Po'lat hujjatlar - Steele dossier

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The Po'lat hujjatlar, deb ham tanilgan Trump - Rossiya hujjatlari,^[1][2][3] siyosiy muxolifat tadqiqotlari 2016 yil iyundan dekabrgacha yozilgan hisobot, o'zaro noto'g'ri xatti-harakatlar, fitna va o'zaro hamkorlik ayblovlarini o'z ichiga olgan Donald Trampning prezidentlik kampaniyasi va Rossiya hukumati davomida 2016 yilgi saylov. Guardian munozarali oppozitsiya tadqiqotlarini tasvirlab berdi^[4] "zamonaviy siyosiy tarixdagi eng portlovchi hujjatlardan biri" sifatida.^[5] Ma'lumotnoma, sızdırıldı ruxsatsiz, tugallanmagan 35 sahifali xom razvedka^[6] sezgir va bilmagan ma'lumotlarga asoslangan noma'lum manbalar muallifga ma'lum, qarshi razvedka mutaxassis^[7] Kristofer Stil,^[8] uchun Rossiya stolining sobiq rahbari Britaniya razvedkasi Uchun yozilgan (MI6) xususiy tergov firmasi Fusion GPS. Ma'lumotnomaning 17 ta tahrir qilinmagan hisobotlarida Trump kampaniyasi a'zolari va Rossiya tezkor xodimlari hamkorlik qilish uchun til biriktirganligi da'vo qilingan. Rossiyaning saylovlarga aralashuvi Trampga foyda keltiradi.^[9] Shuningdek, unda Rossiya zarar etkazmoqchi bo'lganligi da'vo qilingan Hillari Klinton nomzodi, shu jumladan Tramp kampaniyasi bilan Klinton haqidagi salbiy ma'lumotlarni almashish.^[10] The qoralama hujjatlar to'liq nashr qilindi BuzzFeed yangiliklari 2017 yil 10-yanvar kuni,^[11] tasdiqlanmaganligini ta'kidlab.^[12] Bu ruxsatisiz amalga oshirildi Orbis Business Intelligence yoki Stil.^{[13][14][15][16]} Bir nechta asosiy ommaviy axborot vositalari tanqid qilindi BuzzFeed'hisobotlarni ularning da'volarini tekshirmasdan nashr etish to'g'risidagi qarori,^[17][18] boshqalar esa o'z qarorini himoya qildilar.^[19]

2015 yil oktyabr oyida, Fusion GPS tomonidan shartnoma tuzilgan konservativ siyosiy veb-sayt Washington Free Beacon Tramp va boshqa respublikachilarning prezidentlikka nomzodlari bo'yicha umumiy muxolifat tadqiqotlarini o'tkazish. Alohida ravishda, 2016 yil aprel oyida advokat Hillari Klintonning saylovoldi kampaniyasi va DNC Trampni tekshirish uchun Fusion GPS-ni yollagan, ammo Bepul mayoq 2016 yil may oyida qo'llab-quvvatlashni to'xtatdi.^[8] 2016 yil iyun oyida Fusion GPS doskani tuzish uchun Steele firmasiga subpudrat shartnomasi tuzdi. DNC rasmiylari o'zlarining advokatlari Fusion GPS bilan shartnoma tuzganligini rad etdilar va Stil Fusion GPS bilan shartnoma tuzganidan bir necha oy o'tgach, Klinton kampaniyasi uning tadqiqotlari oluvchisi ekanligidan xabardor emasligini ta'kidladi.^[20][21] Tramp prezident etib saylanganidan so'ng, Klinton va DNC tomonidan moliyalashtirish to'xtatildi, ammo Stil tadqiqotlarini davom ettirdi va Fusion GPS asoschisi tomonidan to'g'ridan-to'g'ri to'langanligi xabar qilindi Glenn R. Simpson.^[22] Ma'lumotlarni yig'ish paytida Stil ba'zi topilmalarini inglizlarga ham, amerikaliklarga ham etkazdi razvedka xizmatlari.^[23][24]

Ommaviy axborot vositalari, razvedka hamjamiyati, va aksariyat ekspertlar hujjatni tekshirilmagan ayblovlari tufayli ehtiyotkorlik bilan davolashdi, Tramp esa buni qoraladi soxta yangiliklar.^[25] AQSh razvedka hamjamiyati bu ayblovlarni jiddiy qabul qildi,^[26] va Federal tergov byurosi (FBI) hujjatning har bir satrini o'rganib chiqdi va kamida ikkitadan Stil manbalarini aniqladi va ular bilan suhbatlashdi.^[27] 2017 yil yanvar oyida birlamchi quyi manbada Stil ba'zi ma'lumotlarni noto'g'ri yoki bo'rttirib aytgan.^[28] The Myullerning hisoboti, topilmalarining xulosasi Maxsus advokatning tekshiruvi Rossiyaning 2016 yilgi Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlaridagi saylovlarga aralashuviga, ba'zi bir hujjat ma'lumotlariga ishora qilingan, ammo uning shov-shuvli da'volari haqida ozgina eslatib o'tilgan.^[27]

Ma'lumotnomaning ba'zi jihatlari tasdiqlandi,^[29][30] xususan uning Putin va Rossiya Trampni Klintonga nisbatan faol ravishda qo'llab-quvvatlashi haqidagi asosiy ayblovlari^[31][23] va bu Trump kampaniyasining ko'plab rasmiylari va sheriklari ruslar bilan bir nechta maxfiy aloqada bo'lishgan.^[32][33] Biroq, hujjatdagi ko'plab ayblovlar tekshirilmagan bo'lib qolmoqda. Bitta ayblov Maykl Koen Myuller Report tomonidan ishdan bo'shatilgan.^[34] Sud yana bir da'vo "noto'g'ri va chalg'ituvchi" deb topdi.^[35] Goldman va Vahshiylik buni "chuqur nuqsonli" deb ta'rifladilar.^[36] Daily Telegraph noma'lum manbalarga ko'ra, Rossiya razvedka xizmatlari bu ma'lumotlarning to'g'riligiga shubha tug'dirmoqchi bo'lishi mumkin.^[37]

Ma'lumotlar bazasi omil hisoblanadi bir nechta fitna nazariyalari. A-dan farqli o'laroq fitna nazariyasi^[38][39] Trump tomonidan ilgari surilgan,^[40] Fox News,^[41] va Trampning Kongressni qo'llab-quvvatlovchilarining ko'pi, bu hujjat Federal qidiruv byurosining ochilishiga turtki bo'lmadi "Crossfire bo'roni" bilan aloqador shaxslar bor-yo'qligini qarshi razvedka tekshiruvi Donald J. Trump Prezident saylovoldi kampaniyasi uchun Rossiya hukumatining 2016 yilgi AQSh prezidentlik saylovlariga aralashishga qaratilgan harakatlarini bila turib yoki bilmagan holda muvofiqlashtirayotgan edilar ".^[42][43][44] shuningdek, razvedka hamjamiyatining 2016 yilgi saylovlarda Rossiyaning harakatlari to'g'risida bergan bahoida hech qanday rol o'ynamagan.^[45] Bu izlashda markaziy rol o'ynadi FISA kafolatlangan Karter sahifasi^[42] FISA-ning past darajasini o'rnatish nuqtai nazaridan^[46] uchun mumkin bo'lgan sabab.^[47]

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The muxolifat tadqiqotlari tomonidan olib borilgan Fusion GPS Donald Trumpda ikkita alohida operatsiya bo'lib, ularning har biri boshqa mijozga ega edi. Birinchi tadqiqot operatsiyasi, 2015 yil oktyabridan 2016 yil mayigacha, mahalliy tadqiqot tomonidan moliyalashtirildi Washington Free Beacon. Ikkinchi operatsiya, 2016 yil apreldan 2016 yil dekabrgacha, tomonidan moliyalashtirildi DNC va Klinton kampaniyasi. Faqatgina ikkinchi operatsiya ushbu hujjatni yaratgan xorijiy tadqiqotlarni o'z ichiga olgan.^[48][49] 2016 yil aprel oyidan may oyining boshigacha Washington Free Beacon va Klinton Kampaniyasi / DNC mustaqil ravishda Fusion GPS-ning ikkala mijozi bo'lgan.

Tadqiqot konservativ veb-sayt tomonidan moliyalashtiriladi

2015 yil oktyabr oyida, rasmiy boshlanishidan oldin 2016 yil respublika birlamchi kampaniyasi, Fusion GPS asoschilari siyosiy ish izlaydilar va "ular Trumpni yoqtirmaydigan tanigan katta konservativ donorga [va] ular yollanganiga" elektron pochta xabarlarini yozishdi. U ulardan foydalanishni tashkil qildi Washington Free Beacon, amerikalik konservativ siyosiy jurnalistika veb-sayt, bir nechta Respublikachilar partiyasidan prezidentlikka nomzodlarni, shu jumladan Trampni umumiy muxolifat tadqiqotlari uchun.^[4][50] U asosan respublika donorlari tomonidan moliyalashtiriladi Pol Singer.^[50] The Bepul mayoq va Singer "konservatorning bir qismi edi hech qachon Trump harakati ".^[51]

Tergovning boshida ular yordam olishdi tergovchi muxbir Ueyn Barret, ularga Trampga oid ishlarini kim bergan. Ularda "Trampning avvalgi muomalalari, shu jumladan soliq va bankrotlik muammolari, uyushgan jinoyatchilik bilan bog'liq aloqalar va ko'plab huquqiy chalkashliklar to'g'risida topilmalar mavjud edi. Shuningdek, ular Trampning kelib chiqishi shubhali bo'lgan ruslar bilan juda ko'p sonli aloqalari borligini aniqladilar."^[4]

Bir necha oy davomida Fusion GPS Tramp haqida ma'lumot to'plab, uning biznes va ko'ngilochar faoliyatiga e'tibor qaratdi. Tramp 2016 yil 3 mayda taxmin qilingan nomzodga aylanganda,^[52] konservativ donor unga oid tadqiqotlarni moliyalashtirishni to'xtatdi.^[8][53]

2017 yil oktyabr oyida Bepul mayoq bayonot berdi:

Fusion GPS tomonidan taqdim etilgan barcha ishlar Bepul mayoq ommaviy manbalarga asoslangan edi, va hech bir ish mahsuloti Bepul mayoq Qabul qilinganlar Po'lat hujjatlarida ko'rinadi. The Bepul mayoq Steele hujjatlari haqida hech qanday ma'lumotga ega bo'lmagan yoki u bilan aloqasi bo'lmagan, hujjat uchun pul to'lamagan va Kristofer Stil tomonidan bajarilgan har qanday ish bilan hech qachon aloqada bo'lmagan, u haqida ma'lumot olmagan va u uchun haq to'lamagan. Shuningdek, biz Fusion GPS va Demokratik Milliy Qo'mita, Perkins Kou va Klinton kampaniyasi o'rtasidagi munosabatlar haqida hech qanday ma'lumotga ega emas edik.^[54]

Garchi Steele hujjatini moliyalashtirish manbai bir yil oldin to'g'ri xabar qilingan bo'lsa-da,^[8][53][55] va Bepul mayoq 2017 yil oktyabr oyida bu haqda bayonot bergan edi,^[54] 2-fevral, 2018-yil, hikoya Associated Press (AP) hujjat "dastlab mablag 'bilan ta'minlanganligini" aytib, o'z mablag'lari bilan bog'liq chalkashliklarga hissa qo'shdi Washington Free Beacon, shuning uchun AP ertasi kuni tuzatish kiritdi: "Garchi sobiq ayg'oqchi Kristofer Stil dastlab Washington Free Beacon tomonidan moliyalashtiriladigan firma tomonidan yollangan bo'lsa-da, u Demokratik guruhlar moliyalashtirishni boshlaguniga qadar loyihada ishlashni boshlamadi. u. "^[56]

2016 yil bahoriga kelib, Fusion GPS tadqiqotchilari Tramp to'g'risida allaqachon bilib olganlaridan shu qadar qo'rqib ketishganki, ular "Trampni Oq uyga kiritmaslik uchun qo'lidan kelganicha harakat qilish" zarurligini sezishgan.^[57]

Demokratlar tomonidan moliyalashtiriladigan tadqiqotlar ma'lumotnomani ishlab chiqaradi

Muxolifat tadqiqotlarining ikkinchi operatsiyasi bilvosita moliyalashtirildi DNC va Klinton kampaniyasi, ularning yozuvlari bo'yicha advokati orqali ishlash, Mark Elias ning Perkins Kou.^[58] 2017 yil oktyabr oyida Perkins Coie-ning bosh maslahatchisi Metyu Gehringer 2016 yil mart oyida Fusion GPS Perkins Coie-ga qanday murojaat qilganini va Klinton kampaniyasi va DNC uning mijozi ekanligini bilib, mijozlari tadqiqotlarni davom ettirish uchun Fusion GPS-ga "to'lashni xohlayaptimi yoki yo'qmi" deb so'raganligini tasvirlab berdi. o'sha paytdagi prezidentlikka nomzod Donald Trampga nisbatan Fusion GPS respublikachilarning birlamchi tanlovi paytida bir yoki bir nechta boshqa mijozlar uchun o'tkazgan tadqiqotlari. "^[59] 2016 yil aprel oyida Elias Trampga qarshi muxolifat tadqiqotlarini o'tkazish uchun Fusion GPS-ni yolladi.^[58][59]

Ushbu harakat Simpson tomonidan zaxirasiz amalga oshirilmadi, chunki u Xillari Klintonga yordam berish g'oyasini yoqtirmadi: "" HRCda ishlashni ko'rishimning yagona usuli - bu Trampga qarshi bo'lsa ", deb Simpson elektron pochta orqali yozgan. uning sheriklari. "^[60]

2016 yil iyun oyida,^[8] Perkins Coie uchun o'z ishining bir qismi sifatida Fusion GPS yollangan Orbis Business Intelligence, Britaniyaning maxsus razvedka firmasi, Trump va Rossiya o'rtasidagi aloqalarni ko'rib chiqish uchun. Orbis asoschilaridan biri Kristofer Stil, nafaqaga chiqqan ingliz MI6 rus masalalarida tajribaga ega zobit,^[8] ishni bajarish uchun subpudratchi sifatida yollangan.^[61] Ma'lumotnoma ustida ishlashdan oldin Stil pullik uchun ma'lumot beruvchi bo'lgan Federal qidiruv byurosi^[62] Rossiya tergovi bilan bog'liq bo'lmagan ma'lumot uchun.^[63]

Umuman olganda, Perkins Coie Fusion GPS-ga 1,02 dollar to'lagan million to'lovlar va xarajatlar, ulardan Fusion GPS hujjatni ishlab chiqarish uchun Orbis-ga 168 ming dollar to'lagan.^[64] DNC va Klinton kampaniyasi Perkins Coie-ga kampaniyani moliyalashtirish hisobotlari bo'yicha to'langan umumiy summani oshkor qildi.^[65]

Orbis 2016 yil iyun va noyabr oylari oralig'ida ishga qabul qilindi va Stil shu vaqt ichida 16 ta hisobot tayyorladi, dekabrda esa 17-hisobot qo'shildi.^[66] Hisobotlar Stilning manbalaridan olingan ma'lumotlarga asoslangan "prepublikatsiya eslatmalari" ga o'xshash edi va to'liq nashr etilmadi tekshirilgan va "tugallangan yangiliklar maqolasi".^[67] Stil hujjatning 70-90 foizini to'g'ri deb hisoblaydi,^[68] Simpson tomonidan baham ko'rilgan ko'rinish.^[67]

Simpsonning aytishicha, Stil o'z manbalariga hech qanday pul to'lamagan.^[69][70][71] Tergov muxbiriga ko'ra Jeyn Mayer ning Nyu-Yorker, Orbisda juda ko'p pullik "kollektorlar" mavjud (subsourslar deb ham ataladi)^[12] uning ma'lumotlari ko'pincha o'zlari bilmagan subsours tarmog'idan olingan.^[12] Ushbu subsourslarni to'lash pora sifatida qaralishi yoki mubolag'a bo'lishi mumkinligi sababli, ular to'lanmaydi.^[21] "Stilning so'zlariga ko'ra, uning sub-subsourlari pul to'lamagan va ularning ma'lumotlari Orbis yoki Fusion GPS-ga uzatilayotganligini bilmagan."^[12]

Britaniyalik jurnalistning so'zlariga ko'ra Luqo Xarding, Stilning manbalari yangi emas, balki ishonchli, isbotlangan va tanish manbalar edi.^[72] Govard Blyumning aytishicha, Stil "ko'p yillar davomida sotib olgan va to'lagan sodiqligi va ma'lumoti" manbalariga tayangan.^[73] Keyinchalik Stil Bosh inspektorning tergovchilariga "bu manba tarmog'i [qayta tahrirlangan] davridagi manbalarni o'z ichiga olmaydi va u butunlay davlat xizmatidan nafaqaga chiqqanidan keyin ishlab chiqilgan" deb xabar bergan. Bosh inspektorning hisobotida, shuningdek, "Stilning o'zi o'zining hisobotida biron bir haqiqiy ma'lumotlarning kelib chiqish manbasi bo'lmagan" deb ta'kidlangan.^[42] Bitta manba (D va E ma'lumot manbalari va IG hisobotidagi "1-shaxs") ommaviy ravishda aniqlandi Sergey Millian, go'yoki o'z vatandoshiga ishongan va keyinchalik bu ma'lumotlarni Stilga etkazgan beixtiyor manba. Ushbu ma'lumot 80, 95 va 102 hisobotlarida ishlatilgan.^{[74][42][75][76][77][78]} U hujjat manbai ekanligini rad etadi.^[79][80]

Stil o'z hisobotlarini alohida-alohida Fusion GPS-ga birdan uch betgacha raqamlangan hisobotlar sifatida etkazib berdi.^[8] 2016 yil 20 iyundagi birinchi hisobot Vashingtonga kuryer orqali yuborildi va Fusion GPS-ga qo'lda topshirildi. Fusion-ga ishonchliligini baholashda yordam berish uchun manbalarning nomlari qayta ko'rib chiqildi va tavsiflar bilan almashtirildi.^[21]

Luqo Xarding yozgan:

Dastlab Moskvadan razvedka ma'lumotlarini olish yaxshi o'tdi. Taxminan olti oy davomida - yilning birinchi yarmida Stil Rossiyada nisbatan osonlikcha so'rov o'tkaza oldi. Iyul oyi oxiridan boshlab qiyinlashdi, chunki Trampning Rossiya bilan aloqalari tekshiruv ostida qoldi. Nihoyat, chiroqlar o‘chdi. Kreml yashiringan bir paytda, manbalar jim bo'lib qoldi va axborot kanallari yopildi.^[81]

Stil tez orada "Tramp va Rossiya hukumati o'rtasidagi aloqalarni ko'rsatadigan bezovta qiluvchi ma'lumotlarni" topganini aytdi. Uning manbalariga ko'ra, "Trump kampaniyasi va Kreml o'rtasida o'zaro manfaatli ma'lumotlar almashinuvi mavjud edi".^[82] Xardingning so'zlariga ko'ra, "Stil o'z manbalari xabar bergan kelishuv darajasidan hayratda" va do'stlariga: "Kim uni o'qisa, bu hayotni o'zgartiradigan voqea", deb aytgan.^[68] Stil ochib topgan narsasini "partiya siyosatidan ustun bo'lgan juda katta ahamiyatga ega" narsa deb bildi.^[73] Amerikalik muxbir Xovard Blum Stilning a bo'lish asoslarini tavsifladi hushtakboz: "Boshqa barcha tashvishlar katta yaxshilikdir."^[73]

O'z tashabbusi bilan Stil ma'lumotni Britaniya va Amerika razvedka xizmatlariga etkazishga qaror qildi, chunki u topilmalar masalasi ekanligiga ishongan milliy xavfsizlik ikkala mamlakat uchun.^[23][24] 2020 yil iyun oyida Stil shunday dedi Tereza Mey Britaniya hukumati ularga taqdim etgan dalillarni Trampning Rossiya bilan aloqalari to'g'risida yashirgan va hech qanday harakat qilmagan va bu ham Boris Jonson Parlament tomonidan tayyorlangan ma`lumotlar to'g'risidagi ma'lumotni bostirdi Razvedka va xavfsizlik qo'mitasi. Ushbu hisobot hech qachon nashr etilmagan.^[83]

Simpsonning ko'rsatmalariga ko'ra, Stil "qariyb 20 yil davomida Rossiya bilan bog'liq masalalar ustida ishlab chiqqan bilimlari uchun" yaxshi ishchi obro'siga ega edi. Britaniya razvedkasi,^[84] ga yaqinlashdi Federal qidiruv byurosi chunki u o'sha paytda nomzod bo'lgan Tramp borligidan xavotirda edi shantaj qilingan Rossiya tomonidan,^[85] va u "bu milliy xavfsizlikka tahdidni anglatadimi" degan xavotirga tushdi.^[23] Stil razvedka jamoatchiligiga "AQShning kelgusi mumkin bo'lgan prezidenti Rossiyaning ta'sirida bo'lishi mumkinligini zudlik bilan bilishi kerak edi.^[86]

2016 yil iyul oyining boshlarida Stil Rimda joylashgan FBIning tajribali agenti Maykl Gaetaga qo'ng'iroq qilib, unga topilmalarini ko'rsatishi uchun Londonga kelishini so'radi. U Rimdagi AQSh elchixonasiga tayinlanganligi sababli, Gaeta izlab topdi va sayohat uchun ruxsat oldi Viktoriya Nuland, u o'sha paytda davlat kotibining Evropa va Evroosiyo ishlari bo'yicha yordamchisi bo'lgan. 2016 yil 5-iyulda Londonga kelganida u Stil bilan o'z ofisida uchrashdi,^[85] va unga Stilning 2016 yil 20 iyundagi birinchi hisobotining nusxasi berildi (80-hisobot).^[42] Uning reaktsiyasi "shok va dahshat" edi.^[85] O'qiganlaridan qo'rqib ketgan Gaeta: "Men buni shtab-kvartiraga ko'rsatishim kerak", dedi.^[87]

Keyinchalik Nuland shunday baham ko'rgan edi: "Iyul oyi o'rtalarida, u [Stil] boshqa ishni qilayotganda va tashvishga tushganda, u topgan narsasining ikki-to'rt sahifali qisqa joylarini uzatdi va bizning darhol munosabatimiz:" Bu bizning fikrimizda emas. ' Agar bu erda biron bir nomzod yoki umuman Rossiya Federatsiyasi ta'sir qilishi mumkin degan xavotir bo'lsa, Federal Qidiruv Byurosiga murojaat qilish kerak. Bu Federal Qidiruv Byurosi tekshirishi kerak bo'lgan narsa. "^[88] Ko'p o'tmay, iyulda, hisobot Federal qidiruv byurosining Nyu-Yorkdagi ofisida jinoiy tashkilotlar va uyushgan jinoyatchilik bo'yicha tajribaga ega bo'lgan agentga - aksincha, qarshi kontrrazvedka tekshiruvini olib boradigan noto'g'ri odamga yuborildi.^[89][87] Nensi Lournoning so'zlariga ko'ra, siyosiy yozuvchi Vashington oylik, hisobot "ikki oy davomida" Federal qidiruv byurosining Nyu-Yorkdagi dala ofisida tinim bilmas edi "va" nihoyat Rossiyaning Vashingtondagi FBI shtab-kvartirasida Rossiyani tekshirayotgan qarshi razvedka guruhiga yuborildi. 2016 yil sentyabr oyida.^[90]

2016 yil avgust oyida Federal Qidiruv Byurosi Stildan "qo'lidagi barcha ma'lumotlarni va undan qanday qilib materiallar to'planganligini tushuntirishini va manbalarini aniqlashini so'radi".^[81][82] 2016 yil oktyabr oyida Stil FBIga "manbalarga kirishni ta'rifladi, ammo ismlarini keltirmadi".^[12] 2017 yil 22-avgustga qadar Stil ularga hujjatdagi ayblovlar manbalarining nomlarini taqdim etdi.^[91]

Ayni paytda, iyuldan sentyabrgacha bo'lgan vaqt oralig'ida Washington Post, Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi Direktor Jon Brennan "Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasining o'nlab tahlilchilari va ofitserlaridan iborat maxfiy ishchi guruhi bilan tergovni boshlagan edi NSA Shu bilan birga, u "Rossiya nafaqat 2016 yilgi saylovlarga aralashishga uringan, balki buni Donald Trampni saylash uchun ham qilgan. ... [T] u tergov tarkibiga kirmasidan kamida ikki oy oldin u butun razvedka hamjamiyati ushbu holat to'g'risida ogoh bo'lgandi. "Stil hujjati hozircha juda aniq ekanligini isbotladi", deb yozgan LeTourneau.^[90]

Avgust oyining boshlarida,^[15] Stil Rimga chaqirildi va u erda to'rtta Amerika Federal Qidiruv Byurosining mulozimlariga hisobot to'g'risida to'liq ma'lumot berdi.^[92][93] O'sha paytda u 20 iyun va 26 iyul hisobotlarini topshirdi.^[15]

Stilni qattiq so'roq qilish paytida Federal Qidiruv Byurosi Trump kampaniyasi va Rossiya o'rtasidagi aloqalarni o'zlarining kashfiyotlarini eslatib o'tdi.^[92] va Stildan so'radi Papadopulos, lekin u u haqida hech narsa bilmasligini aytdi.^[21] Agentlar "Saylov kunidan keyin razvedka ma'lumotlarini to'plashni davom ettirish uchun Stilga pul to'lash istiqbollarini ko'tarishdi",^[92] ammo Stil "oxir-oqibat" hujjat "bilan bog'liq har qanday ma'lumot uchun Federal Qidiruv Byurosidan hech qachon to'lov olmagan".^[63] Ma'lumotnomaning keyingi ommaviy chiqarilishi Stil va FQB o'rtasidagi munozaralarni to'xtatdi.^[84] Simpson "Stilga Federal Qidiruv Byurosi pul to'lamagan, balki FBR rasmiylari bilan uchrashish uchun Rimga qilgan sayohati uchun pul to'lagan bo'lishi mumkin" deb guvohlik bergan.^[55][94] Mayerning so'zlariga ko'ra, Stil Federal qidiruv byurosidan Rimga sayohat xarajatlarini qoplashni so'ragan, ammo u hech narsa olmagan.^[21] Keyinchalik Bosh inspektorning hisobotida Federal Qidiruv Byurosi dastlab Stilga Rimga qilgan sayohati uchun 15000 dollar to'lashni taklif qilgani tasdiqlangan, ammo Federal Qidiruv Byurosi Stilni odamning maxfiy manbasi sifatida tashlaganida, chunki u "2016 yil oktyabr oyi oxirida" uchinchi shaxs bilan ma'lumot almashgan (Ona Jons jurnal), to'lov to'xtatildi.^[42] Piter Strzok xabar berdi:

FBI Stilni yopdi "chunki u nazorat qilish muammosi edi. Biz uni yopib qo'ymadik, chunki u o'zini ishlab chiqaruvchi deb o'ylardi." Strzokning so'zlariga ko'ra, Stil o'zining reportajlarini ommaviy axborot vositalari bilan muhokama qilish va Federal qidiruv byurosi bilan aloqalarini oshkor qilish to'g'risidagi qarorlari "dahshatli edi va bu biz qilayotgan ishlarga zarar etkazdi va shubhasiz, u buni qilmasligi kerak edi.^[42] (173-bet)

Stil sentyabr oyida Jonatan Uiner bilan uchrashdi, o'shanda AQSh davlat kotibining xalqaro huquqni muhofaza qilish bo'yicha yordamchisining o'rinbosari, u 2009 yildan beri tanish edi. 2018 yilgi tahririyatda Washington Post,^[95] Ueyner Vashingtondagi uchrashuvi davomida unga Stilning hisobotlarini ko'rib chiqishga ruxsat berilganini, ammo nusxasini saqlab qolmaslik uchun ruxsat berganini esladi: "Men ikki betlik xulosani tayyorladim va uni [Viktoriya] Nuland bilan baham ko'rdim. U menga o'xshab, u o'zini his qildi davlat kotibi ushbu materialdan xabardor bo'lishi kerak ", deb yozgan u. Keyinchalik sentyabr oyida Winer hisobotni muhokama qildi Sidney Blumenthal, shu kabi ma'lumotlarni 1990-yillarda Klinton Oq uyga yaqin bo'lgan munozarali siyosiy faol va sobiq jurnalist Kodi Shirerdan olganini oshkor qildi. Winer yana Stil bilan uchrashdi va sentyabr oyining oxirida Sheirerning hisobotining nusxasini berdi, keyinchalik u "ikkinchi hujjat" deb nomlandi.^[96][97][98]

2016 yil 19 sentyabrda Stilning agenti Stilning oltita hisobotini (80, 94, 95, 100, 101 va 102) jo'natdi. Crossfire dovuli 2016 yil 31-iyuldan beri faoliyat yuritayotgan jamoa. Bu ular va ularning rahbari, direktor yordamchisi o'rinbosari birinchi marta Federal qidiruv byurosining kontrpesion bo'lim, Piter Strzok, Stilning har qanday hisobotini oldi. (100-bet).^[42][99][12] Ba'zi xabarlarda Trampning yaqin doiralari a'zolari haqida so'z boradi. Shu vaqtdan keyin u Federal Qidiruv Byurosi bilan ma'lumot almashishda davom etdi.^[82][81] IG hisobotida aytilishicha, ushbu material "Crossfire Hurricane" tergovining muhim qismiga aylandi va FBI Crossfire bo'roni mavzularidan biri bo'lgan Karter Peyjga qarshi FISA vakolatlarini qidirmoqda ".^[42]

Saylovdan bir necha kun oldin, 2016 yil 28 oktyabrda Komi Kongressga FQB yangi kashf etilgan Hillari Klintonning elektron pochta xabarlarini ko'rib chiqishni boshlaganligi to'g'risida xabar berdi. Simpson va Frits o'zlarining reaktsiyalarini quyidagicha tasvirlab berishdi: "Komining bombardimon hujumi Fusion sheriklarini FTBning Tramp va Rossiya haqidagi tekshiruvlarini fosh qilish uchun qo'llaridan kelganicha harakat qilishlari kerakligi to'g'risida qaror qabul qilishga undadi. Bu Xayri Meri vaqti edi."^[86] Fusion GPS asoschilari 2016 yil 1-noyabrni chalg'itganidan juda xafa bo'lishdi, Nyu-York Tayms maqola "saylovdan bir hafta oldin e'lon qilingan:" Donald Trampni tergov qilish, Federal qidiruv byurosi Rossiya bilan aniq aloqani ko'rmayapti ". Aslida, Rossiya edi saylovga aralashish Trampning g'alaba qozonishiga yordam berish uchun, AQSh razvedkasi hamjamiyati keyinchalik xulosaga keladi ..."^[57]

Keyinchalik Simpson "Stil saylovlar oldidan [Federal qidiruv byurosi] bilan aloqalarini to'xtatdi. Federal qidiruv byurosi Tramp kampaniyasi va Rossiya o'rtasida hech qanday aloqani topmagani va [Federal qidiruv byurosi] siyosiy maqsadlar uchun manipulyatsiya qilinayotganidan xavotirda. Tramp xalqi "."^[100] Stil o'zining hisobotlarini tekshira olmadi, deb hisoblagan Federal qidiruv byurosidan hafsalasi pir bo'lgan edi. Klintonning elektron pochtalari bo'yicha tergov. Ga binoan Mustaqil, Stil borligiga ishondi "cabal "Federal qidiruv byurosi ichida, xususan uning Trampning maslahatchisi bilan bog'langan Nyu-Yorkdagi ofis Rudy Giuliani, chunki u Tramp va Rossiya o'rtasidagi aloqalarni tekshirishga qaratilgan har qanday urinishlarga to'sqinlik qildi.^[24]

DNC, Klinton kampaniyasi va Stil nimalarni bilar edi

Fusion GPS-ning hamkasblari Glenn Simpson va Piter Fritsning so'zlariga ko'ra, ular Stilga ularning oxirgi mijozlari kimligini aytmaganlar, faqat Stil "yuridik firmada ishlayotgani" ni aytishadi,^[21] va ular "unga ushbu asosiy savoldan tashqari hech qanday aniq yurish buyrug'i bermadilar:" Nima uchun janob Tramp bir necha bor eng jiddiy sarmoyadorlar chetlab o'tadigan taniqli korruptsion politsiya davlatida bitimlar tuzishga intildi? ""^[70] Guvohlikda Senatning razvedka qo'mitasi, Simpson "Fusion GPS-ning chet elda aloqalarni o'rnatish g'oyasi - tadqiqot Perkins Coie, DNC yoki Klinton kampaniyasi tomonidan boshqarilmagani" aytdi.^[12]

Jeyn Mayerning ta'kidlashicha, Klinton kampaniyasi Stilni "bilvosita" ish bilan ta'minlaganida, Elias kampaniya va Stil o'rtasida "xavfsizlik devori" rolini o'ynab, "qonuniy to'siq" yaratgan. Shunday qilib, har qanday tafsilotlar himoyalangan advokat - mijozning imtiyozi. "Fusion faqat Eliasga hisobotlar haqida ma'lumot berdi, Simpson Eliasga qog'ozga hech narsa yubormadi - unga og'zaki ma'lumot berildi", deb xabar berdi Mayer.^[21] Adliya vazirligi Karter Peyjni tadqiq qilish uchun FISA orderini olishga arizasida FISC Simpson Stilga Trampning Rossiya bilan aloqalari bo'yicha olib borilgan tadqiqotlar sabablari to'g'risida xabar bermaganligi.^[63] Stil Kongressga "Fusion GPS-da ushlab turilganligi sababli" Klinton kampaniyasi to'lovlarning manbai ekanligini bilmasligini ko'rsatdi.^[101][20] "2016 yil iyul oyi oxirida" tomonidan,^[42] Fusion GPS bilan shartnoma imzolaganidan "bir necha oy o'tgach" Stil DNC va Klinton kampaniyasining asosiy mijozlari ekanligidan xabardor bo'ldi.^[21]

DNC vakili ham aytmadi Tom Peres na "DNC ning yangi rahbariyati edi ... Fusion GPS bilan bog'liq har qanday qarorlarni qabul qilishda qatnashgan va ular Perkins Coie tashkilot bilan ishlayotganidan xabardor emas edilar. "^[59] Perkins Coie vakili, kampaniya va DNC Fusion GPS-dan "tadqiqot olib borish uchun yollanganligini" bilmaganligini aytdi.^[102] Washington Post Elias Fusion GPS-dan qancha tadqiqot olib borganligi aniq emasligini xabar qildi, u kampaniya va DNC bilan bo'lishdi. Ushbu tashkilotlarda Fusion GPS va Steele rollari haqida kim bilgani ham aniq emas, ammo "masalaga yaqin" bo'lgan bir kishi tashkilotlarga "Fusion GPS rolining yuridik firmasi xabar bermagan" dedi.^[58] The New York Times 2017 yil boshida "janob Elias saylovoldi hujjatiga egalik qilganligini rad etganini" ma'lum qildi.^[102][59] Klinton kampaniyasi Stil haqida bilmagan yoki u FTB bilan o'z xulosalarini o'rtoqlashayotgan edi va "Klinton kampaniyasining eng yuqori lavozimli vakili" Jeyn Mayerga "Agar men FTB Trampni tergov qilayotganini bilganimda edi, men uni baqirgan bo'lardim tomlar! "^[4]

Xabar qilinishicha, xavfsizlik devori hattoki kampaniya rahbarlari ham shunchalik samarali bo'lgan Jon Podesta va Robbi Muk Stil Demokratik ish haqi bo'yicha ekanligini bilmas edi Ona Jons bu haqda 2016 yil 31 oktyabrda Stilning ismini keltirmagan maqolasida xabar bergan.^[21] Qachon Ona Jons voqea yuz berdi, Klinton kampaniyasining raisi Jon Podesta, "FTB Trampga qarshi keng qamrovli tergov boshlaganligi haqidagi xabardan hayratda qolganini, ayniqsa, Klinton kampaniyasi tomonidan yozilgan tadqiqotlar bilan xabardor bo'lganini" aytdi. Ular Perkins Koining muxolifat tadqiqotlari uchun mablag 'sarflaganini bilsalar ham, na Podesta va na saylov kampaniyasi menejeri Robbi Muk Stilning Demokratik maoshda ekanligini bilishmagan. Mayerning aytishicha, ularning ikkalasi ham "shu vaqtgacha bu hujjatni o'qimaganmiz" BuzzFeed uni internetga joylashtirdi ".^[21] Uning so'zlariga ko'ra, "Klinton kampaniyasi Kristofer Stil ularning ish haqi [bu [hujjat] matbuotda chop etilmaguncha ularning maoshida bo'lganligini hech qachon bilmagan").^[103] "Yashirin tashviqot qurolidan yiroq, Stil kampaniyada saqlanayotgan sir bo'lib chiqdi."^[21] 2019 yilgi kitobida Fusion GPS asoschilari "... Fuziondan hech kim hech qachon Klinton bilan uchrashmagan yoki u bilan gaplashmagan va uning o'zi "ular kimligini bilmagan".^[57][4]

Filipp Bumpning yozishicha, bu hujjat "hech qachon Klinton kampaniyasining yondashuvidan xabardor bo'lganligi ko'rsatilmagan va bu Tramp inauguratsiya qilinishidan bir oz oldin ommaga oshkor qilinmagan".^[104]

Borliq haqida maslahatlar

Fusion GPS asoschilari Tramp va Rossiyani tadqiq qilganliklarini qanday yashirmaganliklarini aytib berishdi: "Fyuzel va Stil AQSh huquqni muhofaza qilish organlari va yangiliklar ommaviy axborot vositalarini o'zlari ochib bergan materiallar to'g'risida ogohlantirishga harakat qilishdi. ... "va ularning idorasi ma'lumot qidiradigan jurnalistlar uchun" jamoat o'qish zaliga aylandi ". Sentabr oyida ular Stil va jurnalistlar o'rtasida shaxsiy uchrashuv tashkil etishdi. Washington Post, The New York Times, Nyu-Yorker, ABC News va boshqa savdo shoxobchalari. Natijalar umidsizlikka uchradi, chunki saylovlar oldidan bironta ham biron bir hikoya nashr etilmagan.^[57]

Jeyn Mayer "yoz oxirida Fusion Vashingtonda joylashgan Tabard Inn-da Stil va bir nechta milliy xavfsizlik muxbirlari o'rtasida qanday qilib uchrashuvlar o'tkazganini tasvirlab berdi. ... Stil odatdagidek salqin bo'lishiga qaramay, u ruslarning saylovdagi roli haqida xavotirga tushganday tuyuldi. "Mayer uchrashuvlarning birida qatnashdi. Ushbu axborot tashkilotlarining hech biri o'sha paytda ayblovlar haqida hech qanday hikoya qilmagan.^[21]

Faqat ikkita manba saylovlar oldidan fayllar hisobotlaridan kelib chiqqan holda ma'lum bo'lgan ayblovlarni eslatib o'tdi. Stil ikkala muallif bilan ham aloqada bo'lgan. Bu 2016 yil 23-sentabr, Yahoo! Yangiliklar tomonidan maqola Maykl Isikoff Karter Peyjga qaratilgan,^[105] va tomonidan maqola Devid makkajo'xori 2016 yil 31 oktyabrda, saylovdan bir hafta oldin, yilda Ona Jons jurnal.^[82]

Ona Jons hikoya

2016 yilning uchinchi choragiga kelib, ko'plab yangiliklar tashkilotlari jurnalistlar o'rtasida "ochiq sir" deb ta'riflangan ma'lumot varag'i borligini bilishar edi, ammo tasdiqlay olmagan ma'lumotlarini nashr etmaslikni tanladilar.^[8][106] Ona Jons birinchi bo'lib bu ma'lumotnoma borligi va u faqat demokratlar tomonidan moliyalashtirilganligi to'g'risida xabar bergan.^[107][108]

2016 yil oktabrga qadar Stil 33 sahifani (16 ta hisobot) tuzdi va keyin u kashf etgan narsasini uzatdi Devid makkajo'xori, muxbir Ona Jons jurnal. 2016 yil 31 oktyabrda, saylovdan bir hafta oldin, Ona Jons ismini aytmagan sobiq razvedka xodimi Rossiya manbalari asosida hisobot tayyorlagan va FQBga topshirganligi haqida xabar bergan.^[82] Maqolada ba'zi bir hujjatning da'volari oshkor qilindi:

Sobiq razvedkachining rus manbalari bilan suhbatlariga asoslangan birinchi eslatmada "Rossiya rejimi kamida 5 yildan beri TRUMPni rivojlantiradi, qo'llab-quvvatlaydi va yordam beradi. yil. PUTIN tomonidan tasdiqlangan maqsad g'arbiy ittifoqdagi bo'linishlar va bo'linishlarni rag'batlantirish edi. "Tramp" va uning yaqin doiralari Kremldan, shu jumladan uning Demokratik va boshqa siyosiy raqiblari haqida muntazam ravishda razvedka oqimini qabul qilgan ". Rossiya razvedkasi Trampning Moskvaga tashrifi chog'ida "murosa" qilgan va uni "shantaj qilishi" mumkin edi. Shuningdek, Rossiya razvedkasi Xillari Klintonga "Rossiyaga turli tashriflarida bo'lgan xato suhbatlari va telefon qo'ng'iroqlarini ushlab turish" asosida ma'lumotnoma tuzganligi haqida xabar bergan.

— Devid makkajo'xori, "Veteran ayg'oqchi Federal Qidiruv Byurosiga Rossiyaning Donald Trampni o'stirish bo'yicha operatsiyasi haqida da'vo qilgan", Ona Jons (2016 yil 31 oktyabr)^[82]

Saylovdan keyingi tadbirlar

2016 yil 8-noyabr kuni Tramp saylangandan so'ng Demokratik mijoz mijozning tergovi uchun pul to'lashni to'xtatdi, ammo Stil Fusion GPS-ning hujjati ustida ishlashni davom ettirdi.^[8] Ga binoan Mustaqil, o'sha paytda Simpson "tergovni davom ettirish uchun o'z pulini sarf qilgani" xabar qilingan.^[22] Ga binoan The New York Times, saylovlardan so'ng Stilning hujjati Vashingtonning "eng yomon saqlanadigan sirlaridan" biriga aylandi va jurnalistlar ayblovlarni tekshirish uchun ishladilar.^[8]

2016 yil 18 noyabrda respublikachi senator Jon Makkeyn Kreml va Tramp o'rtasidagi taxminiy aloqalar to'g'risida xabardor bo'lgan, Britaniyaning Moskvadagi sobiq elchisi bilan uchrashdi Ser Endryu Vud da Halifax xalqaro xavfsizlik forumi Kanadada. Vud Makkeynga Tramp haqida to'plangan materiallar mavjudligi haqida gapirib berdi,^[109] va shuningdek, Stilning professionalligi va halolligi uchun kafolat berdi.^[110]

Simpsonning 2017 yil 22 avgustda bergan ma'lumotlariga ko'ra, Senatning Adliya qo'mitasi, Stil va Devid J. Kramer, Makkeynning uzoq yillik yordamchisi va AQSh Davlat departamentining sobiq rasmiysi Arizona shtati universiteti, Galifaks forumida bir-biri bilan uchrashdi va hujjatlarni muhokama qildi. Kramer Stilga Makkeyn "Federal Qidiruv Byurosida bu haqda savollar bermoqchi" ekanligini aytdi. ... Biz istagan barcha narsa hukumat o'z ishini bajarishi edi va biz ilgari bergan ma'lumotlar FTB rahbariyati darajasiga ko'tarilganmi yoki yo'qmi, degan xavotirda edik. "^[111]

Stil Fusion GPS bilan 16 ta hisobotning qattiq nusxasini Makkeynga etkazib berishga kelishib olgan edi,^[66] Makkeyn dekabr oyining boshida Kramerdan olgan.^[8] 9-dekabr kuni Makkeyn FBI direktori bilan shaxsan uchrashdi Jeyms Komi va unga hujjatning nusxasini berdi.^{[109][48][112]} 2019 yil 25 martda senator Lindsi Grem, Makkeynning yaqin do'sti, Trampning Makkeynga qarshi hujumlariga zid bo'lib, Makkeyn unga hujjatni ko'rsatganda, Makkeynni FBIga bu ma'lumotni berishga undaganligini va Makkeyn munosib harakat qilganini aniqladi.^[113] Grem Tramp bilan qanday to'qnash kelganini quyidagicha tasvirlab berdi: "Senator Makkeyn bunga loyiqdir. Makkeyn orasida ba'zi bir axlatni olib, saylovdan keyin Trampning orqasidan ketmoqchi bo'lganlar ham bo'lgan. Ammo men prezidentga bu Jon Makkeyn emasligini aytdim".^[114] Keyinchalik Komi Trampning sheriklari va Moskva o'rtasidagi ehtimoliy aloqalar bo'yicha qarshi razvedka tekshiruvlari olib borilayotganini tasdiqladi.^[66]

Makkeynga 16 ta hisobotini topshirgandan so'ng, Stil ko'proq ma'lumot oldi va 13-dekabr kuni yozilgan ikki sahifali "Dekabr xotirasi" ni tuzdi, unda asosan Trampning shaxsiy advokati Maykl Koenga qarshi ayblovlar bor edi, keyinchalik Koen buni rad etdi.^[115][116] 2017 yil aprel oyidagi sud arizasida Stil o'zining so'nggi hisobotining nusxasini "o'zining rasmiy vakolatlarini bajaruvchi Buyuk Britaniya hukumatining milliy xavfsizlik xizmatining yuqori lavozimli xizmatchisiga maxfiy asosda qog'oz shaklida" bergani to'g'risida ilgari xabar qilinmagan ma'lumotlarni oshkor qildi, chunki bu " AQSh va Buyuk Britaniyaning milliy xavfsizligiga ta'sir ko'rsatdi ".^[66] Simpson ham, Stil ham hujjatlarni taqdim etganligini rad etishdi BuzzFeed.^[117] Rossiyalik tadbirkor Aleksey Gubarevning tuhmat to'g'risidagi da'vosidagi kashfiyot jarayonidagi muhrlanmagan hujjatlar Jon Makkeynning sherigi Devid Kramer bu hujjatni berganligini aniqladi BuzzFeed "saylovlardan bir necha hafta o'tgach, 2016 yil dekabrida",^[118][6] Fritsh "noto'g'ri maslahat" deb atagan narsada Salom Meri pas. Ma'lumotlar omma oldida bo'lishi hech qachon mo'ljallanmagan edi, chunki u tugallanmagan xom razvedka va "murosa manbalari va usullari" bo'lishi mumkin edi.^[6] Stil, shuningdek, manba tarmog'ining xavfsizligidan xavotirda edi va agar u Tramp saylovda g'alaba qozonsa, FQBning yangi direktori va Tramp tomonidan tayinlangan boshqa agentlik rahbarlari Trampga sodiqroq bo'lishlari mumkin "va ularga qarshi choralar ko'rishga qaror qilishlari mumkinligidan xavotir bildirdi. Stil va uning manbalari tarmog'i ".^[42]

Obama va Trampning brifinglari

2017 yil 5 yanvarda AQShning to'rtta razvedka idoralari rahbarlari Prezidentga ma'lumot berishdi Barak Obama va vitse-prezident Jo Bayden Rossiyaning saylovga aralashuvi va hujjatning mavjudligi va uning da'volari haqida.^{[119][120][121]}

Peshindan keyin^[42] 2017 yil 6-yanvarda saylangan Prezident Tramp va uning o'tish guruhi Trump Tower-da xuddi shunday brifing o'tkazdi.^[122] Maxfiy xizmatning to'rtta boshlig'i ham Tramp va uning o'tish guruhi bilan uchrashdi. Ular Milliy razvedka direktori Jeyms Klapper, Federal qidiruv byurosi direktori Jeyms Komi, Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi direktori Jon Brennan va NSA direktori admiral edi. Mayk Rojers. Ular Trampga Rossiyadagi saylovlarga aralashuv haqida xabar berishdi,^[123][124] va Komi ularga "Stilning Rossiyada Klintonda ham, saylangan prezidentda ham kamsituvchi ma'lumotlar borligini ko'rsatuvchi biron bir xabar" haqida gapirib berdi.^[42]

Then, according to a pre-arranged plan, Brennan, Clapper, and Rogers left, and Comey then asked to speak with Trump alone. Comey then informed Trump of the dossier and its allegations about salacious tapes held by the Russians. Comey later reported he was very nervous. The previous day Comey was told to "be very careful", "choose your words carefully", and then "get outta there". Trump became very defensive, and Comey described the meeting as "really weird".^[123][124] Trump later expressed that he felt James Comey was trying to blackmail him at the meeting in Trump Tower, held two weeks before the inauguration.^[122] In April 2018, Comey said he did not inform Trump the dossier was partly funded by Democrats because that "wasn't necessary for my goal, which was to alert him that we had this information".^[125][126]

The Mueller Report, published on April 18, 2019, contains a footnote that suggests that Trump may have heard that Russia had incriminating tapes of his behavior. On October 30, 2016, Michael Cohen had received a text from Giorgi Rtskhiladze reporting that he had successfully stopped the "flow of tapes from Russia". Rtskhiladze told investigators that these were compromising tapes of Trump, and Cohen told investigators he had spoken to Trump about the issue. Rtskhiladze later told investigators "he was told the tapes were fake, but he did not communicate that to Cohen".^[34]

On December 14, 2018, the FBI released a document called "Annex A", which was "part of [the] Russia dossier summary" used to brief Trump and Obama.^[127] The FBI withheld parts of the synopsis on the grounds that it remained classified and "because it pertains to ongoing investigations or court proceedings, originated with a confidential source or describes confidential investigative techniques or procedures".^[127]

Two days after the publication of the dossier on January 10, 2017, Jeyms Klapper issued a statement describing the leaks in the press about their Trump Tower meeting with Trump as damaging to U.S. national security.^[128] The statement also included the non-committal wording that the U.S. intelligence community "has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions".^[129] This contradicted Trump's previous claim that Clapper had said the information in the dossier was false; Clapper's statement actually said the intelligence community had made no judgment on the truth of the information.^[129]

James Comey had disagreed with Clapper's wording, but Clapper's wording remained unchanged. Comey later told the Office of the Inspector General of his concerns at that time, because he believed the dossier to be more reliable than indicated in Clapper's non-committal statement:

... I worry that it may not be best to say "The IC has not made any judgment that the information in the document is reliable." I say that because we HAVE concluded that the source [Steele] is reliable and has a track record with us of reporting reliable information; we have some visibility into his source network, some of which we have determined to be sub-sources in a position to report on such things; and much of what he reports in the current document is consistent with and corroborative of other reporting included in the body of the main IC report. That said, we are not able to sufficiently corroborate the reporting to include in the body of the [ICA] report.^[42]

Publication by BuzzFeed yangiliklari

On January 10, 2017, CNN reported that classified documents presented to Obama and Trump the previous week included allegations that Russian operatives possess "compromising personal and financial information" about Trump. CNN said it would not publish specific details on the reports because it had not "independently corroborated the specific allegations".^[123][130] Following the CNN report,^[131] BuzzFeed published a 35-page draft dossier that it said was the basis for the briefing, including unverified claims that Russian operatives had collected "embarrassing material" involving Trump which could be used to blackmail him. BuzzFeed said the information included "specific, unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations of contact between Trump aides and Russian operatives".^{[11][132][133][134]}

The New York Times commented: "Mr. Steele has made clear to associates that he always considered the dossier to be raw intelligence —not established facts, but a starting point for further investigation."^[27] Christopher Burrows, co-founder of Orbis Business Intelligence, does not consider it a "dossier", but "information that is referred to as 'raw intelligence' in intelligence circles. ... a mixture of knowledge, rumor and hearsay. ... [A]n intelligence agency would enrich the findings with data, test probabilities and write analyses. It's an elaborate process. But Steele is not an intelligence agency."^[15]

BuzzFeed was harshly criticized by several mainstream media outlets for releasing the draft dossier without verifying its allegations.^{[130][17][18]} Vashington Post sharhlovchi Margaret Sallivan called it "scurrilous allegations dressed up as an intelligence report meant to damage Donald Trump",^[135] esa The New York Times noted that the publication sparked a debate centering on the use of unsubstantiated information from anonymous sources.^[136] BuzzFeed's executive staff said the materials were newsworthy because they were "in wide circulation at the highest levels of American government and media" and argued that this justified public release.^[137] Sudyasi Kolumbiya okrugining yuqori sudi agreed with this reasoning when he threw out a libel suit against Steele and Orbis Business Intelligence.^{[138][139][140]}

The draft dossier's publication by BuzzFeed has always been defended by Jek Shafer,^[141] Politico's senior media writer, as well as by Richard Tofel ning ProPublica va Columbia Journalism Review. Shafer defended the public's right to know about the allegations against Trump, and saw a parallel in Judge Ungaro's ruling in the defamation suit filed by Aleksej Gubarev.^[19][142] Ungaro wrote that the "privilege exists to protect the media while they gather information needed for the public to exercise effective oversight of the government." She also noted that, before the FBI received any reports from Steele, they had "already opened a counterintelligence investigation into links between Russia and the Trump campaign."^[143]

In relation to a defamation lawsuit filed by Gubarev against BuzzFeed, regarding their publication of the draft dossier, Katta magistr Barbara Fonteyn said Steele was "in many respects in the same position as a whistle-blower" because of his actions "in sending part of the dossier to Senator John McCain and a senior government national security official, and in briefing sections of the US media." She said that "it was not known who provided the dossier to BuzzFeed but Mr Steele's evidence was that he was 'horrified and remains horrified' that it was published at all, let alone without substantial redactions."^[144]

The founders of Fusion GPS felt so alarmed by what sources reported to Steele that they have defended the fact that they and Steele used intermediaries to pass dossier content to the authorities, but, regarding the publication by BuzzFeed, if it had been up to them, "Steele's reporting never would have seen the light of day."^[13] They were also alarmed that the leak of the draft dossier would endanger sources, and Glenn Simpson immediately phoned Ken Bensinger at BuzzFeed: "Take those fucking reports down right now! You are going to get people killed!"^[14]

Steele wrote:

I wonder if BuzzFeed have reflected on the lives and livelihoods they put at risk by publishing the dossier, or the shutter it has drawn down on any further collection efforts on this issue and others by anybody or any government agency. In my view BuzzFeed did the Kremlin's work for them because they were determined not to lose the scoop entirely after CNN broke the original story. One of the most irresponsible journalistic acts.^[145]

Christopher Burrows said: "We didn't expect the findings on Russia to reach the public."^[15]

Formatlash

Qachon BuzzFeed published the 35-page dossier in January 2017, the individual reports were one to three pages long, numbered, and page numbers 1–35 had been handwritten at the bottom. All but one had a typed date at the bottom. Each of the first 16 reports was assigned a typed number in the heading between 80 and 135, but the numeric order didn't always match the chronological order. The 17th report, known as the "December memo", was numbered 166.^[146] Of the original reports numbered 1–166, only certain reports were used for the dossier, and it is unknown what happened with the content of the other reports: "For example, the first report is labeled as '080', with no indication given as to where the original 79 antecedents might have gone. The second report is then labeled '086', creating yet another mystery as to 81 through 85, and what content they might contain that would otherwise bolster or contextualize what came before or what follows."^[147]

Each report started with a page heading in the same style as the first one shown here:

Mualliflik

The dossier is based on information from witting and unwitting noma'lum manbalar known to counterintelligence specialist Kristofer Stil.^[7]

Kristofer Stil

Qachon CNN reported the existence of the dossier on January 10, 2017,^[123][148] it did not name the author of the dossier, but revealed that he was British. Steele concluded that his anonymity had been "fatally compromised", and, realizing it was "only a matter of time until his name became public knowledge", fled into hiding with his family in fear of "a prompt and potentially dangerous backlash against him from Moscow".^[149][150] His friends later reported that he feared assassination by Russians.^[151] The Wall Street Journal revealed Steele's name the next day, on January 11.^[152] Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, for whom Steele worked at the time the dossier was authored, and its director Christopher Burrows, a counterterrorism specialist,^[51] would not confirm or deny that Orbis had produced the dossier.^[148][8] On March 7, 2017, as some members of the AQSh Kongressi were expressing interest in meeting with or hearing testimony from Steele, he reemerged after weeks in hiding, appearing publicly on camera and stating, "I'm really pleased to be back here working again at the Orbis's offices in London today."^[153]

Called by the media a "highly regarded Kremlin expert" and "one of MI6's greatest Russia specialists", Steele formerly worked for the British intelligence agency MI6 for 22 years, including four years at the British embassy in Moscow,^[7] and headed MI6's Russia Desk for three years at the end of his MI6 career. He entered MI6 in 1987, directly after his graduation from Kembrij universiteti.^[154] He currently works for Orbis Business Intelligence Ltd, a private intelligence company he co-founded in London.^[155][156]

Sir Andrew Wood, the former British ambassador to Moscow, has vouched for Steele's reputation.^[24] He views Steele as a "very competent professional operator ... I take the report seriously. I don't think it's totally implausible." He also said "the report's key allegation—that Trump and Russia's leadership were communicating via secret back channels during the presidential campaign—was eminently plausible".^[157] FBI investigators reportedly treat Steele "as a peer", whose experience as a trusted Russia expert has included assisting the Justice Department, British prime ministers, and at least one U.S. president.^[92]

Steele's biases and motivations toward Trump appear to have changed over time. Starting in 2007, many years before he started his opposition research on Trump, he repeatedly met Ivanka Trump over several years, had a "friendly relationship" with her, and was "favorably disposed" to the Trump family. They even discussed the possibility of the Trump Organization using the services of Orbis Business Intelligence, but no arrangements were made.^[158][159] Simpson has also confirmed that "there was no pre-existing animus toward Trump by Steele or Fusion."^[160]

Later, as Steele was preparing the dossier before the 2016 election, Bryus Ohr said Steele told him he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president",^[161] attitudes which have been described by Julian Sanches as "entirely natural, not suggestive of preexisting bias", considering Steele believed his own reporting.^[46] Steele has disputed Ohr's statement, and he told interviewers for Inspector General Horowitz that Ohr's wording was a paraphrase of his sentiments and not an exact quote, and the IG Report continues: "Steele told us that based on what he learned during his research he was concerned that Trump was a national security risk and he had no particular animus against Trump otherwise." (Footnote 427)^[42] Steele told the FBI that he "did not begin his investigation with any bias against Trump, but based on the information he learned during the investigation became very concerned about the consequences of a Trump presidency." (p. 193)^[42]

Steele first became a maxfiy inson manbai (CHS) for the FBI in 2013 in connection with the investigation in the 2015 FIFA korruptsiya ishi, but he considered the relationship as contractual. He said the relationship "was never really resolved and both sides turned a blind eye to it. It was not really ideal."^[12] Keyinchalik Crossfire Hurricane tergovi bo'yicha Bosh inspektorning hisoboti discusses "divergent expectations about Steele's conduct in connection with his election reporting", as Steele considered his first duty to his paying clients, and not to the FBI. The Inspector General's report states that "Steele contends that he was never a CHS for the FBI but rather that his consulting firm had a contractual relationship with the FBI." (Footnote 200) Steele said "he never recalled being told that he was a CHS and that he never would have accepted such an arrangement, ..." This divergence in expectations was a factor that "ultimately resulted in the FBI formally closing Steele as a CHS in November 2016 (although ... the FBI continued its relationship with Steele through Ohr)."^[42]

Steele's sources

The Inspector General's report stated that "Steele himself was not the originating source of any of the factual information in his reporting."^[42] Instead, "Steele relied on a primary sub-source (Primary Sub-source) for information, and this Primary Sub-source used a network of [further] sub-sources to gather the information that was relayed to Steele."^[162]

In January 2017, the primary sub-source, later identified as Russian-trained Ukrainian attorney Igor Danchenko,^[36] was interviewed for three days by the FBI, and he said that Steele misstated or exaggerated certain information.^[28] The FBI found that Igor Danchenko, the Primary sub-source, was "truthful and cooperative",^[42][36] but the Supervisory Intel Analyst said that "it was his impression that the Primary Sub-source may not have been 'completely truthful' and may have been minimizing certain aspects of what he/she told Steele".^[42]

In July 2020, Danchenko was unmasked after declassification of the interview report by Attorney General Uilyam P. Barr, who "has repeatedly been accused of abusing his powers to help Mr. Trump politically", had ordered the declassification, a move that was criticized by former law enforcement officials as an unmasking that could endanger other sources and make the FBI's work harder. Lindsey Graham had also "asked the F.B.I. to declassify the interview report".^[36]

Information about Danchenko's network of sources was provided to the FISA court:

Ultimately, the initial drafts provided to [Justice Department] management, the read copy, and the final application submitted to the FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] contained a description of the source network that included the fact that Steele relied upon a Primary Sub-source who used a network of sub-sources, and that neither Steele nor the Primary Sub-source had direct access to the information being reported. The drafts, read copy, and final application also contained a separate footnote on each sub-source with a brief description of his/her position or access to the information he/she was reporting.^[162]

BBC muxbir Pol Vud wrote that Steele had "20 to 30" sources for the dossier.^[163]

On October 28, 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported that one of Steele's sources (which the FBI labelled as "Source 3") was Olga Galkina, a Russian public-relations worker.^[164]

Da'volar

Prezident Donald Tramp Rossiya prezidenti bilan Vladimir Putin da 2018 summit yilda Xelsinki, Finlyandiya, on July 16, 2018

The dossier contains far more allegations than are presented below, but this article can deal with only those which have been mentioned in multiple reliable sources.

The veracity of allegations can vary widely, with some allegations publicly confirmed,^[29][30] others unconfirmed,^[165] lekin, ko'ra Jeyms Klapper va Fox News mezbon Shepard Smit, none are disproven.^[166][167]

Trump and Putin have repeatedly denied the allegations, and Trump has labeled the dossier "discredited", "debunked", "fictitious", and "fake news".^{[25][168][169]}

Below, the allegations are simply presented as they are, but in the section after this one, the widely varying verification status for a number of allegations is examined, sometimes with conflicting reports for or against their veracity, including whether some sources have rejected them.

Each allegation should be read as "Sources allege ... that (and then the allegation).

Cultivation of Trump

• ... that "Russian authorities" had cultivated Trump "for at least 5 years", and that the operation was "supported and directed" by Putin.^[81][31] (Report 80)
• ... that the Russian government's support for Trump was originally conducted by the Tashqi Ishlar Vazirligi, keyin Federal xavfsizlik xizmati (FSB), and was eventually directly handled by the Russian presidency because of its "growing significance over time".^[170][9] (Report 130)

The dossier describes two different Russian operations. The first was an attempt, lasting many years, to find ways to influence Trump, probably not so much "to make Mr. Trump a knowing agent of Russia", but most likely to make him a source the Russians could use. This operation utilized kompromat (Russian: short for "compromising material") and proposals of business deals. The second operation was very recent and involved contacts with Trump's representatives during the campaign to discuss the hacking of the DNC and Podesta.^[8]

Conspiracy, co-operation, and back channel communication

• ... that there was an extensive and "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership",^[171] with information willingly exchanged in both directions.^[172] That this co-operation was "sanctioned at the 'highest level' and involved Russian diplomatic staff based in the US".^[172] That the Trump campaign used "moles within DNC as well as hackers in the US and Russia".^[172] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that Trump had "so far declined various sweetener real estate business deals", but had "accepted a regular flow of intelligence from the Kremlin", notably on his political rivals.^[48][173] (Report 80)
• ... that Trump associates had established "an intelligence exchange [with the Kremlin] for at least 8 years". That Trump and his team had delivered "intelligence on the activities, business and otherwise, in the US of leading Russian oligarchs and their families", as requested by Putin.^{[170][174][175]} (Report 97)

Why Russia supports Trump

• ... that a major goal of the Russians in supporting Trump was "to upset the liberal international status quo, including on Ukraine-related sanctions, which was seriously disadvantaging the country".^[170][175] (Report 130)
• ... that Putin aimed to spread "discord and disunity" within the United States and between Western allies, whom he saw as a threat to Russia's interests.^[23][176] (Report 80)
• ... that "TRUMP was viewed as divisive in disrupting the whole US political system; anti-Establishment; and a pragmatist with whom they could do business." That Trump would remain a divisive force even if not elected.^[170][175] (Report 130)

Changing relationships

• ... that "there had been talk in the Kremlin of TRUMP being forced to withdraw from the presidential race altogether as a result of recent events, ostensibly on grounds of his state and unsuitability for high office."^[175] (Report 100)
• ... Tramp lageri Putinni nafaqat Klintonni kuchsizlantirish va Trampni qo'llab-quvvatlash, balki "AQSh hukumati va demokratik tuzumiga putur etkazish" uchun harakat qilayotganini anglaganidan keyin g'azablangan va g'azablangan.^[175] (102-hisobot)

Kompromat and blackmail: Trump

• ... that Trump "hated" Obama so much that when he stayed in the Presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow,^[21][177] he employed "a number of prostitutes to perform a 'golden showers ' (urination) show in front of him"^{[132][31][178]} in order to defile the bed used by the Obamas on an earlier visit. The alleged incident from 2013 was reportedly filmed and recorded by the FSB^[179] as kompromat.^[180][181] (Report 80)
• ... that Trump was vulnerable to shantaj from Russian authorities^[73][170] for paying pora and engaging in unorthodox and embarrassing sexual behavior over the years,^{[132][179][182]} and that the authorities were "able to blackmail him if they so wished".^{[132][179][182][183]} (Reports 80, 95, 97, 113)
• ... that the Kremlin had promised Trump they would not use the kompromat collected against him "as leverage, given high levels of voluntary co-operation forthcoming from his team".^[170][184] (Report 97)
• ... that Trump had explored the real estate sectors in Sankt-Peterburg and Moscow, "but in the end TRUMP had had to settle for the use of extensive sexual services there from local prostitutes rather than business success".^[180][181] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that witnesses to his "sex parties in the city" had been "'silenced' i.e. bribed or coerced to disappear."^[180][181] (Report 113)
• ... that Trump had paid bribes in St. Petersburg "to further his [business] interests".^[180][181] (Report 113)
• ... that Aras Agalarov, "would know most of the details of what the Republican presidential candidate had got up to" in St. Petersburg.^[181] (Report 113)
• ... that Trump associates did not fear "the negative media publicity surrounding alleged Russian interference", because it distracted attention from his "business dealings in China and other emerging markets", which involved "large bribes and kickbacks" which could be devastating if revealed.^[72][185] (Hisobot 95)

Kompromat: Clinton

Dmitriy Peskov (2010-yillar)

• ... that Putin ordered the maintenance of a secret dossier on Hillary Clinton, with content dating back to the time of her husband's presidency. The dossier comprised eavesdropped conversations, either from bugging devices yoki dan phone intercepts; it did not contain "details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior", but focused more on "things she had said which contradicted her current positions on various issues".^[170][82] (Report 80)
• ... that the Clinton dossier had been collated by the FSB^[170][82] va tomonidan boshqarilgan Dmitriy Peskov, Putin's press secretary.^[179][23] (Report 80)

Kremlin pro-Trump and anti-Clinton

• ... that Putin feared and hated Hillari Klinton.^[186][187] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that there was a "Kremlin campaign to aid TRUMP and damage CLINTON".^[172][171] (Reports 95, 100)
• ... Putinning aralashuv operatsiyasida "CLINTONni zaiflashtirish va TRUMPni kuchaytirish maqsadi" bo'lganligi.^[175] (102-hisobot)

Key roles of Manafort, Cohen, and Page

Pol Manafort mug shot (2018)

Maykl Koen (2011)

• ... that then-Trump campaign manager Pol Manafort had "managed" a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation between [the Trump campaign] and the Russian leadership", and that he used Trump's foreign policy advisor, Karter sahifasi, and others, "as intermediaries".^[186][5] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that Page had "conceived and promoted" the timing of the release of hacked emails by WikiLeaks^{[42][188][176][187]} for the purpose of swinging supporters of Bernie Sanders "away from Hillary CLINTON and across to TRUMP".^[188][187] (Hisobotlar 95, 102)
• ... that Page was informed by Igor Divyekin, a senior Kremlin Internal Affairs official, "that the Russians had kompromat on Clinton and Trump, and allegedly added that Trump 'should bear this in mind'."^[172] (Report 94)
• ... that Cohen played a "key role" in the Trump–Russia relationship^[9] by maintaining a "covert relationship with Russia",^{[189][190][191]} tartibga solish cover-ups and "deniable cash payments",^[115][66] and that his role had grown after Manafort had left the campaign.^[192][188] (Reports 134, 135, 136, 166)
• ... that "COHEN now was heavily engaged in a cover up and damage limitation operation in the attempt to prevent the full details of TRUMP's relationship with Russia being exposed."^[188][175] (Report 135)

DNC email hack, leaks, and misinformation

• ... that Russia was responsible for the DNC elektron xakerlari^[170][74] and the recent appearance of the stolen DNC emails on WikiLeaks,^[170][193] va WikiLeaks-dan foydalanish sababi "ishonarli inkor etish ".^{[194][115][195]} (Hisobot 95)
• ... that "the operation had been conducted with the full knowledge and support of TRUMP and senior members of his campaign team."^[9][194] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that after the emails had been forwarded to WikiLeaks, it was decided to not leak more, but to engage in misinformation: "Rather the tactics would be to spread rumours and misinformation about the content of what already had been leaked and make up new content."^[5] (Report 101)
• ... that Page had "conceived and promoted" the idea of [the Russians] oqish The stolen DNC emails ga WikiLeaks davomida 2016 yilgi Demokratik milliy konventsiya.^[188][176] (Hisobotlar 95, 102)
• ... bu sahifa elektron pochta orqali tarqalishini "Berni SANDERS tarafdorlarini Hillari KLINTONdan va TRUMP tomon burib yuborish uchun" mo'ljallangan.^[188][187] (102-hisobot)
• ... that the hacking of the DNC servers was performed by Romanian hackers ultimately controlled by Putin and paid by both Trump and Putin.^[115][66] (Hisobot 166)
• ... that Cohen, together with three colleagues, secretly met with Kremlin officials in the Prague offices of Rossotrudnichestvo 2016 yil avgust oyida,^{[196][170][116]} u xakerlarga "rad etilishi mumkin bo'lgan naqd to'lovlarni" tashkil qilgan va "xakerlik operatsiyasining barcha izlarini yashirishga" intilgan;^[115][66] as well as "cover up ties between Trump and Russia, including Manafort's involvement in Ukraine".^[9] (Hisobotlar 135, 166)

Kickbacks and quid pro quo agreements to lift sanctions

Viktor Yanukovich (2013)

• ... that Viktor Yanukovich, the former pro-Russian President of Ukraine, had told Putin he had been making supposedly untraceable^[9] zarba payments to Manafort while he was Trump's campaign manager.^[194] (Report 105)
• ... that in return for Russia's leaking the stolen documents to WikiLeaks, "the TRUMP team had agreed to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue and to raise US/NATO defense commitments in the Baltics and Eastern Europe to deflect attention away from Ukraine, a priority for PUTIN who needed to cauterise the subject."^[186][194] (Hisobot 95)
• ... that Page had secretly met Rosneft rais Igor Sechin in Moscow on "either 7 yoki 8 July",^[172] together with a "senior Kremlin Internal Affairs official, DIVYEKIN."^{[197][175][170][198][199]} (Reports 95, 135, 166)
• ... that Sechin "offered PAGE/TRUMP's associates the brokerage of up to a 19 per cent (privatised) stake in Rosneft" (worth about $11 billion) in exchange for Trump lifting the Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalar after his election.^{[197][175][170][198][199]} (Reports 94, 166)

Cultivation of various U.S. political figures

• ... that the Kremlin had been "supporting various US political figures", and had funded Moscow visits by Lyndon Larush vakillari, Jil Shteyn, Karter sahifasi va Maykl Flinn, and was satisfied with the outcome.^[187][79] (Report 101)

Russian spy withdrawn

• ... that Russia had hastily withdrawn from Washington their diplomat Mikhail Kalugin (misspelled as "Kulagin"), whose prominent role in the interference operation should remain hidden.^{[174][200][201]} (Report 111)

Use of botnets and porn traffic by hackers

• ... that Aleksej Gubarev's "XBT/Webzilla and its affiliates had been using botnets and porn traffic to transmit viruses, plant bugs, steal data and conduct 'altering operations' against the Democratic Party leadership"^[202] and that Gubarev had been coerced by the FSB and was a significant player.^[203] (Hisobot 166)

Veracity and corroboration status of specific allegations

Simpson has described his own and Steele's confidence in Steele's work: "Nothing that I have seen disproves anything in the dossier. Which isn't to say I think it's all true. I don't think Chris thinks it's all true, either. But there's a difference between things being fake or a hoax or a fraud or a lie and things being incorrect."^[12]

The Senatning razvedka qo'mitasi wrote that the FBI made "efforts to corroborate the information in the dossier memos, but the Committee found that attempt lacking in both thoroughness and rigor". The FBI stopped all efforts to corroborate the dossier in May 2017 when the Special Counsel's Office took over the Russia investigation.^[12]

The following content describes how some allegations have been corroborated, while others remain unverified, with sometimes conflicting reports for or against their veracity.

Cultivation of Trump through time

Source(s) for Report 80 (June 2016) alleged that the Kremlin had been cultivating Trump for "at least five years".

Luqo Xarding writes that documents show Chexoslovakiya spied on Trump during the 1970s and 1980s, when he was married to Ivana Tramp, his Czechoslovakia-born first wife. Harding writes that the Czechoslovakian government spied on Trump because of his political ambitions and notability as a businessman. It is known that there were close ties between Czechoslovakia's StB va SSSR "s KGB.^[204]

Harding also describes how, already since 1987, the Soviet Union was interested in Trump. Uning kitobida Kelishuv, Harding asserts that the "top level of the Soviet diplomatic service arranged his 1987 Moscow visit. With assistance from the KGB." Then-KGB head Vladimir Kryuchkov "wanted KGB staff abroad to recruit more Americans." Harding proceeds to describe the KGB's cultivation process, and posits that they may have opened a file on Trump as early as 1977, when he married Czech model Ivana Zelnickova; the Soviet spies may have closely observed and analyzed the couple from that time on.^[205][206]

Jonathan Chait has written that 1987 is a year where Russians courted and praised Trump when they invited him to consider building in Moscow. He then visited Moscow in July 1987, and was likely under surveillance, but he did not build anything.^[207]

Russian assistance to the Trump campaign

On January 6, 2017, the Milliy razvedka direktorining idorasi (ODNI) released the intelligence community assessment ning Rossiyaning 2016 yilgi AQSh saylovlariga aralashuvi. It stated that Russian leadership favored Trump over Clinton, and that Putin personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's electoral chances and "undermine public faith in the US democratic process", as well as ordering cyber attacks on the Democratic and Republican parties.^[208] John Brennan and James Clapper testified to Congress that Steele's dossier played no role in the intelligence community assessment,^[209][210] testimony which was reaffirmed by an April 2020 bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report. The committee found that the Steele dossier was not used by the assessment to "support any of its analytic judgments".^[211] In a December 2020 interview with Kris Uolles of Fox News, Brennan said: "The Steele dossier was not used in any way to undergird the judgments that came out of the intelligence community assessment about the Russian actions in the 2016 election... There was so much other evidence and intelligence to support those judgments."^[45]

The Myullerning hisoboti backed "Steele's central claim that the Russians ran a 'sweeping and systematic' operation ... to help Trump win".^[7] James Comey said:

The bureau began an effort after we got the Steele dossier to try and see how much of it we could replicate. That work was ongoing when I was fired. Some of it was consistent with our other intelligence, the most important part. The Steele dossier said the Russians are coming for the American election. It's a huge effort. It has multiple goals ... And that was true.^[212][117]

Qonunbuzarlik has noted that the "Mueller investigation has clearly produced public records that confirm pieces of the dossier. And even where the details are not exact, the general thrust of Steele's reporting seems credible in light of what we now know about extensive contacts between numerous individuals associated with the Trump campaign and Russian government officials."^[213]

Newsweek said "the dossier's main finding, that Russia tried to prop up Trump over Clinton, was confirmed by" the ODNI assessment.^[31] ABC News stated that "some of the dossier's broad implications—particularly that Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an operation to boost Trump and sow discord within the U.S. and abroad—now ring true."^[23]

Yilda Nyu-Yorker, Jane Mayer has said the allegation that Trump was favored by the Kremlin, and that they offered Trump's campaign dirt on Clinton, has proven true.^[21] Mayer also writes that the CIA had a Russian government official working as "a human source inside the Russian government during the campaign, who provided information that dovetailed with Steele's reporting about Russia's objective of electing Trump and Putin's direct involvement in the operation."^[4] The spy could actually take pictures of documents on Putin's desk. After Trump's election, the CIA feared their spy was in danger, so the government official was discretely exfiltrated out of Moscow, during a family vacation to Montenegro, because of the dangers imposed by Trump's recent careless disclosures of classified information to Russian officials.^[214][215]

2016 yil 26 aprelda, Jorj Papadopulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy advisor, held a meeting with Jozef Mifsud,^[216] a man described by James B. Comey as a "Russian agent".^{[217][218][219]} Mifsud, who claimed "substantial connections to Russian officials",^[216] told Papadopoulos the Russians had "dirt" on Clinton in the form of thousands of her emails. This occurred concurrently with the Hillari Klintonning elektron pochta ziddiyati, but before the hacking of the DNC computers had become public knowledge,^[216][220] va Papadopulos keyinchalik "Tramp kampaniyasi Rossiya hukumati Xillari Klintonga axloqsizlik borligini bilganligi" bilan maqtangan. Jon Siferning so'zlariga ko'ra, "sud hujjatlari unga haqiqatan ham Rossiya agenti Kremlda" minglab elektron pochta "shaklida kamsituvchi ma'lumotlar borligini aytgan".^{[10][216][220]}

2019 yil fevral oyida Maykl Koen Trampni AQSh Kongressi oldida ayblab, 2016 yil iyul oyi oxirida Tramp buni bilishini yozdi Rojer Stoun 2016 yilda DNC dan o'g'irlangan elektron pochta xabarlarini chiqarish to'g'risida WikiLeaks bilan aloqa o'rnatgan.^[221][222] Stoun buni rad etdi va Koenni Kongressga yolg'on gapirishda aybladi.^[223]

Papadopulos Putin haqida elektron pochta xabarlarini Trumpning kamida etti vakolatxonasiga yubordi. Trump milliy kampaniyasining hamraisi Sem Klovis^[224] Papadopulosni Rossiyaga uchishga va agentlari bilan uchrashishga undaydi Rossiya tashqi ishlar vazirligi Xabarlarga ko'ra, "Klinton axloqsizligi" ni Tramp kampaniyasi bilan bo'lishishni xohlagan.^[225][226] Qachon Kichik Donald Tramp bu taklifdan xabardor bo'lib, unga javoban uni mamnuniyat bilan qabul qildi: «Agar bu siz aytayotgan bo'lsa, men uni yaxshi ko'raman ..."^[21] Keyinchalik, 2016 yil 9-iyun kuni a Trump minorasida uchrashuv go'yoki Rossiyadan kelgan vakillar ushbu axloqsizlikni Klintonga etkazishi uchun bo'lib o'tdi.^[227][228] Buning o'rniga, yig'ilishni bekor qilishni muhokama qilish uchun foydalanilgan Magnitskiy qonuni 2012 yilda Rossiyaga qarshi qo'llanilgan iqtisodiy sanktsiyalar,^[199] nomzod Tramp tomonidan ma'qul bo'lgan harakat.^[105][229]

Da Xelsinki sammiti yig'ilishi 2018 yil iyul oyida Putindan Trampni 2016 yilgi saylovda g'alaba qozonishini xohlaysizmi, deb so'rashdi. U "Ha, men shunday qildim. Ha, shunday qildim. Chunki u AQSh-Rossiya munosabatlarini normal holatga keltirish haqida gaplashdi" deb javob berdi.^[230]

Rossiyaning sa'y-harakatlari bilan Manafort va boshqalarning hamkorligi

Ma'lumot manbalarida (lar) Ukrainada ko'p yillar davomida Rossiya manfaatlari uchun ishlagan Manafort,^[229] "[Trump kampaniyasi] va Rossiya rahbariyati o'rtasidagi hamkorlikning yaxshi rivojlangan fitnasini" boshqargan ".^{[186][5][171]} "Fitna" isbotlanmagan, ammo "hamkorlik" isbotlangan deb hisoblanadi.

Myuller tergovi "etarli dalillar keltira olmagan" bo'lsa-da^[231] rasmiy yozma yoki og'zaki "fitna" mavjudligini isbotlash,^{[43][232][233]} ba'zilari Manafortning harakatlarini ko'rib chiqadi,^[234] Tramp Rossiyaning yordamini kutib oldi,^[235] va Trumpning boshqa saylov kampaniyasi a'zolari va ruslar bilan sheriklari o'rtasidagi son-sanoqsiz maxfiy aloqalar^[79][32][33] Rossiyaning "Trampning g'alaba qozonishiga yordam berish uchun 2016 yilda" keng qamrovli va tizimli "operatsiyasi bilan taxmin qilingan" hamkorlik "bo'lishi",^[7] Myuller hisobotida "Stilning asosiy da'vosi" deb ta'riflangan.^[7][212]

CNN Manafortning "Rossiyalik gumon qilingan operativ xodimlarning Manafort bilan ishlashga qaratilgan sa'y-harakatlarini muhokama qilayotganlar orasida tutilgan aloqa to'g'risida" hisobotidagi rolini tasvirlab berdi. ... Hillari Klintonning saylov istiqbollariga putur etkazishi mumkin bo'lgan ma'lumotlarni muvofiqlashtirish ... Gumon qilinayotgan tezkor xodimlar o'zlarini da'vo qilganlarini Manafort bilan suhbatlashishdi va ruslarning yordamini rag'batlantirdilar. "^[236]

Ushbu xabarlarni ushlab turish "Stil Dossier-dagi xom razvedka bilan juda mos keladi" ... [Tramp kampaniyasi] va Rossiya rahbariyati o'rtasidagi "yaxshi rivojlangan hamkorlik fitnasi" ... TRUMP tomonidan respublikachilar nomzodining saylovoldi kampaniyasining menejeri Pol MANAFORT tomonidan boshqarilgan. "^[234]

Rossiya suhbatlari tasdiqlandi

2017 yil 10 fevralda CNN "Rossiyaning yuqori martabali amaldorlari va boshqa rossiyalik shaxslar o'rtasidagi o'nlab suhbatlar haqida ma'lumotlarda batafsil ma'lumotlar" borligini va ushbu xabarlarning ba'zilari "odatiy razvedka ma'lumotlarini yig'ish paytida ushlangani" va AQSh tergovchilari tomonidan tasdiqlanganligini xabar qildi. Ular "xuddi shu kunlarda va ma'lumotnomada ko'rsatilgan joylardan bir xil shaxslar o'rtasida sodir bo'lgan". Razvedka ma'lumotlarini yig'ish dasturlarining tasniflangan holati sababli, ma'lumotnomada aytib o'tilgan aniq suhbatlarning qaysi biri tinglanganligi aniqlanmadi.

AQSh rasmiylarining ta'kidlashicha, tasdiqlash "AQSh razvedkasi va huquqni muhofaza qilish idoralari uning mazmunini faol tekshirishda davom etayotgani sababli, hujjatning ba'zi jihatlari ishonchliligiga" katta ishonch "bergan".^[29]

Kompromat va "oltin dush" da'volari

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) da'vo qilishicha, Tramp Obamani shu qadar "yomon ko'rgan "ki, u prezidentning" Suite "da bo'lganida Moskvadagi Ritz-Carlton mehmonxonasi,^[21][177] u "oldida" oltin dush "(siyish) namoyishini o'tkazish uchun bir qator fohishalarni ish bilan ta'minlagan"^{[132][31][178]} Obamalar avvalgi tashriflarida foydalangan to'shagini bulg'ash uchun. Ma'lumotlarga ko'ra, 2013 yilda sodir bo'lgan voqea film tomonidan yozib olingan FSB^[179] kompromat sifatida.^[180][181] 2020 yilgi Senatning razvedka qo'mitasi hisobotida Moskvadagi Ritz-Carlton mehmonxonasi Rossiya razvedkasi xodimlarini jalb qilgan "kontrrazvedka xavfining yuqori muhiti", "mehmonlar xonalarini hukumat nazorati ostida tutishi" va fohishalarning keng tarqalganligi, ehtimol "hech bo'lmaganda kamida Rossiya hukumatining jimgina ma'qullashi. "^[237]

Komining so'zlariga ko'ra, Tramp unga ikki marta bunday bo'lishi mumkin emasligini aytgan, chunki u Miss Universe tanlovi paytida Moskvada tunab qolmagan. Biroq,^[238] parvoz yozuvlariga ko'ra, Tramp Moskvada 37 soat bo'lgan.^[239][240] U uchib ketdi Fil Ruffin Ruffinnikida Global 5000 xususiy samolyot,^[241][242] Moskvaga soat 3 atrofida etib boradi soat 8-noyabr, juma kuni va shu tunni Moskvada o'tkazdi.^[239][240] Sobiq federal prokuror Pit Zaydenbergning so'zlariga ko'ra, bunday "sayohat to'g'risida Komiga yolg'on bayonotlar Trampning" aybdorlik ongi "borligini ko'rsatishi mumkin".^[243]

Tomas Roberts, Miss Universe tanlovining mezboni "Tramp Moskvada to'liq bir kecha va hech bo'lmaganda boshqa tunning bir qismida bo'lganligini tasdiqladi. (8-10 noyabr).^[244] Parvoz yozuvlariga ko'ra, Keyt Shiller guvohlik, ijtimoiy tarmoqlardagi xabarlar va Trampning yaqin do'sti, Aras Agalarov, Tramp xususiy samolyot bilan 8-noyabr, juma kuni Rits-Karlton mehmonxonasiga borib, "oltin yomg'irlar" hodisasi sodir bo'lganligi taxmin qilingan prezidentlik to'plamiga bron berib borgan.^[21][245]

O'sha kuni bir qator uchrashuvlar va tushlik bo'ldi. Shiller, rossiyalik ularga "tushlik paytida" murojaat qilganini aytdi^[246] va "shu kecha Trampning mehmonxonasiga beshta ayolni jo'natishni" taklif qildi.^[247] "Ko'p manbalar" ning xabar berishicha, taklif "Emin Agalarov bilan birga bo'lgan rossiyalik tomonidan qilingan".^[246] Shiller bu taklifni jiddiy qabul qilmaganini aytdi va ruschaga "Biz bunday turdagi narsalarni qilmaymiz" dedi. "^[247] O'sha kuni kechqurun Tramp Aras Agalarovning tug'ilgan kunida qatnashdi.^[247][248] Bayramdan keyin ular mehmonxonaga qaytib kelishdi. Shiller guvohlik bergan: "O'sha kuni kechqurun Trampning mehmonxonasiga borishda [u Trampga] bu taklif haqida gapirdi va Tramp uni kuldi".^[246] Keyin u Tramp bilan birga xonasiga bordi, eshik oldida bir necha daqiqa turdi va keyin chiqib ketdi.^[246] Bir manbaga ko'ra, Shiller "tunning qolgan qismida nima bo'lganini aniq ayta olmadi".^[249] Shiller, shuningdek, "Rossiyada bir necha bor bo'lgan-bo'lmaganligini ayta olmasligini aytdi ... u va Tramp Moskvada joylashgan mehmonxonani eslay olmadi va ular bir kechadan ko'proq vaqt o'tkazganlarini eslay olmadilar. "^[250] Britaniya musiqiy publitsisti Rob Goldstone Tramp Moskvada bo'lganida fohishalardan foydalanishi "mumkin emas" deb hisoblaydi. Uning so'zlariga ko'ra, u Tramp bilan 2013-yilgi Miss Universe tanlovida qatnashgan, Tramp Moskvada 36 soat bo'lgan va shu 36 soatdan 31tasida Tramp bilan birga bo'lgan.^[239]

Ertasi kuni Facebook’dagi xabarlarda uning Ritz-Carlton mehmonxonasida ekanligi aks etgan.^[248] O'sha kuni kechqurun u "Olam Missi" tanlovida qatnashdi, so'ngra partiyadan keyin. Keyin u mehmonxonasiga qaytib, narsalarini yig'di va AQShga qaytib ketdi.^[240]

Jeyms Komi o'z kitobida shunday deb yozgan Oliy sadoqat: haqiqat, yolg'on va etakchilik Tramp undan "Xotinini bu haqiqat emasligiga ishontirmoqchi bo'lgani uchun" pee lenta ayblovini tekshirishini FBIdan so'raganligi:^[251] "U" oltin dush narsasi "deb atagan narsani tarbiyaladi ... bu uning rafiqasi Melaniya "bir foizli imkoniyat bo'lsa ham" uni bezovta qilganini qo'shimcha qildi. ... Qaysi nikohda, qanday erkakka, turmush o'rtog'i bu ishni qilmasligi uchun 99 foiz imkoniyat bor degan xulosaga keladi? "^[251] Komi "oltin yomg'irlar" da'vosining to'g'riligini bilmas edi, lekin u bunga ishondi. ABC News-ga bergan intervyusida u aytdi Jorj Stefanopulos: "Men chin dildan bu so'zlar og'zimdan chiqadi deb o'ylamagan edim, ammo AQShning amaldagi prezidenti 2013 yilda Moskvada fohishalar bilan bir-birlarini siylash bilan birga bo'lganmi yoki yo'qligini bilmayman. Bu mumkin, lekin men bilmayman ".^[252]

"Oltin yomg'irlar" da'vosiga kelsak, Maykl Isikoff va Devid makkajo'xori Stilning "shov-shuvli jinsiy da'voga bo'lgan ishonchi vaqt o'tishi bilan yo'qoladi" deb ta'kidladilar. ... Tramp ishtirokida fohishalar siydik chiqargan degan da'vo ehtimoliga kelsak, Stil hamkasblariga: "Bu 50-50", deb aytardi.^[51] Kitob Rossiya ruleti Stilning "Rits-Karlton voqeasi" ellik ellik "bo'lganligiga ishonchi komil. U hujjatdagi hamma narsani xom razvedka materiali sifatida ko'rib chiqdi - isbotlanmagan fakt".^[253] 2019 yilgi kitobida Fusion GPS asoschilari Stilning "mehmonxona latifasi" ni Rossiyaning etti manbasidan olganligi haqida xabar berishdi.^[13]

Gumon qilingan voqeaning 25 soniyali "siydik lentasi" videosi kamida 2019 yil 25 yanvardan beri muomalada bo'lgan. Eshli Faynberg haqida keng yozgan va uni muhokama qilgan va tahlil qilgan barcha ma'ruzalar va manbalar. U buni ishonchli, ammo soxta deb ta'riflaydi.^[254]

Myuller hisobotidagi izohga ko'ra, Tramp Rossiyada uning xatti-harakatlarida ayblovchi lentalar bo'lganini eshitgan bo'lishi mumkin. 2016 yil 30 oktyabrda Maykl Koen Trampning ko'chmas mulk loyihalarida Koen bilan birga ishlagan tadbirkor Giorgi Rtsxiladze bilan bir qator matnli xabar almashdi. Rtsxiladze "Rossiyadan lentalar oqimini muvaffaqiyatli to'xtatganini, ammo boshqa biron bir narsa bor-yo'qligiga amin emasligini aytdi. ... "Rtsxiladze tergovchilarga bu Trumpning murosaga keltiruvchi lentalari ekanligini aytdi. Koen tergovchilarga ushbu masala bo'yicha Tramp bilan gaplashganini aytdi. Keyinchalik Rtsxiladze tergovchilarga" unga lentalar soxta ekanligini aytishgan, ammo u bu haqda Koen bilan aloqa qilmagan ".^[34] Rolling Stone "Rtsxiladzening lenta tarkibidagi tekshirilmagan ma'lumotlar bilan lentalar tarkibidagi treklarni ta'rifi" haqida xabar berdi.^[255]

Moskvada o'tkazilgan 2013-yilgi Miss Universe tanlovidan oldin Trumpni Las-Vegasdagi "Act" klubiga tashrifi chog'ida Crocus Group egasi Aras Agalarov va uning o'g'li Emin ham Klintonga "axloqsizlik" bilan bo'lishish taklifida qatnashgan. Trump minorasi uchrashuvi.^[256] Agalarovlar oilasi, shuningdek, Trampning Rossiyada, ham Sankt-Peterburgda, ham Moskvada Rits Karltonda jinsiy aloqada bo'lganligi to'g'risida ma'lumot bilan bog'liq edi. Ma'lumotnoma manbalari Aras Agalarov Sankt-Peterburgda "Respublikachilar partiyasidan prezidentlikka nomzod nima bilan bog'liq bo'lganligi haqidagi tafsilotlarning ko'pini bilib olishini" xabar qildi.^[181] 2013 yilda Tramp Ritz Carlton mehmonxonasida bo'lganida, "bir nechta manbalar" "beshta ayolni o'sha kuni Trampning mehmonxonasiga yuborish" taklifi haqida xabar berishgan^[247] Emin Agalarov bilan birga bo'lgan bir rus tilidan kelgan ".^[246] Myuller hisobotidagi izohda Giorgi Rtsxiladzening "oqimini muvaffaqiyatli to'xtatganligi" haqida xabar bergani tasvirlangan ... Trumpning murosaga soluvchi lentalari Rossiyaning ko'chmas mulk kroklomerati Crocus Group bilan aloqador shaxslar tomonidan ushlab turilishi haqida mish-mishlar tarqaldi "[Agalarovga tegishli].^[34]

Tramp Putinning ta'siri ostida deb hisoblagan

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) da ta'kidlanishicha, ruslar Trampda unga shantaj qilish uchun ishlatilishi mumkin bo'lgan kompromat bor va u Kreml ular bilan hamkorligini davom ettirar ekan, unga kompromat ishlatilmaydi.^[170][184] Trampning Xelsinki sammitidagi 2018 yildagi xatti-harakatlari "ko'pchilik Stilning hisoboti haqiqatdan ham aniqroq degan xulosaga keldi. ... Tramp AQSh razvedkasi hamjamiyatining Moskvaning 2016 yilgi saylovlarga qarshi har tomonlama hujum uyushtirganligi haqidagi bahosi tufayli ruslar tomonini oldi ... Qo'shma matbuot anjumani ... ba'zilar orasida Trump Putinning cho'ntagida bo'lganidan va ikki partiyali munosabatlarga sabab bo'lgan degan qo'rquvni kuchaytirdi. "^[258]

Qo'shma matbuot anjumanida ushbu mavzu bo'yicha to'g'ridan-to'g'ri so'ralganda, Putin Trampga nisbatan biron bir kompromat mavjudligini rad etdi. Xabarlarga ko'ra, Trampga "Putindan sovg'a" topshirilgan bo'lsa-da, hafta oxirida, Putin "Trumpning Rossiyada" Miss Universe Miss "tanlovida bo'lganligini 2013 yilda bilmaganligini, Stil ma'lumotlariga ko'ra, Trampning videosi uni shantaj qilish uchun yashirincha yozib olingan. "^[259]

Trampning sammitdagi harakatlariga munosabat sifatida senator Chak Shumer (D-N.Y.) Senatda so'zga chiqdi:

Millionlab amerikaliklar ushbu xavfli va tushunarsiz xatti-harakatlarning mumkin bo'lgan yagona izohi - bu Prezident Putinning Trampga qarshi zararli ma'lumotlarga ega bo'lish ehtimoli - bu haqiqiy imkoniyatmi, deb hayron bo'lishni davom ettiradi.^[260]

AQSh razvedka hamjamiyatidagi bir nechta tezkor xodimlar va advokatlar Trampning sammitdagi ishiga qattiq munosabat bildirishdi. Ular buni "Putinga bo'ysunuvchi" va "AQShning manfaatlariga zararli" deb hisoblagan "Rossiyaning butun dunyodagi harbiy va kiber tajovuzini va uning Ukrainadagi xalqaro qonunlarini buzishini" qizg'in himoya qilish "deb ta'rifladilar. Shuningdek, ular uni "rus boyligi" yoki Putin uchun "foydali ahmoq" deb taxmin qilishdi,^[261] va u "Putinning qo'g'irchog'iga" o'xshaydi.^[262] Avvalgi Milliy razvedka direktori Jeyms Klapper "agar ruslar Trampda biror narsa bo'lsa", deb hayron bo'lishdi,^[263] va Trampni "xoinlikda" ayblagan Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasining sobiq direktori Jon Brennan o'z tvitterida: "U butunlay Putinning cho'ntagida".^[264]

Sobiq Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi direktori vazifasini bajaruvchi Maykl Morell Trumpni "Rossiya federatsiyasining bilmagan agenti" va Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasining sobiq direktori deb atadi Maykl V. Xeyden Tramp "Moskva tomonidan manipulyatsiya qilinadigan" "foydali ahmoq" edi.^[265] Uy spikeri Nensi Pelosi Tramp undan: "[Nima uchun] barcha yo'llar Putinga olib boradi?"^[266]

Ynet, Isroilning onlayn yangiliklar sayti, 2017 yil 12-yanvar kuni AQSh razvedkasi Stilning hisoboti tomonidan taklif qilingan Rossiyaning Trampga ta'sir qilish ehtimoli to'liq bo'lgunga qadar, Isroil razvedka xizmatiga kelgan Tramp ma'muriyati bilan ma'lumot almashishda ehtiyot bo'lishni maslahat berganini xabar qildi. tekshirildi.^[267]

Maks yuklash^[268] u nimani ko'proq "Trampning Putinga bo'ysunganligining isboti" deb ta'riflagan va uni Trampning "Moskvaga tashrifi chog'ida rus ayollari bilan tuzgan ittifoqlari" haqidagi mish-mishlarning yangi hukumat tomonidan tasdiqlanishi bilan bog'lagan, uni "shantaj qilish uchun ochiq" qoldirgan. 2020 yil Senatning razvedka qo'mitasi hisobot:^[12] Boot shunday deb yozgan edi: "Bu AQSh hukumatining har qanday filialidan Trampga nisbatan Rossiya kompromatining mish-mishlari - shafqatsiz Stil Dossier-ning asosiy xususiyati - aslida ba'zi asoslarga ega bo'lishi mumkinligi haqidagi birinchi tasdiqdir."^[268] Senatning Razvedka qo'mitasi hisobotida Rossiya kompromatining imkoniyatlari keng o'rganilgan bo'lsa-da, munozaralarning katta qismi hisobotning ommaviy versiyasida qayta ko'rib chiqildi. Oxir oqibat, Senatning Razvedka qo'mitasi Rossiyaning Trampga qarshi kompromat borligini "aniqlamadi".^[269]

Kremlning "ruminiyalik" xakerlari va WikiLeaks-dan foydalanish va Trampning saylovoldi kampaniyasiga munosabati

Dossier manbalari (lar) da Putin tomonidan boshqariladigan "ruminiyalik xakerlar" DNC serverlarini buzganligi va Tramp kampaniyasi Rossiya bilan hamkorlik qilganligi iddao qilingan.^[115][66]

Rossiyalik xakerlar Guccifer 2.0 persona va deb da'vo qildi Rumin, dastlab uni ishlatgan ruminiyalik xaker kabi shaxsiyat.^{[270][271][272]}

The Myullerning hisoboti Ma'lumotlar to'plami Kremlning WikiLeaks-da DNC elektron pochta xabarlari paydo bo'lishi ortida turgani haqidagi to'g'ri ekanligini tasdiqladi va Trump kampaniyasi "WikiLeaks-ning hujjatlari chiqarilishiga qiziqish bildirganligini va ularning nomzod Klintonga zarar etkazish imkoniyatlarini mamnuniyat bilan qabul qilganligini" ta'kidladi.^[34]

Rossiyaning 13 fuqarosi va uchta kompaniyasiga 2016 yilgi saylovlarga aralashish va Trampning saylovoldi kampaniyasini qo'llab-quvvatlash harakatlari uchun ayblov e'lon qilindi. Ular kampaniyasini 2014 yilda, Trampning so'zlariga ko'ra, Trampning saylovoldi kampaniyasining rasmiy boshlanishidan "ancha oldin" boshlashgan. 2016 yilga kelib ular Trampni qo'llab-quvvatladilar, deya xulosa qildi AQSh hukumati.^[273]

CNN xabariga ko'ra, "Trump kampaniyasining sobiq yuqori martabali amaldorlari maxsus maslahatchi Robert Myullerning Trump kampaniyasi ba'zi strategiyasini Rossiya xakerlari atrofida rejalashtirganligi va 2016 yilda Kremlga aloqador shaxslar bilan bir nechta aloqada bo'lganligi haqidagi xulosasini tasdiqladilar."^[274]

2020 yil 19 fevralda ko'plab manbalar advokatlar advokatlik qilganligini aniqladilar WikiLeaks asoschisi Julian Assanj aytdi Vestminster sudlari sudi Trump edi Dana Rohrabaxer 2017 yil 16 avgustda Londonda Ekvador elchixonasida Assanjga tashrif buyuring. U erda u quid pro quo a taklifi prezidentni kechirish Assanj evaziga Assanjga yashirish Rossiyaning "Rossiyaning DNC ning tarqalishiga hech qanday aloqasi yo'q" deb e'lon qilish bilan aralashuvi: "[Advokat] Edvard Fitsjerald ... Putinning sevimli kongressmen sifatida tanilgan Rohrabaxer tomonidan Assanjga kvid pro-kvoni qo'yganiga oid dalillari borligini aytdi ".^{[275][276][277]}

Hack qilingan elektron pochta xabarlarini chiqarish muddati

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) da Karter Peyjning (ruslar) WikiLeaks-ga 2016 yilgi Demokratik Milliy Kongress paytida o'g'irlangan DNC elektron pochta xabarlarini tarqatib yuborish g'oyasini "o'ylab topgan va targ'ib qilgani" da'vo qilingan.^[188][176] Berni Sanders tarafdorlarini "Xillari KLINTONdan nariga va TRUMPga" silkitish uchun.^[188][187] (Hisobotlar 95, 102)

2016 yil iyul oyida "xatolarga yo'l qo'yilgan xabarda" WikiLeaks Rossiya razvedkasini ushbu maqsadga erishish uchun tezkorlik bilan harakat qilishga chaqirdi: "Agar sizda Hillari bilan bog'liq biror narsa bo'lsa, biz buni keyingi ikki kun ichida oldindan istaymiz, chunki DNC yaqinlashmoqda va u Berni ortida uning tarafdorlarini kuchaytiradi. "^[271] The New York Times Assanj aytgan Endi demokratiya! "U ularning ozod qilinishini Demokratik qurultoyga to'g'ri kelgan edi".^[278]

Nashrlar DNC milliy anjumanidan bir kun oldin boshlandi, bu vaqt shubhali deb topildi Devid Shedd, avvalgi Mudofaa razvedkasi agentligining direktori, kim aytdi: "Elektron pochta xabarlarini chiqarilishi xuddi shu hafta Demokratik partiyaning milliy qurultoyi boshlanganda, Rossiya faol choralari kampaniyasining o'ziga xos xususiyatlariga ega."^[279]

Yanukovichning manaforti va kickback to'lovlari

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) ning ta'kidlashicha, Manafort o'n yildan beri maslahat bergan Rossiyaga do'stona prezident Yanukovich, Putinga u go'yo iz qoldirib bo'lmaydigan qilib qo'yganini aytgan^[9] Manafortga qaytarib to'lash.^[9] Yanukovich 2014 yilda korrupsiyada ayblanib Rossiyaga qochib ketganidan so'ng, Mintaqalar partiyasining sobiq shtab-kvartirasida maxfiy "qora daftar" topilgan. Bu Yanukovich va uning hukmron siyosiy partiyasi Manafortga 2007 yildan 2012 yilgacha qilgan ishi uchun 12,7 million dollar miqdorida noqonuniy va oshkor etilmagan to'lovlarni ajratib qo'yganligini ko'rsatdi.^[280] Manafort to'lovlarni qabul qilishni rad etdi.^[281] Manafort "Ukrainaning rossiyaparast prezidenti Viktor Yanukovichni ag'darilishidan oldin uning kitobidan tashqari noqonuniy, kitobdan tashqari to'lovlar" sifatida 750 ming dollar olganlikda ayblangan.^[282]

2006 yildan 2009 yilgacha Manafort Putinning ittifoqdoshi va alyuminiy magnati Oleg Deripaska bilan yiliga 10 million dollarlik shartnomaga ega edi, bu shartnomaga binoan Manafort "AQSh, Evropa va sobiq mamlakatlardagi siyosat, ishbilarmonlik ishlari va yangiliklar qamrab olinishiga ta'sir qilishini" taklif qildi. Sovet respublikalari Prezident Vladimir Putin hukumatiga foyda keltiradi. "^[283]

Peyj "Rosneft" rasmiylari bilan uchrashdi

Karter sahifasi (2017)

Igor Sechin (2016)

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) i Karter Peyjning yashirincha uchrashganligini iddao qilmoqda Rosneft rais Igor Sechin 2016 yil iyul oyida.^[172] Sahifa o'sha iyul safari chog'ida Sechin yoki Rossiyaning boshqa rasmiylari bilan uchrashishni rad etdi,^[284][285] keyinchalik u qasamyod bilan tan oldi, u Sechinning katta yordamchisi Andrey Baranov bilan uchrashgan, u Rosneftning sarmoyadorlar bilan ishlash bo'yicha rahbari edi.^[286][55]

Jeyn Mayerning aytishicha, rasmiy shaxsning ismi noto'g'ri bo'lsa ham, hujjatning ushbu qismi to'g'ri ko'rinadi. Page ning Kongressdagi ko'rsatmalari uning Moskva va Rosneftning yuqori lavozimli rasmiylari bilan maxfiy uchrashuvlar o'tkazganligini, shu jumladan to'lov to'g'risida muzokaralar o'tkazganligini tasdiqladi: "Peyjdan" Rosneft "rahbariyati unga" Rosneftning sezilarli foizini sotish "ni taklif qilganmi?" Deb so'raganida, "u" dedi. qisqacha eslatib o'tgan bo'lishi mumkin. '"^[21]

2017 yil 2-noyabr kuni Sahifa oldin paydo bo'ldi Uyning razvedka qo'mitasi Rossiyaning 2016 yildagi AQSh saylovlariga aralashuvini tekshirmoqda. 2016 yil iyul oyida Peyj Moskvaga besh kunlik sayohat qildi,^[287] lekin, uning guvohligiga ko'ra, ketishdan oldin u xabar bergan Jeff Sessions, J. D. Gordon, Umid Xiks va Kori Levandovski, Trumpning saylov kampaniyasi menejeri, Rossiyaga rejalashtirilgan safari va Levandovski, sayohatni ma'qullab, quyidagicha javob berdi: "Agar siz o'zingiz sayohat qilishni xohlasangiz, kampaniyaga aloqador emassiz, bilasizmi, bu yaxshi".^[199][288] O'zining ko'rsatmalarida Peyj yuqori martabali amaldorlar bilan uchrashganini tan oldi. Ilgari, Peyj iyul safari davomida Rossiya rasmiylari bilan uchrashishni rad etgan edi. Uning sharhlari hujjatning ba'zi qismlarini tasdiqlagan ko'rinadi.^[284][285] Newsweek Rosneft mutasaddilari bilan o'tkazilgan Peyj uchrashuvi to'g'risidagi da'voni "tasdiqlangan" deb sanab o'tdi.^[289]

Rosneft xususiylashtirish vositachiligi

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) da ta'kidlanishicha, Sechin "PAGE / TRUMP sheriklariga" Rosneft "ning 19 foiz (xususiylashtirilgan) ulushini vositachilik qilishni taklif qilgan" (taxminan 11 dollar). milliard) evaziga Trump ko'targan Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalar u saylanganidan keyin.^{[197][175][170][198][199]}

Hardingning so'zlariga ko'ra, Sechin va Divyekin bu taklifni a sifatida o'rnatdilar sabzi va tayoq sxemasi, unda savzi vositachilik haqi ("o'nlab va ehtimol yuz millionlab dollar mintaqasida") va tayoq shantaj Rossiya rahbariyati tomonidan qo'lga olingan "Trampga zararli materiallar" ustidan.^[290]

Trampning saylovda g'alaba qozonganidan taxminan bir oy o'tgach Guardian, Karter Peyj Moskvaga "kompaniya Rosneftning 19,5% ulushini sotishini e'lon qilishidan bir oz oldin" borgan. U Rosneftda Rossiyaning yuqori lavozimli rasmiylari bilan uchrashgan, ammo Sechin bilan uchrashishni rad etgan. Shuningdek, u Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalar ta'siridan shikoyat qildi.^[291]

2016 yil 7 dekabrda Putin "Rosneft" ning 19,5 foiz aksiyasi sotilganligini e'lon qildi Glencore va a Qatar fond. Ommaviy yozuvlar yakuniy egasi "a Kayman orollari foydali egalarini izlab topib bo'lmaydigan kompaniya "," asosiy savol "" Rosneft "ning 19,5 foiz aksiyasining haqiqiy xaridori kim?" ... "Rosneft" xususiylashtirish jarayonida qobiq kompaniyalariga egalik qiluvchi qobiq kompaniyalari tuzilmasidan foydalaniladi. "^{[292][293][294]}

Martin Longman, uchun yozmoqda Vashington oylik, Stilning "Rossiyaning energetika giganti" Rosneft "ning 19 foiz ulushi xususiylashtirilishi va iqtisodiy sanktsiyalarni bekor qilish evaziga Tramp yoki uning sheriklariga taqdim etilishi" haqidagi bashoratini "tantal" deb topdi. U, shuningdek, "bu raqam matbuotda biron bir joyda paydo bo'lgan yoki bu ajoyib tasodif yoki aql-idrok yaxshi va va'da qilingan" degan so'zlarni "qiziq" deb topdi.^[295]

Lyuk Xarding savdo haqida "Stilning Rosneft manbasi haq edi" deb yozgan edi: "Bu 1990-yillardan buyon eng katta xususiylashtirishlardan biri edi ... Stilning molasi rejani "Rosneft" boshqaruviga xabar berishdan bir necha oy oldin bilgan. Kengash ushbu bitimni faqat 7 dekabrda, Sechin Putin bilan televizion uchrashuvini yozib olganidan bir necha soat o'tgach aniqladi. Hatto ruslar kabinetini ham zulmatda ushlab turishgan edi ".^[290]

Trampning sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishga urinishlari

Ma'lumotlarga ko'ra, Trampning vakolati bilan gaplashishni da'vo qilgan Teyp, agar u prezident etib saylansa, Rossiyaga qarshi mavjud sanksiyalarni bekor qilishini tasdiqlagan.^[170] 2016 yil 29 dekabrda saylov va inauguratsiya o'rtasidagi o'tish davrida Flinn milliy xavfsizlik bo'yicha maslahatchisi Rossiya elchisi bilan suhbatlashdi Sergey Kislyak, uni yangi kiritilgan sanktsiyalar uchun qasos olmaslikka chaqirish; ruslar uning maslahatidan foydalanishdi va qasos olishmadi.^[296]

Inauguratsiyadan keyingi bir necha kun ichida Tramp ma'muriyatining yangi rasmiylari Davlat departamenti xodimlariga iqtisodiy va boshqa sanktsiyalarni darhol bekor qilish bo'yicha takliflarni ishlab chiqishni buyurdilar.^[297] Keyinroq iste'fodagi diplomatlardan biri: "Bu voqealarni tashvishga soladigan narsa shuki, to'satdan biz hech narsa evaziga sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishga tayyorlanayotganimizni eshitdim" dedi.^[298] Xodimlar sanktsiyalarni qonunga muvofiqlashtirish choralarini ko'rgan Kongress ittifoqchilarini ogohlantirdilar. Sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishga urinish Flinnning suhbati oshkor bo'lganidan va Flinn iste'foga chiqqandan keyin bekor qilingan.^[297][179] 2017 yil avgust oyida Kongress Rossiyaga qarshi yangi sanktsiyalarni qo'llash to'g'risidagi ikki tomonlama qonun loyihasini qabul qildi. Tramp istamaygina qonun loyihasini imzoladi, ammo keyin uni amalga oshirishdan bosh tortdi.^[299] Tramp Manafortni yollaganidan so'ng, uning Ukrainaga munosabati o'zgardi; u Qrimni Rossiya hududi deb tan olishi va Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishi mumkinligini aytdi.^[229]

Sanktsiyalanganlar orasida rus oligarxlari ham bor edi Oleg Deripaska, "Pol Manafort bilan bog'liq bo'lgan", parlament a'zosi Konstantin Kosachev, bankir Aleksandr Torshin, va Putinning kuyovi. Sanksiyalarga tayyorgarlik Tramp o'z lavozimiga kirishidan oldin boshlangan edi.^[300] 2019 yilning yanvarida Trampning moliya vazirligi ilgari Deripaska tomonidan nazorat qilingan kompaniyalarga nisbatan sanktsiyalarni bekor qildi. Deripaskaning o'ziga nisbatan sanksiyalar o'z kuchida qoldi.^[301]

Koen va taxmin qilingan Praga tashrifi

Ma'lumot manbalariga ko'ra, Koen uchta hamkasbi bilan Praga ofislarida Kreml rasmiylari bilan yashirincha uchrashgan. Rossotrudnichestvo 2016 yil avgust oyida,^{[196][170][116]} u xakerlarga "rad etilishi mumkin bo'lgan naqd to'lovlarni" tashkil qilgan va "xakerlik operatsiyasining barcha izlarini yashirishga" intilgan;^[115][66] shuningdek, "Tramp va Rossiya o'rtasidagi aloqalarni, shu jumladan, Manafortning Ukrainaga aloqadorligini yashirish".^[9] (Hisobotlar 136, 166)

Chexiya razvedkasining manbasiga ko'ra, 2017 yil 11 yanvar holatiga ko'ra, uning Pragaga samolyot bilan kirishi haqida hech qanday ma'lumot yo'q edi, ammo Hurmat jurnal va Politico ichida qo'shni davlatdan mashina yoki poezd bilan kirishi mumkinligini ta'kidladi Shengen zonasi, masalan Italiya. Ikkinchi holatda, Shengen zonasiga kirmagan Cohenning Shengen mintaqasiga kirishi to'g'risidagi yozuv mavjud bo'lishi kerak.^[302][303]

2018 yil aprel oyida, Makklatchi DC byurosi Maxsus maslahatchi Maykl Koenning Stil tomonidan xabar qilinganidek 2016 yil yozining oxirida Praga yashirincha tashrif buyurganligi to'g'risida dalillarga ega ekanligini va Myullerning tergovchilari "Koen Chexiya Respublikasiga Germaniya orqali kirganligi to'g'risida dalillarni izlab topganligini" xabar qildi.^[196] da'vo qaysi Tomoshabin "Londonda bitta razvedka manbasi tomonidan qo'llab-quvvatlangan".^[304]

Der Spiegel Bavyera aerodromidan foydalangan holda ushbu yozuv "Evropada razvedka xizmatlari orasida aylanib yurgan" hikoyaning bir qismidir. Chexiya razvedkasi "bog'liq agentlik nomidan" harakat qilib, Soloduxin va boshqa bir shaxs o'rtasidagi uchrashuvni "kuzatishni rejalashtirgan", deb ta'kidlamoqda, ammo xabar juda ehtiyotkor bo'lganligi va uchrashuv atrofidagi xavfsizlik choralari ko'rilganligi sababli kuzatuv to'xtatilgani aytilmoqda. Chetlar chet ellik sheriklari tomonidan operatsiya sababi yoki uchrashuvga kimlar tashrif buyurishi mumkinligi to'g'risida xabardor qilinmagan. "^[15]

2018 yil avgust oyida, BBC muxbir Pol Vud yozgan: "Men Myuller Pragada Koenni joylashtiradigan" elektron yozuvlarni "tekshirmoqda deb aytgan bir razvedka manbasi bilan gaplashdim."^[305] Makklatchi 2018 yil dekabrida Koenga kuzatilgan mobil telefon "ping" qilgani haqida xabar bergan edi uyali aloqa minoralari 2016 yil yoz oxirida Praga atrofida va signalni "xorijiy razvedka agentligi oldi" ... Koenning yo'qligi, lekin u foydalanadigan ko'plab telefonlardan biri bo'lishi ehtimolini "oshirmoqda".^[306] Makklatchining aytishicha, ularning 2018 yil dekabrdagi hisoboti "xorijiy razvedka aloqalariga ega bo'lgan besh kishining ma'lumotlariga asoslanib, ... "va har biri" o'z ma'lumotlarini bir-biridan mustaqil ravishda olishgan. Makklati hisobot berishda turadi. "^[306]

Makklatchi, shuningdek, shu vaqt ichida an Sharqiy Evropa razvedka agentligi ruslar o'rtasidagi aloqalarni to'xtatgan, ulardan biri Koen Pragada bo'lganligini eslatib o'tgan.^[307] Koen hech qachon Pragada bo'lmaganligini yana bir bor ta'kidlab, "Myuller hamma narsani biladi!"^[308]

Koenning so'zlariga ko'ra, u hech qachon Pragaga sayohat qilmagan Ona Jons 2016 yilda u Pragaga bundan 14 yil oldin qisqacha tashrif buyurgan.^[177] U shuningdek aytdi The Wall Street Journal u 2001 yilda Pragada bo'lganligi.^[309] Bilan intervyu paytida Chak Todd 2018 yil 22-avgustda Koenning advokati Leni Devis Koen Pragada "hech qachon, hech qachon" bo'lmagan va Stil hujjatida uning ismi zikr etilgan barcha da'volar yolg'on ekanligini aytdi.^[310]

Koen ham borligini aytdi Kapri uning oilasi, do'stlari va musiqachi va aktyor bilan suhbatlashadigan vaqt uchun Stiven Van Zandt^[311] va bu kvitralar uning Kaprida bo'lganligini tasdiqlaydi, ammo u ularni taqdim etishdan bosh tortdi.^[116] Van Zandtning rafiqasi Mureinning aytishicha, ular Kaprida emas, Rimda uchrashgan.^[311] Van Zandt Koen va uning rafiqasi bilan Rimda uchrashganligini tasdiqladi.^[312]

The Vashington Post Kohenning Dossierda ko'rsatilgan maqsadlar uchun u erda bo'lganligini tekshirishga urinish uchun jurnalistlar guruhini Pragaga yubordi. Muxbir Greg Millerning so'zlariga ko'ra, ular "bo'sh keldilar".^[313]

Glenn Kessler, faktlarni tekshiruvchi Washington Post, dedi Myullerning hisoboti "Pragada bunday uchrashuv bo'lmaganligini taxmin qilmoqda". Myuller bu da'voni tekshirganligini ko'rsatmadi, "u shunchaki hodisani Koenning so'zlari bilan rad etadi, chunki Kongress oldida Koenning ko'rsatmalar berishga tayyorlanishini muhokama qiladi".^[34]

Myuller hisobotida Koen hech qachon Pragaga sayohat qilmaganligi aytilgan. Bu Koenning telefoni Pragada yoki uning yaqinida pinhona bo'lganligi haqidagi dalillarga ishora qilmadi, chunki avvalroq Makklatchi xabar bergan edi.^{[306][314][27]}

Devid Kramerning ko'rsatmalariga ko'ra, Stil "Kohenning Pragaga qilingan safari" to'g'risida noaniq edi. Kramer: "Bu Pragada bo'lishi mumkin edi, Pragadan tashqarida ham bo'lishi mumkin edi. Shuningdek, u Budapeshtda bo'lishi mumkin deb o'ylagan" ... [ammo Stil] Koenni Evropada bo'lgan degan fikrdan hech qachon qaytarmadi ”.^[12]

Rossiyaning Ukraina bilan to'qnashuvi va unga tegishli sanktsiyalar bo'yicha respublikachilarning pozitsiyasi

2015 yilda Tramp Ukrainaning Rossiyadan mustaqilligi tarafdori bo'lgan qat'iy pozitsiyani egallagan edi. Dastlab u Rossiyaning Qrimni qo'shib olishini "hech qachon bo'lmasligi kerak edi" degan "erlarni tortib olish" deb qoraladi va AQShga nisbatan qat'iyroq javob berishga chaqirdi: "Biz, albatta, kuchli bo'lishimiz kerak. Biz sanktsiyalarni albatta qilishimiz kerak".^[229]

Pol Manafort va Karter Peyjning yollanishi bilan Trampning Ukrainaga bo'lgan munosabati teskari bo'lib qoldi. Manafort ko'p yillar davomida Ukrainadagi Rossiya manfaatlari uchun ishlagan va Manafortni o'zining saylovoldi menejeri sifatida yollaganidan so'ng, Tramp Qrimni Rossiya hududi deb tan olishi va Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishi mumkinligini aytgan.^[229] O'sha paytda Tramp Karter Peyjni tashqi siyosat bo'yicha maslahatchi etib tayinlagan edi, Peyj ochiq va keskin rossiyaparast, sanktsiyalarga qarshi, Trampning fikri bilan birlashadigan va o'zidan, shuningdek, rus do'stlaridan shikoyat qilgan odam sifatida tanilgan edi. , Rossiyaning Ukrainadagi tajovuzkorligi va 2016 yilgi saylovlarga aralashgani sababli unga nisbatan qo'llanilgan sanksiyalar biznes manfaatlariga salbiy ta'sir ko'rsatdi.^[105][315]

Ma'lumotnoma manbalari (lar) "Trump kampaniyasi AQShning Rossiyaning Ukrainaga kirib kelishiga qarshi bo'lgan qarama-qarshiligini minimallashtirishga kelishib olgan" deb da'vo qilmoqda.^[316][186] Harding bu da'voni Tramp kampaniyasining xatti-harakatlari bilan tasdiqlangan deb hisoblaydi: "Bu o'tgan yilning iyulida Respublikachilar milliy konvensiyasida sodir bo'lgan, AQShning Ukrainaga sodiqligi haqidagi til sirli ravishda yumshatilgan edi".^[115] Washington Post "Trump kampaniyasi 2016 yil iyul oyida" Respublikachilar partiyasining Ukraina bo'yicha siyosati loyihasiga tuzatishlar tilini yumshatish uchun "bir qator tadbirlar tashkil etgani" haqida xabar berdi.^[317] 2016 yil iyul oyida Respublika milliy anjumani Respublikachilar partiyasining Ukrainadagi platformasiga o'zgartirishlar kiritdi: Dastlab platformada Ukrainaga "o'ldiradigan qurol" berishni taklif qilishdi, ammo yo'nalish "tegishli yordam" ga o'zgartirildi.

Milliy radio "Ukrainadagi AQSh ittifoqchilarini qurollantirishni qo'llab-quvvatlagan respublikachi delegat Diana Denman odamlarga Trampning yordamchisi J.D. Gordonning 2016 yilgi Respublika anjumanida Tramp uni rasmiy platformadagi ushbu pozitsiyani zaiflashtirishni qo'llab-quvvatlashga yo'naltirganini aytganini aytdi".^[318] J. D. Gordon, saylovoldi kampaniyasi paytida Trampning milliy xavfsizlik bo'yicha maslahatchilaridan biri bo'lgan, Trampning so'zlarini aks ettirgani uchun tilni o'zgartirishni yoqlaganini aytdi.^[79][319] Garchi Tramp jamoasi tilni yumshatishdagi har qanday rolni rad etgan bo'lsa-da, Denman bu o'zgarish "albatta Tramp xodimlaridan kelganini" tasdiqladi.^[320]

Kayl Cheyni ning Politico bu o'zgarish "kampaniyaning radarida" bo'lganligini isbotlovchi dalillarni ko'rmoqda, chunki Karter Peyj platformaga tuzatish kiritilgandan bir kun o'tib elektron pochta orqali saylov kampaniyasi a'zolarini tabrikladi: "Ukrainadagi tuzatishga kelsak, juda yaxshi ish".^[321] Pol Manafort bu o'zgarish "mutlaqo Trump kampaniyasidan kelib chiqmagan" deb yolg'on gapirdi.^[322] Tramp aytdi Jorj Stefanopulos uning kampaniyasidagi odamlar GOPning Ukrainaga nisbatan pozitsiyasini o'zgartirish uchun javobgardilar, ammo u shaxsiy ishtirokini rad etdi.^[323]

Evropa va NATO bilan aloqalar

Vladimir Putin (2017)

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) ning ta'kidlashicha, a quid pro quo TRUMP jamoasi kelishuvga erishdi Boltiqbo'yi va Sharqiy Evropada AQSh / NATO mudofaasini Ukrainadan uzoqlashtirish uchun majburiyatlarni oshirish, mavzuni yaxshilab ko'rib chiqish zarur bo'lgan PUTIN uchun ustuvor vazifa. "^[186] Aiko Stivenson, yozmoqda HuffPost, Trumpning ba'zi harakatlari "Rossiyaga qarshi sanktsiyalarni bekor qilish, Ukrainadagi tajovuzkor harakatlariga ko'z yumish va g'arbiy ittifoqchilar o'rtasida bo'linish kelishmovchiligini o'z ichiga olgan" Putinning istaklar ro'yxati "bilan uyg'unlashayotganini ta'kidladi.^[324] Kampaniya davomida Trump "NATOni, Transatlantik xavfsizlikning markazini" eskirgan "deb atadi, Evropa Ittifoqining parchalanishini qo'llab-quvvatladi va Moskvaga qarshi sanktsiyalarni bekor qilishga ochiqligini aytdi".^[324] Hardingning qo'shimcha qilishicha, Tramp bir necha bor "AQSh ittifoqchilari NATO xazinasiga etarlicha pul to'ladimi yoki yo'qmi degan savolga".^[115] Jeff Seyn, yozish Newsweek, Trampning NATOga qilingan takroriy hujumlari qanday bo'lganligini tasvirlab berdi ... hafsalasi pir bo'ldi ... ittifoqchilar ... [va] prezidentning Evropa Ittifoqiga putur etkazish bo'yicha Putinning uzoq muddatli maqsadiga ko'maklashish uchun aldab qo'yilganmi yoki yo'qmi degan savollarni tug'dirdi. "^[325] Trampning ittifoqchilari, shu jumladan NATO va G7 bilan uchrashuvlarda chiqishlari ko'pincha antagonist bo'lib kelgan; ga ko'ra Los Anjeles Tayms, "Prezidentning yaqin ittifoqchilarga bo'lgan pozitsiyasi bu yil tobora va ajoyib tarzda qarama-qarshilikka ega bo'ldi, ayniqsa uning dushmanlarga, shu jumladan Rossiya va Shimoliy Koreyaga nisbatan murosali munosabati bilan taqqoslaganda."^[326]

Ayg'oqchi Rossiya elchixonasidan olib chiqildi

Ma'lumot manbalari (lar) da "etakchi rus diplomati Mixail KULAGIN" [sic ] AQSh saylovlariga aralashishda qatnashgan va Kreml uning aralashuvdagi roli oshkor bo'lishidan xavotir olganligi sababli Moskvaga chaqirib olingan. Keyinchalik BBC AQSh rasmiylari 2016 yilda rossiyalik diplomat Mixail Kaluginni ayg'oqchi deb topgani va u kuzatuv ostida bo'lganligi, shu bilan hujjatdagi asosiy da'voni "tasdiqlashi" haqida xabar berdi.^[174] Kalugin Rossiya elchixonasida iqtisod bo'limining rahbari bo'lgan. U Rossiyaga 2016 yil avgust oyida qaytib keldi.^[5] Makklatchining xabar berishicha, Federal qidiruv byurosi Kaluginning saylovlarga aralashishida rol o'ynaganligini tekshirmoqda. Kalugin bu ayblovlarni rad etdi.^[5][327]

Xakerlar tomonidan botnetlar va pornografik trafik

Aleksey Gubarevning "XBT / Webzilla va uning filiallari ishlatgan ayblovning asosliligi botnetlar viruslarni tarqatish, hasharotlarni ekish, ma'lumotlarni o'g'irlash va Demokratik partiya rahbariyatiga qarshi "o'zgartirish operatsiyalari" o'tkazish uchun pornografik trafik ".^[202] tomonidan muhrlanmagan hisobot bilan tasdiqlangan FTI konsalting tuhmat to'g'risidagi da'vo (lar) da Gubarev boshqalarga qarshi da'vo qilgan.^{[328][329][330]}

FTI Consulting hisobotida shunday deyilgan:

Janob Gubarevning kompaniyalari so'nggi o'n yil ichida kiberjinoyatchilar va Rossiya tomonidan davlat tomonidan homiylik qilingan aktyorlar uchun zararli dasturiy ta'minot bo'yicha keng ko'lamli kampaniyalarni boshlash va boshqarish uchun Internetga kirish eshiklarini taqdim etishdi. Gubarev va boshqa XBT rahbarlari kiberjinoyatchilarga ularning infratuzilmasidan foydalanishga faol to'sqinlik qilmayapti.^[328]

Cyber security and intelligence expert Andrew Weisburd has said both Gubarev and the dossier "can be right": "Their explanation is entirely plausible, as is the Steele Dossier's description of Mr. Gubarev as essentially a victim of predatory officers of one or more Russian intelligence services. ... Neither BuzzFeed nor Steele have accused Gubarev of being a willing participant in wrongdoing."^[203] XBT has denied the allegations, and "findings do not prove or disprove claims made about XBT in the dossier, but show how the company could have been used by cyber criminals, wittingly or unwittingly."^[203]

Ma'lumotnoma haqiqiyligi

Steele and the dossier have become "the central point of contention in the political brawl raging around"^[92] The Special counsel investigation ichiga Rossiyaning 2016 yilgi AQSh saylovlariga aralashuvi. Those who believe Steele consider him a hero who tried to warn about the Kremlin's meddling in the election, and people who distrust him consider him a "hired gun" used to attack Trump.^[92] Glenn Kessler has described the dossier as "a political Rorschach testi. Depending on your perspective, it's either a hoax used to defame a future president or a credible guide to allegations about Trump's involvement with Russia."^[34] Daily Telegraph reported that anonymous sources believe Russian intelligence agencies may have sought to create doubt about the veracity of the dossier.^[37]

The dossier's "broad assertion that Russia waged a campaign to interfere in the election is now accepted as fact by the US intelligence community."^[331] With the passage of time and further revelations from various investigations and sources, it is becoming clearer that the overall thrust of the dossier was accurate:^[117]

Some of the dossier's broad threads have now been independently corroborated. U.S. intelligence agencies and the special counsel's investigation into Russian election interference did eventually find that Kremlin-linked operatives ran an elaborate operation to promote Trump and hurt Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, as the dossier says in its main narrative.

— Jeff Donn, "Some Questions in Trump–Russia Dossier Now Finding Answers", Associated Press (June 29, 2018)^[117]

Shepard Smith said: "Some of the assertions in the dossier have been confirmed. Other parts are unconfirmed. None of the dossier, to Fox News's knowledge, has been disproven."^[167] In some cases, public verification is hindered because information is classified.^[332][333]

According to Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Shiff, a major portion of the dossier's content is about Russian efforts to help Trump, and those allegations "turned out to be true".^[334]

Keyin Myullerning hisoboti was released, Joshua Levy, counsel for Fusion GPS, issued this statement:

The Mueller Report substantiates the core reporting and many of the specifics in Christopher Steele's 2016 memoranda, including that Trump campaign figures were secretly meeting Kremlin figures, that Russia was conducting a covert operation to elect Donald Trump, and that the aim of the Russian operation was to sow discord and disunity in the US and within the Transatlantic Alliance. To our knowledge, nothing in the Steele memoranda has been disproven.^[34]

The Bosh inspektor tomonidan tergov Maykl E. Horovits, published December 9, 2019, expressed doubts about the dossier's reliability and sources:

The FBI concluded, among other things, that although consistent with known efforts by Russia to interfere in the 2016 U.S. elections, much of the material in the Steele election reports, including allegations about Donald Trump and members of the Trump campaign relied upon in the Carter Page FISA applications, could not be corroborated; that certain allegations were inaccurate or inconsistent with information gathered by the Crossfire Hurricane team; and that the limited information that was corroborated related to time, location, and title information, much of which was publicly available.^[335][42]

Adam Goldman va Charli Savage have described it as "deeply flawed" when they mentioned one unproven allegation and a statement by a source.^[36]

AQSh razvedka jamoatchiligidagi obro'-e'tibor

The process of evaluating Steele's information has been explained by Bill Priestap, at the time the Assistant Director of the Federal qidiruv byurosi qarshi razvedka bo'limi:

We did not ever take the information he provided at face value ... We went to great lengths to try to independently verify the source's credibility and to prove or disprove every single assertion in the dossier ... We absolutely understood that the information in the socalled dossier could be inaccurate. We also understood that some parts could be true and other parts false. We understood that information could be embellished or exaggerated. We also understood that the information could have been provided by the Russians as part of a disinformation campaign.^[42]

2017 yil 11-yanvar kuni, Pol Vud, ning BBC yangiliklari, wrote that the salacious information in Steele's dossier was also reported by "multiple intelligence sources" and "at least one East European intelligence service". They reported that "compromising material on Mr. Trump" included "more than one tape, not just video, but audio as well, on more than one date, in more than one place, in both Moscow and St. Petersburg."^[336] While also mentioning that "nobody should believe something just because an intelligence agent says it",^[337][152] Wood added that "the CIA believes it is credible that the Kremlin has such kompromat—or compromising material—on the next US commander in chief" and "a joint taskforce, which includes the CIA and the FBI, has been investigating allegations that the Russians may have sent money to Mr Trump's organisation or his election campaign".^{[336][338][337]}

On January 12, 2017, Susan Hennessey, a former Milliy xavfsizlik agentligi lawyer now with the Brukings instituti, said: "My general take is that the intelligence community and law enforcement seem to be taking these claims seriously. That itself is highly significant. But it is not the same as these allegations being verified. Even if this was an intelligence community document—which it isn't—this kind of raw intelligence is still treated with skepticism."^[339][340] Hennessey and Benjamin Vittes wrote that "the current state of the evidence makes a powerful argument for a serious public inquiry into this matter".^[340]

On February 10, 2017, CNN reported that some communications between "senior Russian officials and other Russian individuals" described in the dossier had been corroborated by multiple U.S. officials. They "took place between the same individuals on the same days and from the same locations as detailed in the dossier". Some persons were known to be "heavily involved" in collecting information that could hurt Clinton and aid Trump. CNN was unable to confirm whether conversations were related to Trump. Sources told CNN some conversations had been "intercepted during routine intelligence gathering", but refused to reveal the content of conversations or specify which communications were intercepted because the information was classified. U.S. officials said the corroboration gave "US intelligence and law enforcement 'greater confidence' in the credibility of some aspects of the dossier as they continue to actively investigate its contents". They also reported that American intelligence agencies had examined Steele and his "vast network throughout Europe and found him and his sources to be credible."^[29]

On March 30, 2017, Paul Wood reported that the FBI was using the dossier as a roadmap for its investigation.^[341] On January 13, 2019, Sonam Sheth reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was also using it as a roadmap for their investigation into Russia's election interference.^[342]

On April 18, 2017, CNN reported that, according to U.S. officials, information from the dossier had been used as part of the basis for getting the FISA warrant to monitor Page in October 2016.^[343][344] The IG report said the dossier did play a central role in the seeking of FISA warrants on Karter sahifasi^[42] FISA-ning past darajasini o'rnatish nuqtai nazaridan^[46] uchun mumkin bo'lgan sabab.^[47] Officials told CNN this information would have had to be independently corroborated by the FBI before being used to obtain the warrant.^[343][344] In his testimony before Congress, Glenn Simpson "confirmed that the FBI had sources of its own and that whatever the FBI learned from Steele was simply folded into its ongoing work."^[345]

Britaniyalik jurnalist Julian Borger wrote on October 7, 2017, that "Steele's reports are being taken seriously after lengthy scrutiny by federal and congressional investigators", at least Steele's assessment that Russia had conducted a campaign to interfere in the 2016 election to Clinton's detriment; that part of the Steele dossier "has generally gained in credibility, rather than lost it".^[5]

On October 11, 2017, it was reported that Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D. -Rod-Aylend ) a'zosi Senat Adliya qo'mitasi (SJC), had said: "As I understand it, a good deal of his information remains unproven, but none of it has been disproven, and considerable amounts of it have been proven."^[346]

On October 25, 2017, James Clapper said that "some of the substantive content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment which from other sources in which we had very high confidence."^[347][348]

On October 27, 2017, Robert S. Litt, a former lawyer for the Milliy razvedka direktori, was quoted as stating the dossier "played absolutely no role" in the intelligence community's determination that Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.^[349]

On November 15, 2017, Adam Shiff said much of the dossier's content is about Russian efforts to help Trump, and those allegations "turned out to be true", something later affirmed by the January 6, 2017, intelligence community assessment tomonidan chiqarilgan ODNI.^[334]

On December 7, 2017, commentator Jonathan Chait wrote that as "time goes by, more and more of the claims first reported by Steele have been borne out", with the mainstream media "treat[ing] [the dossier] as gossip" whereas the intelligence community "take it seriously".^[26]

On January 29, 2018, a House Intelligence Committee minority report stated that "multiple independent sources ... corroborated Steele's reporting".^[347]

On January 29, 2018, Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said "little of that dossier has either been fully proven or conversely, disproven".^[350][351]

John Sipher, who served 28 years as a clandestine CIA agent, including heading the agency's Russia program, said investigating the allegations requires access to non-public records. He said "[p]eople who say it's all garbage, or all true, are being politically biased", adding he believes that while the dossier may not be correct in every detail, it is "generally credible" and "In the intelligence business, you don't pretend you're a hundred per cent accurate. If you're seventy or eighty per cent accurate, that makes you one of the best." He said the Mueller investigation would ultimately judge its merits.^[21] Sipher has written that "Many of my former CIA colleagues have taken the [dossier] reports seriously since they were first published."^[192]

During his April 15, 2018, ABC News interview with Jorj Stefanopulos, former FBI Director Jeyms Komi described Steele as a "credible source, someone with a track record, someone who was a credible and respected member of an allied intelligence service during his career, and so it was important that we try to understand it, and see what could we verify, what could we rule in or rule out."^[352]

In May 2018, former career intelligence officer Jeyms Klapper believed that "more and more" of the dossier had been validated over time.^[353][354]

James Comey told the Office of the Inspector General that:

in his view, the "heart of the [Steele] reporting was that there's a massive Russian effort to influence the American election and weaponize stolen information." Comey said he believed those themes from the Steele reporting were "entirely consistent with information developed by the [USIC] wholly separate and apart from the [Steele] reporting", as well as consistent with what "our eyes and ears could also see".^[42]

When DOJ Inspector General Maykl E. Horovits issued a report in December 2019 on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, the report noted that the "FBI Intel Section Chief told us that the CIA viewed the Steele reporting as 'internet rumor'."^[42][355]

Faylning to'g'riligini turli xil kuzatishlar

Steele, the author of the dossier, said he believes that 70–90% of the dossier is accurate,^[68][51] although he gives the "golden showers" allegation a 50% chance of being true.^[51] In testimony to Congress, Simpson quoted "Steele as saying that any intelligence, especially from Russia, is bound to carry intentional disinformation, but that Steele believes his dossier is 'largely not disinformation'."^[117] Steele has countered the suggestion that the Russians deliberately fed his sources misinformation that would undermine Trump: "The ultimate Russian goal was to prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president, and therefore, the idea that they would intentionally spread embarrassing information about Trump—true or not—is not logical."^[13]

The Inspector General's investigative team examined how seriously the FBI Crossfire Hurricane team had considered "whether Steele's election reports, or aspects of them, were the product of a Russian disinformation campaign". Bill Priestap explained to the OIG that by May 2017, after examining several possibilities for how disinformation could affect Steele's reporting, the FBI "didn't have any indication whatsoever that the Russians were running a disinformation campaign through the Steele election reporting". He further explained how it would make no sense for the Russians, who favored Trump, "to run a disinformation campaign to denigrate Trump on the side". The IG Report also said Steele explained how sophisticated the Russians were at planting and controlling misinformation, but he "had no evidence that his reporting was 'polluted' with Russian disinformation".^[42]

Other observers and experts have had varying reactions to the dossier. Generally, "former intelligence officers and other national-security experts" urged "skepticism and caution" but still took "the fact that the nation's top intelligence officials chose to present a summary version of the dossier to both President Obama and President-elect Trump" as an indication "that they may have had a relatively high degree of confidence that at least some of the claims therein were credible, or at least worth investigating further".^[339]

Vitse prezident Jo Bayden told reporters that, while he and Obama were receiving a briefing on the extent of election hacking attempts, there was a two-page addendum which addressed the contents of the Steele dossier.^[119] Top intelligence officials told them they "felt obligated to inform them about uncorroborated allegations about President-elect Donald Trump out of concern the information would become public and catch them off-guard".^[356]

2017 yil 11-yanvar kuni, Newsweek published a list of "13 things that don't add up" in the dossier, writing that it was a "strange mix of the amateur and the insightful" and stating that it "contains lots of Kremlin-related gossip that could indeed be, as the author claims, from deep insiders—or equally gleaned" from Russian newspapers and blogs.^[357] Former UK ambassador to Russia Sir Toni Brenton said certain aspects of the dossier were inconsistent with British intelligence's understanding of how the Kremlin works, commenting: "I've seen quite a lot of intelligence on Russia, and there are some things in [the dossier] which look pretty shaky."^[358]

In his June 2017 Senate Intelligence Committee testimony, former FBI director Jeyms Komi said "some personally sensitive aspects" of the dossier were unverified when he briefed Trump on them on January 6, 2017.^[359] Comey also said he could not say publicly whether any of the allegations in the dossier had been confirmed.^[332]

Trump and his supporters have challenged the veracity of the dossier because it was funded in part by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, while Democrats assert the funding source is irrelevant.^[360]

In June 2019, investigators for Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found Steele's testimony surprising^[361] va uning "tergovni uzaytirishi uchun etarlicha ishonchli ma'lumot".^[362]

In November 2019, the founders of Fusion GPS published a book about the dossier and had this to say about its veracity:

After three years of investigations, a fair assessment of the memos would conclude that many of the allegations in the dossier have been borne out. Some proved remarkably prescient. Other details remain stubbornly unconfirmed, while a handful now appear to be doubtful, though not yet disproven.^[57]

David A. Graham of Atlantika has noted that in spite of Trump's "mantra that 'there was no collusion' ... it is clear that the Trump campaign and later transition were eager to work with Russia, and to keep that secret."^[363]

Adam Goldman va Charli Savage ning The New York Times have described the impact of some of the flaws in the dossier:

But its flaws have taken on outsized political significance, as Mr. Trump's allies have sought to conflate it with the larger effort to understand Russia's covert efforts to tilt the 2016 election in his favor and whether any Trump campaign associates conspired in that effort. Mr. Mueller laid out extensive details about Russia's covert operation and contacts with Trump campaign associates, but found insufficient evidence to bring any conspiracy charges.^[36]

Manbalar va ularning da'volari o'rtasidagi farqlar

One of the findings of the 2019 Inspector General's report related to conflicting accounts of sourced content in the dossier. When Steele's Primary Sub-source was later interviewed by the FBI about the allegations sourced to them, he gave accounts which conflicted with Steele's renderings in the dossier and implied that Steele "misstated or exaggerated" their statements.^[42][28] Federal qidiruv byurosi agenti Piter Strzok wrote that "Recent interviews and investigation, however, reveal Steele may not be in a position to judge the reliability of his subsource network."^[28]

The IG found it difficult to discern the causes for the discrepancies between some allegations and explanations later provided to the FBI by the sources for those allegations. The IG attributed the discrepancies to three possible factors:

These included miscommunications between Steele and the Primary Sub-source, exaggerations or misrepresentations by Steele about the information he obtained, or misrepresentations by the Primary Sub-source and/or sub-sources when questioned by the FBI about the information they conveyed to Steele or the Primary Sub-source.^[42]

Another factor was attempts by sources to distance themselves from the content attributed to them:

FBI documents reflect that another of Steele's sub-sources who reviewed the election reporting told the FBI in August 2017 that whatever information in the Steele reports that was attributable to him/her had been "exaggerated" and that he/she did not recognize anything as originating specifically from him/her. 347 The Primary Sub-source told the FBI that he/she believed this sub-source was "one of the key sources for the 'Trump dossier'" and the source for allegations concerning Michael Cohen and events in Prague contained in Reports 135, 136, and 166, as well as Report 94's allegations concerning the alleged meeting between Carter Page and Igor Divyekin.^[42]

The Supervisory Intel Analyst believed this key sub-source "may have been attempting to minimize his/her role in the [dossier's] election reporting following its release to the public".^[42]

The FBI found that Igor Danchenko, the Primary sub-source, was "truthful and cooperative",^[42][36] but the Supervisory Intel Analyst said that "it was his impression that the Primary Sub-source may not have been 'completely truthful' and may have been minimizing certain aspects of what he/she told Steele".^[42]

The outing of Danchenko also brought to light an inaccuracy in the dossier, which describes him as a "Russian-based" source. In fact, although he traveled to Russia to gather information, and his source network is mostly in Russia, he is a Ukrainian-born and Russian-trained lawyer, researcher, and expert in Russian politics who lives in the United States.^[36]

Tergov mavzusi va fitna nazariyalari

Tergov

Federal qidiruv byurosi "Crossfire Hurricane" operatsiyasi investigation into Russian interference, which started on July 31, 2016, was not triggered by the dossier,^{[40][43][44][89]} but the dossier is still the subject of the Rossiya tergovi kontr-rivoyatdan kelib chiqadi, a conspiracy theory pushed by Trump and Fox News.

The Myullerning hisoboti, topilmalarining xulosasi Special Counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, contained passing references to some of the dossier's allegations but little mention of its more sensational claims. It was a major subject of the Nunes xotirasi, the Democratic rebuttal memo,^[2] va Crossfire Hurricane tergovi bo'yicha Bosh inspektorning hisoboti.

The investigations led to Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson being interviewed in August 2017 by Congress.^[3]

John Durham has been investigating whether FBI agents "mishandled classified information" about operation Crossfire Hurricane when they questioned Steele. The IG report documents that a case agent mentioned Papadopoulos to Steele. The FBI has no "established guidelines for how to address the disclosure of sensitive or classified information to sources", and the Inspector General "concluded that the case agent should not be faulted".^[364]

Durham sought to get more information by seeking access to evidence gathered in a British lawsuit filed by the founders of Alfa Bank. A July 21, 2020, court filing shows that Durham has sought the lifting of "a protective order on evidence that had been gathered". Politico wrote that legal experts said this move was "highly unusual... and suggests the British government was not involved in, or cooperating with, Durham's criminal investigation".^[364]

Fitna nazariyalari

The Rossiya tergovi kontr-rivoyatdan kelib chiqadi^[365] is a right-wing alternative narrative,^[366][367] sometimes identified as a conspiracy theory,^{[368][369][370][371][372]} concerning the origins of the Maxsus advokatning tekshiruvi ichiga Rossiyaning 2016 yilgi AQSh saylovlariga aralashuvi. These conspiracy theories^[38][39] have been pushed by Trump,^[40] Fox News,^[41] GOP politicians like Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio),^[38] and Trump's Milliy razvedka direktori Jon Ratkliff.^[373] In May 2019, U.S. Attorney General Uilyam Barr tayinlangan Jon Durham ijro etish an inquiry based on this conspiracy theory, an inquiry described as a yashirish to protect Trump.^[374][375] On November 2, 2020, the day before the presidential election, Nyu York magazine reported that:

... there has been no evidence found, after 18 months of investigation, to support Barr's claims that Trump was targeted by politically biased Obama officials to prevent his election. (The probe remains ongoing.) In fact, the sources said, the Durham investigation has so far uncovered no evidence of any wrongdoing by Biden or Barack Obama, or that they were even involved with the Russia investigation. There 'was no evidence ... not even remotely ... indicating Obama or Biden did anything wrong,' as one person put it.^[376]

The conspiracy theory aims to prove the dossier was used as an excuse for the FBI to start their Rossiya tergovi. It also aims to discredit Steele and thus discredit the whole investigation.^[377] The dossier could not have had any role in the opening of the Russia investigation on July 31, 2016, as top FBI officials received the dossier the following September.^[378] Instead, it was the activities of George Papadopoulos which started the investigation.^[379] The investigation by Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz into Russian interference and alleged FISA abuses found that "none of the evidence used to open the [original Crossfire Hurricane FBI] investigation" came from the C.I.A. or Trump–Russia dossier.^[44]

The founders of Fusion GPS did not expect their connections to Bruce and Nellie Ohr, Steele, Hillary Clinton, and the FBI to "become public and subsequently provide the framework for a deep-state conspiracy theory".^[60]

The dossier also figures as part of the Spygate fitna nazariyasi va conspiracy theories related to the Trump–Ukraine scandal. Ga binoan The Wall Street Journal, President Trump's actions in the Trump-Ukraina mojarosi stemmed from his belief that Ukraine was responsible for the Steele Dossier.^[380][381] Trump has insinuated that the dossier had its origins in Ukraine, that the Clintons were involved, that Hillary Clinton's email server is currently secreted in Ukraine,^[382] and that Clinton's deleted emails are in Ukraine.^[371]

The dossier is central to Republican assertions that Trump is the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy to take him down. Democrats see this focus on the dossier as conspiratorial.^[383] Congressman Devin Nunes, a staunch Trump defender, asserted as fact that the dossier originated in Ukraine during his questioning of EU ambassador Gordon Sondlend davomida Trampga nisbatan impichment bo'yicha surishtiruv hearings in September 2019.^[384]

Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan have pushed a conspiracy theory that the dossier was based on Russian disinformation.^[370] The Inspector General's investigative team and the FBI did examine this possibility, but Bill Priestap explained to the OIG that the FBI found no indications that such disinformation affected the dossier, and that it would make no sense for the Russians to undermine Trump.^[42]

Muayyan ayblovlarni rad etish

Maykl Koen

Media-ni ijro etish

Cohen's attorney, Leni Devis, says (at 8:50) Cohen was "never, ever" in Prague.

Dossier source(s) allege that Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, met with Oleg Solodukhin and other Russian officials in Prague in 2016 with the objective of paying those who had hacked the DNC and to "cover up all traces of the hacking operation". Cohen has denied the allegations against him,^{[66][115][116]} stating that he was in Los Angeles between August 23 and 29, and in New York for the entire month of September^[385] and that "I have never been to Prague in my life".^[386] However, Cohen has twice admitted having previously visited Prague, with the visit either being in 2001 or 2002.^[177][309]

Cohen claimed that he was in Capri with Steven Van Zandt at the time of the alleged 2016 Prague trip, but Van Zandt's wife, Maureen, said they met in Rome, not Capri.^[311] Cohen stated that he had receipts that showed that he was in Capri, but he did not show them.^[116]

Aleksey Gubarev

Gubarev has denied all accusations made in the dossier.^[202][203] The accusations are twofold, as they mention Gubarev and his companies. While it has been proven that his companies were used to facilitate cybercrimes,^{[328][329][330]}Andrew Weisburd has said that "Neither BuzzFeed nor Steele have accused Gubarev of being a willing participant in wrongdoing."^[203]

Pol Manafort

Manafort has "denied taking part in any collusion with the Russian state, but registered himself as a foreign agent retroactively after it was revealed his firm received more than $17m working as a lobbyist for a pro-Russian Ukrainian party."^[5]

Karter sahifasi

Page originally denied meeting any Russian officials, but his later testimony, acknowledging that he had met with senior Russian officials at Rosneft, has been interpreted as corroboration of portions of the dossier.^{[288][284][285]}

Donald Tramp

Trump has denied the "golden showers " allegation, insisting it couldn't be true because he is a "germaphobe "^[387] and did not stay overnight in Moscow at the time of the Miss Universe contest in 2013.^[238][240]

The latter claim was soon shown to be false.^[244][239]

Ma'lumotlar to'plamiga reaktsiyalar

November 14, 2017—Uyning razvedka qo'mitasi transcript of Glenn Simpson

August 22, 2017, Fusion GPS testimony transcript of Glenn Simpson

Tramp

Donald Trump's first Twitter reaction to the dossier was a January 10, 2017, tweet: "FAKE NEWS—A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!",^[388][389] a view echoed the next day by the Kremlin: "absolute fabrication".^[389] Trump has repeatedly condemned the dossier and denied collusion with Russia, including in this December 26, 2017, tweet, in which he quotes from Tulki va Do'stlar:^[165]

Trump has called the dossier "soxta yangiliklar " and criticized the intelligence and media sources that published it.^[391] During a press conference on January 11, 2017, Trump denounced the dossier's claims as false, saying it was "disgraceful" for U.S. intelligence agencies to report them.^[392] In response to Trump's criticism, CNN said it had published "carefully sourced reporting" on the matter which had been "matched by the other major news organizations", as opposed to BuzzFeed's posting of "unsubstantiated claims".^[131]

The Wall Street Journal reported that the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid a total of $12.4 million to Perkins Coie for legal and compliance services during the 2016 campaign.^[393] This led Trump to claim the dossier had cost $12 million.^[64][394] The actual cost was far less.^[395] According to Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie paid them $1.02 million in fees and expenses, and Fusion GPS paid $168,000 to Steele's firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, to produce the dossier.^[64][396] Despite that, Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. continued to claim for more than a year that Steele was paid "millions of dollars" for his work.^[397]

A footnote in the Mueller Report revealed that Trump requested James Comey and James Clapper to publicly refute the dossier. The two men then exchanged emails about the request, with Clapper saying that "Trump wanted him to say the dossier was 'bogus, which, of course, I can't do'."^[398][57]

On July 11, 2020, Trump tweeted that Steele should be extradited.^[399]

Myullerning hisoboti

In July 2019, Special Agent in Charge David Archey briefed the Senatning razvedka qo'mitasi about certain aspects of the Special Counsel Office's (SCO) "investigative process and information management":

We [the SCO] were aware of the Steele dossier, obviously. We were aware of some of the efforts that went into its verification ... we did not include Steele dossier reporting in the report. ... [T]hose allegations go to the heart of things that were in our mandate—but we believed our own investigation. The information that we collected would have superseded it, and been something we would have relied on more, and that's why you see what we did in the report and not the Steele dossier in the report.^[12]

He "declined to provide further information on whether FBI or SCO attempted to verify information in the dossier, although he noted that the SCO did not draw on the dossier to support its conclusions."^[12]

Boshqalar

Russia has backed Trump by attacking the dossier and denying its allegations, calling it an "absolute fabrication" and "a hoax intended to further damage U.S.–Russian relations".^[389]

As Putin's press secretary, Peskov insisted in an interview that the dossier is a fraud, saying "I can assure you that the allegations in this funny paper, in this so-called report, they are untrue. They are all fake."^[400] Putin called the people who leaked the dossier "worse than prostitutes"^[401] and referred to the dossier itself as "rubbish".^[402] Putin went on to state he believed the dossier was "clearly fake",^[403] fabricated as a plot against the legitimacy of President-elect Trump.^[404]

Some of Steele's former colleagues expressed support for his character, saying "The idea his work is fake or a cowboy operation is false—completely untrue. Chris is an experienced and highly regarded professional. He's not the sort of person who will simply pass on gossip."^[405]

Among journalists, Bob Vudvord called the dossier a "garbage document",^[406] esa Karl Bernshteyn took the opposite view: "It's not fake news, otherwise senior-most intelligence chiefs would not have done this."^[407] Ben Smit, muharriri BuzzFeed, wrote: "The dossier is a document ... of obvious central public importance. It's the subject of multiple investigations by intelligence agencies, by Congress. That was clear a year ago. It's a lot clearer now."^[408]

Ynet, Isroilning onlayn yangiliklar sayti, 2017 yil 12-yanvar kuni AQSh razvedkasi Stilning hisoboti tomonidan taklif qilingan Rossiyaning Trampga ta'sir qilish ehtimoli to'liq bo'lgunga qadar, Isroil razvedka xizmatiga kelgan Tramp ma'muriyati bilan ma'lumot almashishda ehtiyot bo'lishni maslahat berganini xabar qildi. tekshirildi.^[267]

On January 2, 2018, Simpson and Fritsch authored an op-ed in The New York Times, requesting that Republicans "release full transcripts of our firm's testimony" and further wrote that, "the Steele dossier was not the trigger for the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp."^[70] Ken Dilanian of NBC News said a "source close to Fusion GPS" told him the FBI had not planted anyone in the Trump camp, but rather that Simpson was referring to Papadopoulos.^[409][100]

On January 4, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled on Trump's repeated tweets describing the dossier as "fake" or "discredited":

None of the tweets inescapably lead to the inference that the President's statements about the Dossier are rooted in information he received from the law enforcement and intelligence communities ... The President's statements may very well be based on media reports or his own personal knowledge, or could simply be viewed as political statements intended to counter media accounts about the Russia investigation, rather than assertions of pure fact.^[410]

On January 5, 2018, in the first known Congressional jinoiy yo'llanma resulting from investigations related to the Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, Grassley made a referral to the Justice Department suggesting that they investigate possible criminal charges against Steele^[411][412] for allegedly making false statements to the FBI about the distribution of the dossier's claims,^[413] specifically possible "inconsistencies" in what Steele told authorities and "possibly lying to FBI officials".^[414] Senator Lindsi Grem also signed the letter.^[415][416] Both Grassley and Graham declared that they were not alleging that Steele "had committed any crime. Rather, they had passed on the information for 'further investigation only'."^[417] The referral was met with skepticism from legal experts, as well as some of the other Republicans and Democrats on the Judiciary committee, who reportedly had not been consulted.^[415]

On January 8, 2018, a spokesman for Grassley said he did not plan to release the transcript of Simpson's August 22, 2017, testimony before the SJC.^[418] The next day, ranking committee member Senator Dianne Faynshteyn unilaterally released the transcript.^[111][419]

On January 10, 2018, Fox News host Shon Xanniti appeared to have advance information on the forthcoming release of the Nunes memo and its assertions about the dossier, saying "more shocking information will be coming out in just days that will show systemic FISA abuse." Hannity asserted that this new information would reveal "a totally phony document full of Russian lies and propaganda that was then used by the Obama administration to surveil members of an opposition party and incoming president," adding that this was "the real Russia collusion story" that represented a "precipice of one of the largest abuses of power in U.S. American history. And I'm talking about the literal shredding of the U.S. Constitution."^[420]

2018 yil aprel oyida Oq uy muxbirlari assotsiatsiyasi (WHCA) gave The Merriman Smith Memorial Award to CNN reporters Evan Perez, Jim Ssiutto, Jeyk Tapper va Karl Bernshteyn. In January 2017, they reported that the intelligence community had briefed Obama and Trump of allegations that Russians claimed to have "compromising personal and financial information" on then-President elect Donald Trump.^[123][421] WHCA noted that "[t]hanks to this CNN investigation, 'the dossier' is now part of the lexicon".^[422]

As late as July 29, 2018, Trump continued to falsely insist the FBI investigation of Russian interference was initiated because of the dossier, and three days later White House press secretary Sara Sanders repeated the false assertion. Fox News boshlovchisi Shepard Smit said of Trump's assertion: "In the main and in its parts, that statement is patently false."^[423]

Alan Xafman, an expert on opposition research, has compared the two forms of opposition research represented by the dossier and WikiLeaks. U "bir oz g'alati" bo'lsa-da, hujjatning razvedka ma'lumotlarini noqonuniy ekanligiga ishonmadi, shu bilan birga u "noqonuniy yo'l bilan olingan bo'lishi mumkin" bo'lgan WikiLeaks-ning katta miqdordagi hujjatlaridan bezovta edi.^[424]

2020 yil mart oyida Stil ma`lumotnomani ochiqchasiga izohlab, shunday dedi: "Men o'z ishimiz, manbalarimiz va qilgan ishlarimiz yaxlitligini qo'llab-quvvatlayman".^[1]

Sud jarayoni

Qarshi BuzzFeed yangiliklari va Fusion GPS

Gubarev tomonidan topshirilgan

2017 yil 3 fevralda XBT texnologik kompaniyasi rahbari va hujjatda ko'rsatilgan shaxs Aleksey Gubarev sudga berdi. BuzzFeed yangiliklari tuhmat uchun. Da'vo qilingan da'vo Broward okrugi, Florida sud, XBT ishlatgan "ma'lumotlar to'plamidagi da'volar bo'yicha markazlar botnetlar viruslarni tarqatish, hasharotlarni ekish, ma'lumotlarni o'g'irlash va Demokratik partiya rahbariyatiga qarshi 'o'zgartirish operatsiyalari' o'tkazish uchun pornografiya.^[202][425] In Oliy adliya sudi, Stilning advokatlari ularning mijozlari hisobotlarning chiqarilishini niyat qilmaganligini va hisobotlardan biri "tahlil qilinishi va qo'shimcha tekshirilishi / tekshirilishi zarurligini" aytdi.^[426] Sud da'vosiga javoban, BuzzFeed yangiliklari biznes-maslahat firmasini yollagan FTI konsalting hujjatning da'volarini tekshirish uchun.^[427] BuzzFeed yangiliklari DNC ni tuhmat ayblovlaridan himoyasini kuchaytiradi deb hisoblagan ma'lumotni oshkor qilishga majburlash maqsadida sudga bergan.^[428] Fusion GPS "bu ma'lumotni taqdim qilmaganligini da'vo qilmoqda BuzzFeed".^[429]

Gubarev tomonidan ularga qarshi tuhmat da'vosi bilan bog'liq holda, 2017 yil 30-iyun kuni, BuzzFeed yangiliklari Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi, Federal qidiruv byurosi va Milliy razvedka direktori idorasini chaqirdi. Ular, shuningdek, "ishdan bo'shatilgan FBI direktori Jeyms Komidan, shuningdek DNIning sobiq vakili Jeyms Klapper va Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi direktori Jon Brennandan guvohlik" olishlarini so'rashdi. Ular foydalanishdan manfaatdor edilar kashfiyot jarayoni hujjatning tarqatilishi, uning hukumat amaldorlari orasida qanday tarqalishi va "federal hukumatning ushbu hujjat bo'yicha tekshiruvining mavjudligi va ko'lami" haqida ma'lumot olish. Ular ma'lumot kuchaytirilishiga umid qilishdi BuzzFeed'hujjatning nashr etilishi adolatli hisobot imtiyozi bilan himoyalangan, bu rasmiy hukumat yozuvlari asosida hisobotlarni immunizatsiya qilishi mumkin degan da'vo.^[430] 2018 yil 4-iyun kuni sudya Ursula Ungaro buni hukm qildi BuzzFeed yangiliklari hujjatni va unga qo'shib yozilgan maqolani nashr etish uchun "adolatli hisobot imtiyozi" ni talab qilishi mumkin BuzzFeed's mudofaasi.^[431]

Kiber xavfsizlik va razvedka mutaxassisi Endryu Vaysburd Gubarev ham, hujjatlar ham "to'g'ri bo'lishi mumkin" dedi: "Ularning izohlashi mutlaqo ishonarli. Stil Dossier janob Gubarevni aslida bir yoki bir nechta rus razvedkasining yirtqich ofitserlari qurbonlari sifatida ta'riflaganidek xizmatlar. ... ham BuzzFeed shuningdek, Stil Gubarevni huquqbuzarlikning tayyor ishtirokchisi deb ayblamagan. "^[203]

2018 yil 19-dekabr kuni sudya Ursula Ungaro yon tomonga o'tdi BuzzFeed yangiliklari himoya qilib, Gubarev tomonidan berilgan tuhmat da'vosida BuzzFeed'nashr etish imtiyozi va jamoatchilikning Trampga qarshi ayblovlar to'g'risida bilish huquqi.^{[142][432][19]}

BuzzFeed yangiliklari Gubarev ismini e'lon qilgani uchun uzr so'radi va uni qayta o'zgartirdi.^[117]

Fridman, Aven va Xan tomonidan yozilgan

2017 yil may oyida, Mixail Fridman, Petr Aven va German Xoni - egalari Alfa banki - tuhmatga qarshi da'vo qo'zg'atdi BuzzFeed yangiliklari tasdiqlanmagan hujjatni nashr qilish uchun,^[433][434] Putin, Tramp va uchta bank egalari o'rtasidagi moliyaviy aloqalar va kelishuvni tasvirlaydi.^[435][436]

2017 yil oktabr oyida Fridman, Aven va Xan shuningdek, Fusion GPS va Glenn Simpsonga qarshi jurnalistlar o'rtasida hujjatlarni tarqatish va nashr etishga ruxsat berish uchun tuhmat da'vo arizasi berishdi.^[437]

Asosidagi ish bekor qilindi SLAPPga qarshi qonun chunki Stilning nutqi Birinchi o'zgartirish, odatda AQShda bo'lmagan fuqarolar / rezidentlar tomonidan AQShdagi nutqni himoya qiladi.^[438][439]

Maykl Koen tomonidan yozilgan

2018 yil 9-yanvar kuni Maykl Koen sudga berdi BuzzFeed yangiliklari va Fusion GPS uchun tuhmat hujjatdagi u haqidagi ayblovlar ustidan.^[440] 2018 yil 19 aprelda, uyi, ish joyi va mehmonxona xonasi Federal qidiruv byurosi tomonidan olib borilgan jinoyat ishi bo'yicha tergovdan o'n kun o'tib, Koen da'voni ixtiyoriy ravishda rad etish to'g'risida iltimosnoma kiritdi.^{[441][442][443]}

Devin Nunes tomonidan taqdim etilgan

2019 yil 4 sentyabrda Devin Nunes a reketchilik Federal sudda Fusion GPS-ga qarshi 10 million dollarlik tovon puli undirish to'g'risidagi da'vo. U ularni ta'qib qilishda aybladi va Fusion GPS-ning Trampning 2016 yilgi kampaniyaga Rossiyaning aralashuvi bilan bog'liqligi haqida shubha tug'dirishdagi rolini tekshirishda to'sqinlik qildi. Ushbu da'vo 2020 yil 21 fevralda bekor qilingan.^[444][445]

Stil va Orbis Business Intelligence-ga qarshi

2018 yil 16 aprelda Alfa Bank egalari Fridman, Aven va Xan Stil va Orbis Business Intelligence kompaniyalariga qarshi tuhmat da'vo arizasini berishdi,^[446] chunki bu hujjatda Putin, Tramp va uchta bank egalari o'rtasidagi moliyaviy aloqalar va kelishuv tasvirlangan.^[435][436] Sud da'volari Vashington shahrida bo'lib o'tdi.^[446] Stilning advokatlari ushbu uch kishini qo'rqitishda ayblab, ishni tugatish to'g'risida ikkita iltimosnoma berishdi.^[447]

2018 yil 20 avgustda sudya Kolumbiya okrugining yuqori sudi tuhmat kostyumini tashladi. Ish shunday edi xurofot bilan ishdan bo'shatilgan huquqshunoslarning Orbis Business Intelligence kompaniyasining taklifiga javoban.^[138][139] Ma'lumotnoma "to'g'ri yoki aniq emas" ekanligini baholamasdan, sudya Stil tomonidan himoyalanganligini aniqladi Birinchi o'zgartirish, bu himoya qiladi so'z erkinligi. U, shuningdek, Kolumbiya okrugiga qarshi o'tkazilganYalang'ochlash tanqidchilarni jim qilish uchun beparvolik da'volarini berishga to'sqinlik qiluvchi qonun. Shuningdek, u jamoat manfaati uchun muhimligini ta'kidlab o'tdi: "Stil hujjati AQShda juda katta qiziqish va e'tiborni keltirib chiqardi, chunki uning mazmuni bu erdagi faol jamoatchilik bahslari bilan bog'liq."^[140]

2020 yil 18-iyun kuni apellyatsiya sudi Stil va Orbis Business Intelligence kompaniyalariga qarshi tuhmat to'g'risidagi da'vosining bekor qilinishini qo'llab-quvvatladi.^[448]

Alfa Bank sheriklari Petr Aven, Mixail Fridman va German Xan Britaniyada Steele xususiy razvedka firmasi Orbis Business Intelligence-ga qarshi tuhmat uchun sud ishlarini olib borishdi. 2020 yil iyul oyida, Adliya Uorbi Qirolicha skameykasi Inglizlar bo'limi Oliy adliya sudi Orbisga Aven va Fridmanga ziyon etkazishni buyurdi, ular Stilning ta'kidlashicha, Putin Sankt-Peterburg meri o'rinbosari bo'lganida Vladimir Putinga "juda ko'p miqdordagi noqonuniy naqd pulni etkazib bergan". Sudya Uorbi da'voni "noto'g'ri va chalg'ituvchi" deb topdi.^[35] va "vazifani buzish natijasida avtonomiyani yo'qotish, qayg'u va obro'siga etkazilgan zararni qoplash" uchun etkazilgan zararni qopladi. Sudyaning ta'kidlashicha, Stilning hujjatlari Aven va Fridmanlarning Putinga tashqi siyosat bo'yicha maslahatlar bergani haqida noto'g'ri ma'lumot bergan.^[449]

Aleksey Gubarev Stilga qarshi "tuhmatga oid jiddiy ayblovlar" qo'yilgani uchun tuhmat ishini qo'zg'atdi.^[450] Orbis / Stil tomonidan "Dekabr memorandumi" ning nashr etilishi uchun mas'ulmi yoki yo'qmi degan savol tug'ildi BuzzFeed, Stil tomonidan rad etilgan ayblov. Sudlanuvchilar buni aytishdi BuzzFeed'Memorandumning nashr etilishi "ruxsatsiz" bo'lgan va ular "dekabr memorandumini yoki uning mazmuni jamoatchilikka oshkor qilinishini niyat qilmagan (va) dekabr memorandumini taqdim etmagan BuzzFeed yoki boshqa har qanday media tashkilot. "^[16] Senatning Razvedka qo'mitasi "Fusion GPS-ning Perkins Coie uchun ishi saylov kuni yakunlandi. Stilning yakuniy memorandumi 2016 yil 13-dekabrda yakunlandi. Hech kim bunga pul to'lamadi" deb yozgan edi.^[12]

2020 yil 30 oktyabrda Oliy sud Stil foydasiga qaror chiqarganida, Gubarev tuhmat ishini yo'qotdi. Sudya Uorbi Gubarev haqidagi ayblovlar haqiqatan ham tuhmat ekanligini va ularning nashr etilishi "uning obro'siga jiddiy zarar etkazishini" tushuntirdi, ammo Gubarev Stilning hujjatning nashr etilishi uchun mas'ul ekanligini isbotlay olmadi va shuning uchun u zararni to'lamasligi kerakligini tushuntirdi. .^[451]

DNC va Perkins Coie-ga qarshi

2018 yil oktyabr oyida Karter Peyj DNC, Perkins Coie va Perkins Coie kompaniyasining ikki sherigini tuhmat uchun sudga berdi.^[452][453] Sud da'vosi 2019 yil 31 yanvarda bekor qilingan. Peyj ushbu qaror ustidan shikoyat qilmoqchi ekanligini aytdi.^[453][454]

2020 yil 30-yanvarda Peyj DNC va Perkins Coie-ga qarshi tuhmat ishi bo'yicha yana bir da'vo arizasi bilan sudlanib, Mark Elias va Maykl Sussmanni ayblanuvchi sifatida ko'rsatdi.^[455]

Myuller va DOJga qarshi

2020 yil 17-iyun kuni Georgi Rtsxiladze Robert Myuller va Adliya vazirligini Myuller hisobotidagi izohda Rtsxiladzening zikr qilinishi bilan bog'liq tuhmat uchun sudga berdi. Rtsxiladzening ta'kidlashicha, u izohda "rossiyalik tadbirkor" sifatida soxta shaxs sifatida tanilgan. U tug'ilgan AQSh fuqarosi Gruziya, avvalgi Sovet respublikasi, 1991 yilda AQShga hijrat qilgan. U "100 million dollarlik tovon puli va DOJni Myullerning hisobotida kelgusida keltirilgan barcha murojaatlarni shoshilinch ravishda olib tashlashga majbur qiladigan buyruq izlamoqda".^[456]

AQShning saylov to'g'risidagi qonunlari bilan bog'liq huquqiy maqom

Ma'lumotnomaning huquqiy maqomi bog'liqdir FEC chet el fuqarolarini siyosiy kampaniyalarga hissa qo'shishni taqiqlovchi qonunlar va bu nafaqat naqd xayr-ehsonlar, balki har qanday yordam turlariga ham tegishli. Ma'lumotlar to'plami va 2016 yildagi Trump Tower yig'ilishi bu borada tez-tez qarama-qarshi bo'lib turadi. Muammo shundaki, a o'rtasidagi huquqiy farq saylov kampaniyasi xarajatlari va saylov kampaniyasida ishtirok etish hissasi.

Filipp Bump "nima uchun Trump Tower yig'ilishi qonunni buzgan bo'lishi mumkin va ehtimol Steele hujjati buzilmaganligini" tushuntirdi:^[457] "Tadqiqot o'tkazish uchun xorijiy partiyani yollash juda farq qiladi, shu jumladan qonuniy ma'noda, saylovga ta'sir o'tkazmoqchi bo'lgan chet ellik aktyorlar tomonidan ma'lumot berilgandan ko'ra. Bundan tashqari, Trumpning kampaniyasi 2016 yilda chet el yordamini qabul qildi, chunki maxsus maslahatchi Robert S tomonidan olib borilgan tergov. Myuller III aniqlandi. "^[104]

The Trump minorasi uchrashuvi ixtiyoriy yordam taklifini o'z ichiga olgan ("saylov kampaniyasi"^[457]) Rossiya hukumatidan Trump kampaniyasiga va taklif har qanday tarzda qabul qilinishi noqonuniy edi. Uchrashuvdan oldin Trump kampaniyasi yordam taklifining manbai va maqsadini bilgan, taklifni hali ham mamnuniyat bilan kutib olgan, uni bir yil davomida muvaffaqiyatli yashirgan va uchrashuv nihoyat fosh bo'lganida, Trump bu haqda aldamchi press-reliz chiqargan.

Aksincha, Stilning ishi qonuniy, e'lon qilingan, saylovoldi xarajatlari edi^[457] va Klinton kampaniyasiga Rossiya hukumati tomonidan ixtiyoriy ravishda yordam taklifini o'z ichiga olmaydi. FEC qonunchiligi, chet elliklar tomonidan amalga oshirilgan bo'lsa ham, bunday e'lon qilingan tashviqot xarajatlariga yo'l qo'yadi.^[457]

Bump buni tushuntiradi:

Prezident Tramp, avvalgi uchrashuv zararsiz bo'lganligi va haqiqiy buzg'unchilik - haqiqiy kelishuv - Klintonning saylovoldi kampaniyasi va Stil bilan suhbatlashayotgan ruslar o'rtasida bo'lganini ta'kidlab, ikkalasini qasddan va muntazam ravishda to'qnashtirib yubordi. Trump noto'g'ri. Klintonning saylovoldi kampaniyasi Stilni ishga jalb qilish bilan bog'liq har qanday noqonuniy xatti-harakatlar uchun aybdor va Trump Towerdagi uchrashuv atrofida qonun buzilgan deb o'ylash uchun asosli va Tramp jamoasi a'zolari qonuniy oqibatlarga olib kelishi mumkin deb o'ylash uchun hech qanday sabab yo'q.^[457]

Stiven L. Xoll, Markaziy razvedka boshqarmasi (Rossiya) operatsiyalarining sobiq rahbari, Stilning uslublarini kichik Donald Tramp bilan taqqosladi, u 2016 yil iyun oyida Trump minorasida bo'lib o'tgan uchrashuvda rossiyalik advokatdan ma'lumot so'ragan: "Farq: Stil Rossiyaga qarshi ma'lumot olish uchun Rossiyaga qarshi josuslik qildi. ozod qilishni istamayman; Don Jr ruslar berishni istagan ma'lumotni olish uchun mtg oldi. "^[458]

Jeyn Mayer o'sha uchrashuvga ishora qildi va Rossiyaning Trampni qo'llab-quvvatlashga bo'lgan urinishlariga bo'lgan munosabatdagi farqni taqqosladi: Kichik Trampga Klintonga "ifloslik" "Rossiyaning bir qismi va uning hukumati janob Trampni qo'llab-quvvatlashi" sifatida taklif qilinganida FBI, Stil "Rossiyaning Trampga yordam berishini bilganida, Trampning o'g'li javobni qabul qilib, qo'llab-quvvatlashni qabul qildi:" Agar u siz aytayotgan bo'lsa, men uni yaxshi ko'raman ..."^[21]

Meros

Glenn Simpson bu hujjat rejalashtirilgan yangilanishni to'xtatgan deb hisoblaydi Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari va Rossiya o'rtasidagi munosabatlar bu "Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari manfaatlariga mos kelmadi"; u Rossiya aralashuvi bo'yicha mavjud FBI tergovini qo'llab-quvvatlaganligi; va bu Rossiya hukumati va Trampning saylovoldi kampaniyasi o'rtasidagi yashirin munosabatlarni tushunishni yanada kuchaytirdi.^[160]

Jeyn Mayer bu hujjat "prezidentlik kampaniyasidan kelib chiqadigan eng munozarali muxolifat tadqiqotlari" deb hisoblaydi,^[4] va Julian Borger uni "zamonaviy siyosiy tarixdagi eng portlovchi hujjatlardan biri" deb ta'riflagan ..."^[5]

Shuningdek qarang

• AQShdagi so'nggi saylovlarda Rossiya faoliyati va niyatlarini baholash - ODNIning Rossiyaning 2016 yildagi AQSh saylovlariga aralashuvi darajasi va asoslarini baholagan hisobot.
• Rossiya tomonidan kiberjangi - Rossiya tomonidan ko'plab xalqlarga qarshi qo'llaniladigan har xil kiberjangi.
• Chet ellik saylov aralashuvi - xorijiy hukumatlarning saylovga aralashuvi
• Donald Tramp tashqi siyosati (2015–16)
• Rossiya-AQSh munosabatlari - Rossiya va Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari o'rtasidagi diplomatik munosabatlar
• Amerikani buzish uchun fitna
• AQShdagi rus josusligi
• Rossiyaning 2016 yilgi Amerika Qo'shma Shtatlari saylovlariga aralashuvi xronologiyasi - Tramp inauguratsiyasiga qadar Rossiyaning AQSh-2016 saylovlariga aralashuvi bilan bog'liq yirik voqealar
• Tramp: Kreml nomzodi?

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