Trump campaign’s Russia contacts a ‘grave’ threat – report

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>The interactions between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russian intelligence services posed a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;grave” counter-intelligence threat&comma; a US Senate panel has concluded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The panel detailed how associates of the Republican candidate had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report&comma; the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation&comma; describes how Russia launched an aggressive&comma; wide-ranging effort to interfere in the election on Donald Trump’s behalf&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It says Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid&comma; particularly by maximising the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails that were hacked by Russian military intelligence officers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report from the Republican-led panel lays out significant contacts between Trump associates and Russians&comma; describing for instance a close professional relationship between Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik&comma; whom the committee describes without equivocation as a Russian intelligence officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report notes how Mr Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with Mr Kilimnik and says there is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;some evidence” that Mr Kilimnik may have been connected to the Kremlin’s operation to hack and leak Democratic emails&comma; though it does not describe that evidence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>The most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>In addition&comma; the report says that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;two pieces of information” raise the possibility of Mr Manafort’s potential connection to those operations&comma; but what follows next in the document is blacked out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both men were charged in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation&comma; but neither was accused of any tie to the hacking&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A Manafort lawyer&comma; Kevin Downing&comma; said on Tuesday that there is information that was sealed at the request of Mr Mueller’s team &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;that completely refutes whatever the intelligence committee is trying to surmise”&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It just looks like complete conjecture&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Senate panel described its report&comma; totalling more than 1&comma;300 pages&comma; as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The bipartisan investigation lasted almost three-and-a-half years&comma; much longer than the other probes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The report purposely does not come to a final conclusion&comma; as the other reports did&comma; about whether there is enough evidence that Trump’s campaign co-ordinated or colluded with Russia to sway the election to him and away from Democrat Hillary Clinton&comma; leaving its findings open to partisan interpretation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A group of Republicans on the panel submitted &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;additional views” to the report&comma; saying that it should state more explicitly that Trump’s campaign did not co-ordinate with Russia&period; But Democrats on the panel submitted their own views&comma; arguing that the report clearly shows such co-operation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Mueller concluded in a report issued last year that Russia interfered in the election through hacking and a covert social media campaign&comma; 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