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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More curious omissions from Mueller's report.......

[quote]In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.

But hundreds of pages of government documents — which Mueller possessed since 2018 — describe Kilimnik as a “sensitive” intelligence source for the U.S. State Department who informed on Ukrainian and Russian matters.

Why special counsel Robert Mueller’s team omitted that part of the Kilimnik narrative from their report and related court filings is not known. But the revelation of it comes as the accuracy of Mueller’s Russia conclusions face increased scrutiny.

The incomplete portrayal of Kilimnik is so important to Mueller’s overall narrative that it is raised in the opening of his report. “The FBI assesses” Kilimnik “to have ties to Russian intelligence,” Mueller’s team wrote on page 6, putting a sinister light on every contact Kilimnik had with Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman.

What it doesn’t state is that Kilimnik was a “sensitive” intelligence source for State going back to at least 2013 while he was still working for Manafort, according to FBI and State Department memos I reviewed.

Kilimnik was not just any run-of-the-mill source, either.

He interacted with the chief political officer at the U.S. embassy in Kiev, sometimes meeting several times a week to provide information on the Ukraine government. He relayed messages back to Ukraine’s leaders and delivered written reports to U.S. officials via emails that stretched on for thousands of words, the memos show.

The FBI knew all of this, well before the Mueller investigation concluded.[/quote]

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/447394-key-figure-that-mueller-report-linked-to-russia-was-a-state-department[/quote]

In that case, it's totally reasonable that Manafort provided campaign information to Kilimnik.

Oh wait...[/quote]

Why did Mueller omit that Kilimnik was a sensitive intelligence source for the State Dept.? [/quote]

Because it's not relevant.  Manafort wasn't using Kilimnik to communicate with State.

Nor does it somehow make Manafort's actions okay.  Think about it for a minute.  A campaign manager of a presidential candidate is providing campaign information to a foreign national, a pro-Russia Ukrainian.  Why?  It's hard to think of any good reason for this.  Can you?[/quote]

Yet, Mueller claims this man has ties to Russian intelligence, but says nothing of his ties to US intelligence?  
This is a problem.  How much other information was omitted?  [/quote]

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