by emptywheel | Jan 10, 2019 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Update: The NYT had it correct the first time. They got — badly — played. Because the NYT corrected an error (noting that Paul Manafort instructed Konstantin Kilimnik to pass on Trump polling data to pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin and...
by emptywheel | Jan 9, 2019 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
In a piece puzzling through why Oleg Deripaska — who wrote a deceptive op-ed that was published at his outlet — would get polling data from Trump’s campaign manager [Note, NYT has updated reporting to specify that Manafort sent the data to Serhiy...
by emptywheel | Dec 29, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Because of a McClatchy story claiming two new details corroborating a Steele dossier claim that Michael Cohen had a meeting with people serving the interests of Putin’s Administration, people have gotten themselves into a tizzy again about what a smoking gun it...
by emptywheel | Dec 4, 2018 | 2016 Presidential Election, emptywheel, Mueller Probe, WikiLeaks
The NYT has an unbelievable story about how Paul Manafort went to Ecuador to try to get Julian Assange turned over. I say it’s unbelievable because it is 28 paragraphs long, yet it never once explains whether Assange would be turned over to the US for...
by emptywheel | Jun 12, 2018 | Cybersecurity, emptywheel, Mueller Probe
Even as Trump was working hard to get Russia admitted back into the G-7, Treasury was preparing new cyber sanctions against a number of “Russian” entities. This appears to be an effort to apply sanctions for activities exploiting routers and other network...
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