, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Jared Kushner (July 25, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Corey Lewandowski (January 17, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Corey Lewandowski (March 8, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Loretta Lynch (October 20, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Simona Mangiante (July 18, 2018)
Interview Transcript of Andrew McCabe (December 19, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Mary McCord (November 1, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Alexander Nix (December 14, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Carter Page (November 2, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Brad Parscale (October 24, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Walid Phares (December 8, 2017)
Interview Transcript of John Podesta (June 27, 2017)
Interview Transcript of John Podesta (December 4, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Samantha Power (October 13, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Erik Prince (November 30, 2017)
Letter from HPSCI to Department of Justice (April 30, 2019)
Interview Transcript of Benjamin Rhodes (October 25, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Susan Rice (September 8, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Jonathan Saffron (October 12, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Anatoli Samochornov (November 28, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Felix Sater (December 20, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Keith Schiller (November 7, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Jefferson Sessions (November 30, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Roger J. Stone, Jr. (September 26, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Jake Sullivan (December 21, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Michael Sussman (December 18, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Matthew Tait (October 6, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Yared Tamene Wolde-Yohannes (August 30, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Donald Trump, Jr. (December 6, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Witness Name Redacted (December 20, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Sally Yates (November 3, 2017)
Interview Transcript of Christopher Wylie (April 25, 2018)
Report
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - Democratic Minority Views (March 26, 2018)
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - Republican Report on Russian Active Measures (March 22, 2018)

[Roland99]

1. Statement from Rep Adam Schiff

After releasing the transcripts, Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated:

“From 2017 to 2018, the House Intelligence Committee conducted an investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Despite the many barriers put in our way by the then-Republican Majority, and attempts by some key witnesses to lie to us and obstruct our investigation, the transcripts that we are releasing today show precisely what Special Counsel Robert Mueller also revealed: That the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump himself, invited illicit Russian help, made full use of that help, and then lied and obstructed the investigations in order to cover up this misconduct.

Unfortunately, the President’s misconduct did not end with his election in 2016 or his attempts to cover up that effort. Rather, in the course of his presidency, he continued to seek illicit foreign help in his campaign by coercing another nation, Ukraine, to smear his opponent. After making use of Russia’s help with his first presidential campaign, President Trump pressed the Ukrainian president to help him in 2020 by withholding critical military aid to that country and a coveted head of state meeting.

These acts ultimately led to the President’s impeachment in the House of Representatives and the first bipartisan vote in the Senate in our history in support of a conviction of a President of the United States. The President’s efforts to make use of the help of a foreign power to win an election, and then to extort yet another foreign power to try to win again, represent a grave threat to the health of our democracy now and in the future.

The transcripts released today richly detail evidence of the Trump campaign’s efforts to invite, make use of, and cover up Russia’s help in the 2016 presidential election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified in his report similar, and even more extensive, evidence of improper links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government. A bipartisan Senate investigation also found that Russia sought to help the candidacy of Donald Trump in 2016.

While Special Counsel Mueller found insufficient evidence to prove the crime of criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt, he refused to draw any conclusion on the issue of collusion — contrary to false representations made by Attorney General Bill Barr and others. There is ample evidence of the corrupt interactions between the Trump campaign and Russia, both direct and circumstantial, in the record:

In June of 2016, a Russian delegation offered dirt on Donald Trump’s rival—presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—to the highest levels of the Trump campaign, and did so in writing. Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., accepted that offer, and then set up a secret meeting between the Russian delegation, himself, Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to discuss that illicit help. When news of the meeting was about to break, Trump and his son drafted a false statement for the press together in order to cover up the true purpose of the meeting. This written offer of illegal help by the Russians and its acceptance by the President’s campaign, and the secret meeting that followed, provide some of the most damning and direct evidence of the President’s to make use of Russia’s assistance in the election.

Throughout the summer of 2016, the Trump campaign and candidate Trump himself repeatedly sought damaging information on Clinton from Russia. In July of 2016, Trump publicly called on Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, and – as the Special Counsel found – that night, Russian military intelligence officers did precisely that. Our transcripts show that numerous individuals affiliated with or working for the Trump campaign were in communication with individuals offering help to set up private backchannels with the Russian government.

Multiple witnesses sought to hide and cover up illicit activity related to Russia during the presidential campaign. One-time campaign advisor and close confidant to Trump, Roger Stone, has been sentenced to prison for lying to the Committee about his advanced knowledge of impending WikiLeaks releases of Clinton campaign information. Former personal attorney to Trump, Michael Cohen, was imprisoned in part on charges that he lied to the Committee about Trump’s role in arranging a lucrative business deal in Russia during the course of his campaign and early presidency. The President’s pursuit of Trump Tower Moscow — potentially the most lucrative deal of his life — while lying to the American people about his business interests in Russia, provided the most serious counterintelligence risk to the United States.

Another associate of Trump, Erik Prince, misled our Committee about his efforts to take part in a secret backchannel with a senior Russian government official while he was unofficially supporting the Trump campaign.

And the transcripts also show that during the transition period in late 2016, the incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn undertook efforts to undermine U.S. sanctions on Russia imposed by the previous administration over Russia’s interference in the election on Trump’s behalf. Flynn would later lie to the FBI about these efforts, and the President would try to pressure then-FBI Director Comey to shut down any investigation into Flynn. It would take the firing of then Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the later appointment of an unscrupulous Attorney General, Bill Barr, for the President to achieve his aim of seeking dismissal of the case against Flynn, and only after Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI.

Despite taking part in this investigation and hearing these facts first-hand, the transcripts reveal how House Republicans used witness interviews not to gain the facts, but to press President Trump’s false narrative of ‘no collusion, no obstruction.’ It would be a pattern they would follow throughout the Russia investigation and into the President’s subsequent Ukraine misconduct. To that end, House Republicans sought to use the Committee’s Russia investigation to undermine the Intelligence Community’s assessment that Russia sought to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. That assessment has been affirmed by this Committee’s Democrats, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, and Special Counsel Mueller.

These transcripts should have been released long before now, but the White House held up their release to the public by refusing to allow the Intelligence Community to make redactions on the basis of classified information, rather than White House political interests. Only now, and during a deadly pandemic, has the President released his hold on this damning information and evidence.

Like the Ukraine investigation that would follow it, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s effort to seek and utilize Russian help in 2016 and to obstruct justice, reveal a President who believes that he is above the law. But we are a country where the truth still matters and where right still matters. Our investigation into the Trump campaign, and the evidence we uncovered despite formidable obstruction, affirms that.”

[Roland99]

4. Twitter accounts to follow for key passage updates

https://twitter.com/Olivia_Beavers

https://mobile.twitter.com/kyledcheney

https://mobile.twitter.com/karolcummins

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBuchman_CNS

https://mobile.twitter.com/KlasfeldReports

[Roland99]

9. One example

Link to tweet

The
@FreeBeacon
hired FUSION GPS to research TRUMP because he was an "unknown…quantity," @thegoldfarb
testified, adding he was familiar with GLENN SIMPSON partly from his research for the hedge fund of GOP mega-donor (& @FreeBeacon
funder) PAUL SINGER.

Singer's philanthropic activities include financial support for LGBTQ rights.[4][7][8] He has provided funding to the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research,[9] is a strong opponent of raising taxes for the wealthiest 1% of taxpayers and opposes aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act.[9] Singer is active in Republican Party politics and Singer and others affiliated with Elliott Management are collectively "the top source of contributions" to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.[10]

...

Singer is an active participant in Republican Party politics.[78] According to The New York Times, he supports "like-minded candidates who often share his distaste for what they view as governmental over-meddling in the financial industry."[79] Singer has contributed more than $1 million to the political efforts of the Koch brothers.[80][81] In 2014, Singer led a group of major Republican donors to form the American Opportunity Alliance, a group that brings together wealthy Republican donors who share Singer's support for LGBTQ rights, immigration reform and Israel.[82] During the 2016 Presidential election campaign Singer supported Marco Rubio and donated a million dollars in March to the Our Principles PAC, a PAC attempting to derail Donald Trump's election campaign.[83][84][85][86] He also started the American Unity PAC.[87] He supported Trump's inaugural committee with $1 million together with 25 other billionaires.[88]

Singer was a major contributor to George W. Bush's presidential campaigns.[7][89] On March 14, 2008, Singer hosted a Republican National Committee luncheon in his home for 70 guests that raised $1.4 million for Bush.[90][91][92] Bush appointed Singer to serve on the Honorary Delegation to accompany him to Jerusalem for the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel in May 2008.[93]

In 2007 Singer was one of Rudolph Giuliani's most important fundraisers in Giuliani's bid for the Republican presidential nomination.[7][94] In 2007, Singer led a financial industry fund-raising effort for Giuliani, first as regional finance chair and later as senior policy adviser.[95][96] Singer lent Giuliani his private jet.[96][97] That same year, Singer at $175,000 was the sole contributor to a campaign to support a petition drive for a proposed California initiative to apportion the state's 55 electoral votes by congressional district. At least 19 of the state's 53 congressional districts were expected to vote for a GOP presidential candidate, enough to change the national results in a close election.[94][98]

[Roland99]

10. Wolff's book, Fire and Fury, led to questions re: money laundering

Link to tweet

Makes me wonder if anyone had read Seth Abramson’s Proof or Collusion

Wolff’s book was nothing but gossip compared to Abramson’s

[dewsgirl]

17. Not by any stretch. It totally sucks that he is away at the

moment, I would love Seth Abramson's breakdown of the transcripts.

[Martin Eden]

47. Adam Schiff's statement

Thank you for that. He really knows how to lay out the facts and make the case.

[empedocles]

2. 'The Process' rolls on

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[2naSalit]

5. I think the trigger has been pulled.

[machoneman]

21. Did Schiff release this today due to the Flynn fiasco where the prosecutor resigned....

from the case just as the DOJ dropped all charges and asked the judge to do the same?

This well-documented series of facts was obviously long in the making. I find the timing very interesting.

[sunonmars]

24. I think Schiff and Pelosi have just went fuck them all and dumped them out there.

[triron]

6. Sickening to me that this traitor got away with all this.

Our nation was fucked before covid-19.

[Mike 03]

7. A treasure trove.

For anybody who might be wondering, this witness:

Interview Transcript of Witness Name Redacted (December 20, 2017)

is some kind of special agent stationed in Russia testifying about Chris Steele and the Steele Dossier but also Russian organized crime.

Honestly, this is a huge amount of material. It's going to hard to get a grasp on all of it, especially with so much constant breaking news and a pandemic happening.

[Volaris]

36. Yeah, but the silver lining is that peeps have a lot of extra time to dig into it...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Bound to be some investigative reporters itching to do so, too.

[BComplex]

53. You KNOW Rachel Maddow has already started going through this.

I look for her to start on her reporting of it next week.

[Leghorn21]

8. K&R

[RVN VET71]

48. Magnitsky's murder by Putin produced sanctions

against Russia which retaliated by banning all adoption of unwanted Russian babies by Americans. That is the "adoption" bullshit Donnie Junior said was the topic of discussion in his pad in Trump Tower with the former KGB lawyer. She wanted the sanctions dropped and Donnie wanted to see how Daddy might be able to accommodate her. Trump/Flynn, of course, wanted those sanctions dropped, to begin with. But this "adoption" thing provided cover for the business opportunities (read: "money&quot they were really after.

Always irritated the f--k out of me the way the media viewed this scenario as somehow humane, as a way to help American couples who wanted to adopt. Bullshit. It was a means of re-opening Russia to Trump and his cronies business by trading off much-deserved sanctions for profit.

Of course, the subject of dealing dirt for Trump's insectine campaigners to use in the election was also an issue up for discussion then, but first let's see if we can work out a way to relieve Daddy Putin of the stress of those awful sanctions.

[dem4decades]

11. Sorry to say but I need the Cliff notes.

[Roland99]

12. I've posted some good twitter accounts to follow in post 4

[ffr]

18. Yep. See Roland's post

linked here, in case it's too much trouble to scroll up.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213405434#post1

[Mr.Bill]

13. If it's redacted, then like the Mueller report

it is inconclusive.

[Roland99]

19. Very few. Very few redactions in the Erik Prince transcript

[ffr]

14. K&R - But it's not a Friday.

[progressoid]

15. Sadly, most Americans don't care about this.

[erronis]

20. Speak for yourself.

Not sure which "most" you mean. Some 60% are not in favor of this corrupt administration.

[sunonmars]

16. Trump flipout tweet storm coming in 5,4,3......

[sunonmars]

22. out and out lying to congress....see this

Link to tweet

[ancianita]

23. The Times will sort this out for us. I'm not going to even try.

[liberalla]

25. Thank you! I'm really looking forward to settling in later and spending time going through this....

[Lonestarblue]

26. While this will not get the traitor out of office, historians can write from facts.

Historians will not be able to rely on any documents created by anyone in the Trump administration because they are likely to contain nothing but lies, like their climate data.

[crickets]

27. Wonderful! Adam Schiff and the Intel Committee delivered.

I was just complaining today that I wished that something, anything would drop. Hallelujah material for ages. Rachel is going to have a field day that lasts and lasts...

*happydance*

[Roland99]

28. Didn't think of that. Rachel should be gooood tonight!

[Roland99]

40. She was barely able to talk about it

SO much going on today

Lawrence so fat focusing on Covid

[crickets]

41. True. It's going to take her some time to start reading all of it first.

She and staff will have made headway and have something by tomorrow no doubt.

[oasis]

29. Trump 2nd term toast. More rats will flee this sinking ship

[milestogo]

30. What about the golden showers hooker?

Did they interview her?

[iluvtennis]

31. Wow.... bookmarking this. Gotta some reading to do next week. Thanks for posting this. nt

[sellitman]

32. Oh Rachel

Oh Rachel.

[burrowowl]

33. Kick!

[jimlup]

34. History will at least have the truth...

but mark my words, the electorate may even be shown the truth but most will completely forget it by November of 2020. It is up to us to keep pushing to remove the orange clown no matter what. And then at least history can record what actually happened.

If not, then God help us! And I don't believe in God.

[kyburbonkid]

35. This is really needed because Barr just drop the case againt Flynn.

Remember the first guy to plead guilty "Michael Flynn". He's been in jail. Trump's campaign manager? Ring a bell? Barr just ordered the Justice Department to drop the prosecution of the case based on the reasoning that the FBI had their facts wrong. In a pig's eye.

It's just like we have a Mob-boss for an Attorney General.

[niyad]

37. KNR and bokmarking.

[Marthe48]

38. Just got done downloading every report

in case they somehow disappear

[Captain Zero]

46. good I was thinking that should be done by lots of us

nt

[Roland99]

49. I used to have a method for scraping files of links from a page

This was years ago

I’m sure there’s something out now that would work

Might try that later today

[Leith]

50. I just did

It took a little while, but it was easy.

I'm looking forward to reading some of them: Roger Stone, Michael Cohen, redacted witness, to name a few.

[spanone]

39. K&R

[kentuck]

42. Only one name was redacted?

Was that Ivanka?

[Hekate]

44. Bookmarking!

[Lock him up.]

45. K&R&BOOKMARK

LOCK EM UP
LOCK EM UP
LOCK EM UP

[triron]

51. knr

[disndat]

52. With the appt. of the new Post Office General,

Louis DeJoy. Trump is getting ready to steal the next election by doing something to the vote-by-mail ballots.

[Ligyron]

54. You may be onto something there, my friend

Next comes a couple phony anthrax laced mailings to a few conservative pols in late October.