Жернова правосудия

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В число объектов расследования в комиссиях Конгресса попали знакомые персонажи - Борис Эпштейн и Майкл Коэн.

The Congressional investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election continues to grow, as yet another Trump associate, Boris Epshteyn, has acknowledged that he has received a request for information from lawmakers. Epshteyn, a Trump campaign adviser who briefly served in the White House press office, confirmed to ABC News that he has received a lengthy list of questions from the House Intelligence Committee.
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/white-house-press-officer-boris-epshteyn-investigation-russia/story?id=47731166

One of President Donald Trump’s closest confidants, his personal lawyer Michael Cohen, has now become a focus of the expanding congressional investigation into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 campaign. Cohen confirmed to ABC News that House and Senate investigators have asked him “to provide information and testimony” about any contacts he had with people connected to the Russian government, but he said he has turned down the invitation. “I declined the invitation to participate, as the request was poorly phrased, overly broad and not capable of being answered,” Cohen told ABC News in an email Tuesday. After Cohen rejected the congressional requests for cooperation, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to grant its chairman, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, and ranking Democrat, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, blanket authority to issue subpoenas as they deem necessary.
http://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/russia-investigation-expands-include-donald-trumps-personal-attorney/story?id=47646601



Информация в досье Стила о ключевой роли Коэна в координации Трампа с российскими спецслужбами является наиболее инкриминирующей и весьма детальной. Говорится о встрече в Праге с Косачевым в августе/сентябре 2016. До конца этой информации доверять не стоит. Вместе с тем изначальные отмазки Коэна выглядели подозрительно. Любое подтверждение такой встречи будет иметь разрушительный эффект.

We reported previously (2016/135 and /136) on secret meeting/s held in Prague, Czech Republic in August 2016 between then Republican presidential candidate Donald TRUMP’s representative, Michael COHEN and his interlocutors from the Kremlin working under cover of Russian NGO Rossotrudnichestvo.
[REDACTED BY BUZZFEED NEWS] provided further details of these meeting/s and associated anti-CLINTON /Democratic Party operations. COHEN had been accompanied to Prague by 3 colleagues and the timing of the visit was either in the last week of August or the first week of September. One of their main Russian interlocutors was Oleg SOLODUKHIN operating under Rossotrudnichestvo cover. According to [REDACTED BY BUZZFEED NEWS] the agenda comprised questions on how deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the CLINTON campaign and various contingencies for covering up these operations and Moscow’s secret liaison with the TRUMP team more generally.
https://themoscowproject.org/dossier.html

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Пять каналов связи

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В шпионском деле каналы связи с "центром" занимают центральное место. Каналы необходимы для передачи инструкций и информации, но при этом они являются самым уязвимым местом в спецоперации.

Трамп, как известно, не доверяет обычным средствам коммуникации и предпочитает использовать курьеров.

“It’s very important, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old-fashioned way, because I’ll tell you what, no computer is safe.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-hacking.html

При этом он без оглядки раздает номер своего мобильного телефона другим лидерам.

President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications.
https://apnews.com/c5a228e9d5a54cb3ac172efcf65eb521/Trump's-cellphone-diplomacy-raises-security-concerns



Что касается тайных каналов связи Трампа с Кремлем, то был обнаружен не один, а целых пять различных каналов:

1. Через Флинна путем прямых звонков Кисляку.

2. Через Кушнера тоже с выходом на Кисляка, а также Горкова в Нью-Йорке.

Белый дом до сих пор не смог придумать разумного объяснения тайному каналу связи, который Кушнер обсуждал с Кисляком. Одна зацепка, запущенная через New York Times и Fox News, была про Сирию:

It is unclear who first proposed the communications channel, but the people familiar with the meeting said the idea was to have Mr. Flynn speak directly with a senior military official in Moscow to discuss Syria and other security issues. The communications channel was never set up, the people said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/us/politics/kushner-talked-to-russian-envoy-about-creating-secret-channel-with-kremlin.html

The idea of a permanent back channel was never discussed, according to the source. Instead, only a one-off for a call about Syria was raised in the conversation.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/29/jared-kushner-didnt-suggest-russian-communications-channel-in-meeting-source-says.html

Допустим, у Трампа был тайный план победы над ИГИЛ, этот план включал Россию и поэтому потребовалось осуждение по тайному каналу. Но непонятно, причем тут Горков и Внешэкономбанк и о чем были обсуждения до выборов. Джош Маршалл, который изо всех сил пытался придумать невинное неконспирологическое объяснение поведению Трампа, после последних известий о Кушнере сдался:

There’s simply no innocent explanation for that. Not naivete, no fear of Obama snooping, not plausible deniability. The only explanation for that level of secrecy and security, that level of collaboration with an adversary foreign power is that they were doing something wrong, something that had to stay secret. What it was I don’t know. It wasn’t innocent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sorry-on-kushner-theres-no-innocent-explanation

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