Epstein Secrets

were responsible for hacking into the Dem- ocratic National Committee's computers, stealing millions of files, and turning the information over to WikiLeaks, which in turn circulated it to the media. Some may find the evidence unsatisfactory. But given Russia's well-established record of cyberwarfare,

publicans, including presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. But by the time he became Donald Trump's campaign chairman in 2016, Manafort was best known for his work on behalf of foreign political leaders, including several with distinctly autocratic pedigrees: Ferdinand Marcos, the

ovych, president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014, when he was forced to abandon the presidency and flee to Russia in the wake of nationwide protests. Manafort's work to dress up the images of Marcos and Mobutu stood out at a time when American consul- tants seldom represented dictators or authoritarians.

intelligence, it was rumored, consisted of spreadsheets kept by Susan Rice that listed the Trump team’s Russian contacts; borrowing a technique from WikiLeaks, the documents were secreted on a dozen servers in different places. Before this broad distribution, when the information was held tightly, it would

artment to prompt them to develop DOJ relationships and sources, and now they were always up on DOJ gossip. Flynn was going to throw him in the soup. Manafort was going to roll. And it wasn’t just Russia. It was Atlantic City. And Mar-a-Lago. And Trump SoHo. Both Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani—each a sel

d ever receive close scrutiny, would now be subjected to microscopic review. His nemesis, Oleg Deripaska—still pursuing his $17 million claim against Manafort and himself looking for favorable treatment from federal authorities who had restricted his travel to the United States—was continuing his own deep i

Trump campaign with the Russians to obtain and distribute damaging information about Hillary Clinton—and, indeed, within days of the Don Jr. meeting, WikiLeaks announced that it had obtained Clinton emails. Less than a month later, it started to release them. ¢ The wide-eyed Trump campaign, largely still pl

gn chairman, Paul Manafort, and the campaign’s most influential voice, Jared Kushner, because: (a) a high-level conspiracy was being coordinated; (b) Manafort and Kushner, not taking the campaign very HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020076 seriously, and without a thought of any consequence here, were merely entertained

29, 204, 234, 237-38, 252-53, 255 Lewinsky, Monica, 233 Libya, 6, 42 Lighthizer, Robert, 133 Limbaugh, Rush, 128, 222 Lowe, Rob, 42 Luntz, Frank, 201 Manafort, Paul, 12, 17, 28, 101, 210, 240, 253-56, 278, 280 Manhattan, Inc., 74 Manigault, Omarosa, 109 Mar-a-Lago, 4, 69, 99, 106, 159, 189, 193-94, 210, 228

muggled cellphones, one of which purportedly allowed former CIA engineer Joshua Adam Schulte to leak classified data from prison. Months before the WikiLeaks source purportedly got hold of multiple contraband cellphones, including at least one heavily encrypted device, former MCC guard Victor Casado plead

secutors say he misled authorities about the work he performed for the Ukrainian government, which occurred after he left the Obama administration. Manafort had tapped Mr. Craig and his law firm, Skadden Arps, to write a report whitewashing a former Ukrainian president's prosecution of a political rival.

U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month." The AP adds, "The server was being used by a WikiLeaks-like data transparency collective called Distributed Denial of Secrets to share documents — many tagged 'For Official Use Only' — that shed light on

ase." Mr. Jensen's "dogged pursuit uncovered evidence that tended to exonerate the former national security adviser.* Trump "Thinking" About Stone, Manafort, Papadopoulos Pardons. President Trump was asked in an interview on Fox News' Hannity (7/9, 535K) if he is considering pardons or commutations for P

muggled cellphones, one of which purportedly allowed former CIA engineer Joshua Adam Schulte to leak classified data from prison. Months before the WikiLeaks source purportedly got hold of multiple contraband cellphones, including at least one heavily encrypted device, former MCC guard Victor Casado plead

secutors say he misled authorities about the work he performed for the Ukrainian government, which occurred after he left the Obama administration. Manafort had tapped Mr. Craig and his law firm, Skadden Arps, to write a report whitewashing a former Ukrainian president's prosecution of a political rival.

muggled cellphones, one of which purportedly allowed former CIA engineer Joshua Adam Schulte to leak classified data from prison. Months before the WikiLeaks source purportedly got hold of multiple contraband cellphones, including at least one heavily encrypted device, former MCC guard Victor Casado plead

secutors say he misled authorities about the work he performed for the Ukrainian government, which occurred after he left the Obama administration. Manafort had tapped Mr. Craig and his law firm, Skadden Arps, to write a report whitewashing a former Ukrainian president's prosecution of a political rival.