In another eyebrow-raising and embarrassing development in theĀ findings of the Mueller report, the special counsel reportedly omitted an important detail about a key figure linked to Russia.
As Mueller’s conclusions on the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election increasingly come under the microscope, questions continue to be raised about the accuracy of the report in light of the latest bombshell.
While Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik was portrayed by Mueller as someone tied to Russian intelligence, the special counsel apparently left out key information that revealed he was a State Department informant, according to John Solomon in a piece published by The Hill.
Kilimnik,Ā who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, was described asĀ a āsensitiveā intelligence source for the U.S. State Department in government documents which were in Mueller’s possession since last year.
According to Solomon:
The incomplete portrayal of Kilimnik is so important to Muellerās overall narrative that it is raised in the opening of his report. āThe FBI assessesā Kilimnik āto have ties to Russian intelligence,ā Muellerās team wrote on Page 6, putting a sinister light on every contact Kilimnik had with Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman.
What it doesnāt state is that Kilimnik was a āsensitiveā intelligence source for State going back to at least 2013 while he was still working for Manafort, according to FBI and State Department memos I reviewed.
And Kilimnik was “not just any run-of-the-mill source,” Solomon contended.
Long before Mueller concluded his investigation, the FBI was already aware thatĀ Kilimnik “interacted with the chief political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev,” providing information on the Ukraine government sometimes multiple times a week. Documents also revealed that he “relayed messages back to Ukraineās leaders and delivered written reports to U.S. officials via emails that stretched on for thousands of words,” according to Solomon.
The revelation that Kilimnik was a valued State Dept informant, & that Mueller excluded that from his report, is one of the most embarrassing episodes yet for the Russiagate conspiracy theory narrative (and thatās saying a lot). https://t.co/hrSpq6Ry4l
ā Aaron MatĆ© (@aaronjmate) June 7, 2019
In fact,Ā Kilimnik was such a valuable source that there were fears about him being compromised in leaks, asĀ Alan Purcell, the chief political officer at the Kiev embassy from 2014 to 2017, explained to FBI agents.
āPurcell described what he considered an unusual level of discretion that was taken with handling Kilimnik,ā one FBI interview report stated, according to Solomon.
āNormally the head of the political section would not handle sources, but Kasanof informed Purcell that KILIMNIK was a sensitive source,” the report continued, referring toĀ senior embassy official Alexander Kasanof.
Solomon noted:
Three sources with direct knowledge of the inner workings of Muellerās office confirmed to me that the special prosecutorās team had all of the FBI interviews with State officials, as well as Kilimnikās intelligence reports to the U.S. Embassy, well before they portrayed him as a Russian sympathizer tied to Moscow intelligence or charged Kilimnik with participating with Manafort in a scheme to obstruct the Russia investigation.
Solomon added that he reviewed “scores” ofĀ State Department emails which “raise further doubt about the Mueller reportās portrayal of Kilimnik as a Russian agent,” as he “wasnāt flagged in visa databases as a foreign intelligence threat” when he traveled to the U.S. and met with State officials.
#Mueller lied about the role of the only person they ever suggested was a Russian spy: “hundreds of pages of government documents which special counsel Robert Mueller possessed since 2018 describe Kilimnik as a āsensitiveā intelligence source for the U.S.” https://t.co/r6ag3luOuF
ā Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) June 7, 2019
Many other key details make the omission of information by Mueller more glaring, as Solomon pointed out, includingĀ Mueller’s allegation thatĀ Kilimnik and Manafort conspired in a “backdoor” deal with Russia. But Mueller’s report left out the detail thatĀ Kilimnik presented the plan to the Obama administration as well.
‘So Kilimnik’s delivery of the peace plan to the Trump campaign in August 2016 was flagged by Mueller as potentially nefarious, but its earlier delivery to the Obama administration wasn’t mentioned. That’s what many in the intelligence world might call “deception by omission.”‘
ā (((Richard Drake))) (@rdrake98) June 7, 2019
Kilimnik blasted Mueller and his “made-up narrative” in an email toĀ The Washington Post in April.
āI have no ties to Russian or, for that matter, any intelligence operation,ā he wrote. āThis is one of the biggest mistakes in the public perception and in the report. It is simply not based on any facts and is a made-up narrative.ā
“Yet, omitting his extensive, trusted assistance to the State Department seems inexplicable,” Solomon wrote. “If Muellerās team can cast such a misleading portrayal of Kilimnik, however, it begs the question of what else might be incorrect or omitted in the report.”
House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows slammed theĀ “multiple omissions, multiple misrepresentations” in the special counsel’s report in an appearance on Fox Newsā āHannityā Thursday.
āDeeper we dive the more problems we findā: Meadows rips Mueller reportās āmultiple omissions,ā inaccuracies https://t.co/ky0gFJdasm
ā Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 7, 2019
Citing Solomon’s reporting, Meadows noted that “the deeper we dive the more problems we find” with Mueller’s final report.
“A few more such errors and omissions, and Americans may begin to wonder if the Mueller report is worth the paper on which it was printed,” Solomon concluded.
The Mueller Report was one big fat stinking pile of Lies by Omission
ā Whotnaught (@whotnaught) June 7, 2019
Does it surprise us that the entire thing was just a sham?
ā Kim Ashley (@texaskat2003) June 7, 2019
Deception by omission. On multiple fronts.
Itās becoming clear that he must be placed under oath and made to testify.ā ?? Thinkologistāļøāļøāļø on Parler (@ChelEarle) June 7, 2019
I wonder if we’ll see an in depth analysis of this on @MaddowBlog
Seems like something @maddow would be interested in.
Oh, wait…. no. It would hurt her 2 year narrative, so we’ll hear nothing about it.https://t.co/ifVZyNDCKr
ā BonkPolitics (@BonkPolitics) June 7, 2019
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