Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
By Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen @ DailyBeast.com, 03.22.18 7:00 PM ET
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia’s military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It’s an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRU tradecraft.
That forensic determination has substantial implications for the criminal probe into potential collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia. The Daily Beast has learned that the special counsel in that investigation, Robert Mueller, has taken over the probe into Guccifer and brought the FBI agents who worked to track the persona onto his team.
While it’s unclear what Mueller plans to do with Guccifer [....]
NYTimes has the main things Nader and Broidy wanted from Trump:
A cooperating witness in the special counsel investigation worked for more than a year to turn a top Trump fund-raiser into an instrument of influence at the White House for the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to interviews and previously undisclosed documents.
Hundreds of pages of correspondence between the two men reveal an active effort to cultivate President Trump on behalf of the two oil-rich Arab monarchies, both close American allies.
High on the agenda of the two men — George Nader, a political adviser to the de facto ruler of the U.A.E., and Elliott Broidy, the deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee — was pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, backing confrontational approaches to Iran and Qatar and repeatedly pressing the president to meet privately outside the White House with the leader of the U.A.E.[....]
p.s. Note that the NYTimes probably got the docs from someone supportive of Qatar:
The documents, which included emails, business proposals and contracts, were provided by an anonymous group critical of Mr. Broidy’s advocacy of American foreign policies in the Middle East. The Times showed Mr. Broidy’s representatives copies of all of the emails it intended to cite in an article. In his statement, Mr. Broidy said he could not confirm the authenticity of all of them, noting that The Times was able to show him only printouts and not the original emails.
A spokesman for Mr. Broidy has said he believes the documents were stolen by hackers working for Qatar in retaliation for his work critical of the country — a regional nemesis of the Saudis and Emiratis.
and that the article continues with Broidy's lawyer threatening Qatar over that
President Trump dismissed the young foreign policy adviser as a “low level volunteer,” but emails show he had more extensive contact with key campaign figures than previously known.
[....] Emails described to The Washington Post, which are among thousands of documents turned over to investigators examining Russia’s interference in the 2016 campaign, show Papadopoulos had more extensive contact with key Trump campaign and presidential transition officials than has been publicly acknowledged.
Among those who communicated with Papadopoulos weresenior campaign figures such as chief executive Stephen K. Bannon and adviser Michael Flynn, who corresponded with him about his efforts to broker ties between Trump and top foreign officials, the emails show [.....]
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Guccifer 2.0 was an officer of the GRU and Mueller has taken over that investigation:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Lone DNC Hacker’ Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer
Robert Mueller’s team has taken over the investigation of Guccifer 2.0, who communicated with (and was defended by) longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone.
By Spencer Ackerman & Kevin Poulsen @ DailyBeast.com, 03.22.18 7:00 PM ET
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 10:37pm
Stone & how the story GRU
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 12:56am
NYTimes has the main things Nader and Broidy wanted from Trump:
@ How 2 Gulf Monarchies Sought to Influence the White House
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and MARK MAZZETTI, MARCH 21, 2018
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 11:35pm
p.s. Note that the NYTimes probably got the docs from someone supportive of Qatar:
and that the article continues with Broidy's lawyer threatening Qatar over that
by artappraiser on Thu, 03/22/2018 - 11:50pm
Someone's leaking content from Papadopoulos docs with Mueller to WaPo:
Trump officials encouraged George Papadopoulos’s foreign outreach, documents show
President Trump dismissed the young foreign policy adviser as a “low level volunteer,” but emails show he had more extensive contact with key campaign figures than previously known.
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 4:38pm
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by artappraiser on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 5:02pm
JOSHUA KUSHNER MET WITH GOVERNMENT OF QATAR TO DISCUSS FINANCING IN THE SAME WEEK FATHER CHARLES KUSHNER DID
By Clayton Swisher & Ryan Grim @ TheIntercept.com, March 23
by artappraiser on Fri, 03/23/2018 - 5:01pm