NEW: A Whopper Of A Misrepresentation Discovered In The Mueller Report
Posted at 6:00 am on June 7, 2019 by Elizabeth Vaughn
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-...-misrepresentation-discovered-mueller-report/
The Hill’s John Solomon has discovered a major misrepresentation in the Mueller Report.
In the opening of the report, the Mueller team ties Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Paul Manafort’s lobbying firm, to Russian intelligence. The reality is that Kilimnik was a top informant for the U.S. State Department and other Western intelligence agencies as well.
Solomon reports:
Solomon, a long time investigative reporter, has extensive contacts inside the U.S. intelligence community. One of the FBI interview reports he reviewed said, “Purcell described what he considered an unusual level of discretion that was taken with handling Kilimnik. Normally the head of the political section would not handle sources, but Kasanof informed Purcell that KILIMNIK was a sensitive source.”
The report states:
According to the report, Kasanof said he was aware that Kilimnik worked for Manafort and “the administration of former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych whose Party of Regions hired Manafort’s firm…Kasanof described Kilimnik as one of the few reliable insiders the U.S. Embassy had informing on Yanukovych. Kasanof told the FBI:
Kasanof also told the agents that he “met with Kilimnik at least bi-weekly and occasionally multiple times in the same week.”
Kilimnik owned homes in both Russia and Ukraine, but “State officials told the FBI he did not appear to hold any allegiance to Moscow and was critical of Russia’s invasion of the Crimean territory of Ukraine.”
Solomon wrote that “three sources with direct knowledge of the inner workings of Mueller’s office confirmed” that the Mueller team had received “all of the FBI interviews with State officials, as well as Kilimnik’s intelligence reports to the U.S. Embassy” at some point in 2018. Yet in their March 2019 report, they claimed he was a Russian asset and charged him with working with “Manafort in a scheme to obstruct the Russia investigation.”
Solomon had access to “scores of State Department emails” which “contained regular intelligence from Kilimnik on happenings inside the Yanukovych administration, the Crimea conflict and Ukrainian and Russian politics.” He said that all of these documents corroborate Kasanof’s and Purcell’s interviews. He added:
The Mueller report states that in August 2016, “Kilimnik requested the meeting [with Paul Manafort at Trump Tower] to deliver in person a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort acknowledged to the Special Counsel’s Office was a ‘backdoor’ way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine.”
Yet the State emails which Solomon reviewed indicated that Kilimnik had delivered the plan to the Obama administration three months earlier. He met Kasanof for dinner on May 5, 2016 in Washington. The next day, Kilimnik “sent an email to Kasanof’s official State email address recounting the peace plan they had discussed.”
Solomon described the email he had seen:
Kasanof responded that, though he was “skeptical of some of the intelligence on Russian intentions, it was very important for us to know…I passed the info to my bosses, who are chewing it over.”
In his interview with the FBI, Kasanof said he believed he “sent Kilimnik’s peace plan to two senior State officials, including Victoria Nuland, Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs.”
The Mueller report, unsurprisingly, makes no mention of the fact that Kilimnik had given the peace plan to his handler at the State Department in May, but presents his delivery of the plan to Manafort three months later as “potentially nefarious.”
This is a major misrepresentation. Documents indicate that the Mueller team had all of this information in early 2018, yet their final report written one year later omits the one and includes (and embellishes) the other.
Solomon also saw an email Kilimnik had sent last month to The Washington Post, in which “he slammed the Mueller report’s “made-up narrative” about him. “I have no ties to Russian or, for that matter, any intelligence operation.”
Last week, it was reported that the Mueller report omitted an important sentence from a voicemail left by former Trump attorney John Dowd to Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner. That omission completely changed the meaning of the message.
Yesterday, I posted here about the Special Counsel prosecutors’ refusal to turn over transcripts of Michael Flynn’s December 2016 telephone conversations with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, despite Judge Emmet Sullivan’s request. What are they trying to hide?
And now, we have John Solomon’s bombshell revelation about how the Mueller team completely mischaracterized the role of Konstantin Kilimnik.
That’s three red flags in one week. And I can’t imagine that’s the end of it. My guess is that a careful examination of Mueller’s report will offer up a treasure trove of omissions, misrepresentations and outright lies.
Add to that Mueller’s deceptive press conference last week, during which he sought to stir up impeachment fever among House Democrats. Ultimately, Mueller had to walk back his incendiary remarks in a joint statement with the DOJ.
Mueller’s credibility has taken a huge hit. His report will rightly be scrutinized in the weeks to come and likely be viewed as the partisan propaganda we thought it would be.
And just like the powerful master of the universe Robert S. Mueller III said himself, we’ll let the report speak for itself.
Posted at 6:00 am on June 7, 2019 by Elizabeth Vaughn
https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-...-misrepresentation-discovered-mueller-report/
The Hill’s John Solomon has discovered a major misrepresentation in the Mueller Report.
In the opening of the report, the Mueller team ties Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Paul Manafort’s lobbying firm, to Russian intelligence. The reality is that Kilimnik was a top informant for the U.S. State Department and other Western intelligence agencies as well.
Solomon reports:
Solomon, a long time investigative reporter, has extensive contacts inside the U.S. intelligence community. One of the FBI interview reports he reviewed said, “Purcell described what he considered an unusual level of discretion that was taken with handling Kilimnik. Normally the head of the political section would not handle sources, but Kasanof informed Purcell that KILIMNIK was a sensitive source.”
The report states:
According to the report, Kasanof said he was aware that Kilimnik worked for Manafort and “the administration of former Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych whose Party of Regions hired Manafort’s firm…Kasanof described Kilimnik as one of the few reliable insiders the U.S. Embassy had informing on Yanukovych. Kasanof told the FBI:
Kasanof also told the agents that he “met with Kilimnik at least bi-weekly and occasionally multiple times in the same week.”
Kilimnik owned homes in both Russia and Ukraine, but “State officials told the FBI he did not appear to hold any allegiance to Moscow and was critical of Russia’s invasion of the Crimean territory of Ukraine.”
Solomon wrote that “three sources with direct knowledge of the inner workings of Mueller’s office confirmed” that the Mueller team had received “all of the FBI interviews with State officials, as well as Kilimnik’s intelligence reports to the U.S. Embassy” at some point in 2018. Yet in their March 2019 report, they claimed he was a Russian asset and charged him with working with “Manafort in a scheme to obstruct the Russia investigation.”
Solomon had access to “scores of State Department emails” which “contained regular intelligence from Kilimnik on happenings inside the Yanukovych administration, the Crimea conflict and Ukrainian and Russian politics.” He said that all of these documents corroborate Kasanof’s and Purcell’s interviews. He added:
The Mueller report states that in August 2016, “Kilimnik requested the meeting [with Paul Manafort at Trump Tower] to deliver in person a peace plan for Ukraine that Manafort acknowledged to the Special Counsel’s Office was a ‘backdoor’ way for Russia to control part of eastern Ukraine.”
Yet the State emails which Solomon reviewed indicated that Kilimnik had delivered the plan to the Obama administration three months earlier. He met Kasanof for dinner on May 5, 2016 in Washington. The next day, Kilimnik “sent an email to Kasanof’s official State email address recounting the peace plan they had discussed.”
Solomon described the email he had seen:
Kasanof responded that, though he was “skeptical of some of the intelligence on Russian intentions, it was very important for us to know…I passed the info to my bosses, who are chewing it over.”
In his interview with the FBI, Kasanof said he believed he “sent Kilimnik’s peace plan to two senior State officials, including Victoria Nuland, Obama’s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs.”
The Mueller report, unsurprisingly, makes no mention of the fact that Kilimnik had given the peace plan to his handler at the State Department in May, but presents his delivery of the plan to Manafort three months later as “potentially nefarious.”
This is a major misrepresentation. Documents indicate that the Mueller team had all of this information in early 2018, yet their final report written one year later omits the one and includes (and embellishes) the other.
Solomon also saw an email Kilimnik had sent last month to The Washington Post, in which “he slammed the Mueller report’s “made-up narrative” about him. “I have no ties to Russian or, for that matter, any intelligence operation.”
Last week, it was reported that the Mueller report omitted an important sentence from a voicemail left by former Trump attorney John Dowd to Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner. That omission completely changed the meaning of the message.
Yesterday, I posted here about the Special Counsel prosecutors’ refusal to turn over transcripts of Michael Flynn’s December 2016 telephone conversations with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, despite Judge Emmet Sullivan’s request. What are they trying to hide?
And now, we have John Solomon’s bombshell revelation about how the Mueller team completely mischaracterized the role of Konstantin Kilimnik.
That’s three red flags in one week. And I can’t imagine that’s the end of it. My guess is that a careful examination of Mueller’s report will offer up a treasure trove of omissions, misrepresentations and outright lies.
Add to that Mueller’s deceptive press conference last week, during which he sought to stir up impeachment fever among House Democrats. Ultimately, Mueller had to walk back his incendiary remarks in a joint statement with the DOJ.
Mueller’s credibility has taken a huge hit. His report will rightly be scrutinized in the weeks to come and likely be viewed as the partisan propaganda we thought it would be.
And just like the powerful master of the universe Robert S. Mueller III said himself, we’ll let the report speak for itself.
