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The Lawfare Podcast

The Senate Intelligence Committee, the 2016 Campaign and the Counterintelligence Threat

The Lawfare Podcast

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🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released the final counterintelligence volume of its extensive report related to many aspects of the Russian information warfare and influence campaign surrounding the 2016 election. To dissect it, David Priess sat down with Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic and Margaret Taylor. They discussed what's in this report, how it relates to the Mueller report and what actions, if any, it will spur from its hard-hitting findings.

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0:25.6

no bull and the aftermath.

0:33.9

So what the SSCI report says, although it doesn't use this word, is that Donald Trump

0:38.1

blood, right?

0:39.1

So it sets out a group of evidence that Donald Trump did in fact have a series of communications

0:45.5

with Roger Stone about WikiLeaks and any reasonable person using common sense of logic would

0:52.7

understand that that volume of communication about that sensitive of a topic is not something

0:58.3

that any sentient human being would forget.

1:01.1

And so really what this report is is overwhelmingly strong evidence that the president of the

1:06.0

United States lied under oath and lied in sworn statements to Robert Mueller.

1:11.3

And that raises a lot of questions about why Robert Mueller didn't push that issue.

1:15.8

And the reason why I think that's especially significant is because of course it goes

1:19.8

directly to Donald Trump's motivation and why he might have decided to commute Roger

1:24.9

Stone sentence.

1:27.4

I'm David Priest and this is the LawFair podcast August 21st, 2020.

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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has released the final counterintelligence volume

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of its extensive report related to many aspects of the Russian Information Warfare and Influence

1:47.7

campaign surrounding the 2016 election.

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So we brought together most of the LawFair Corps to dissect it, editor-in-chief Benjamin

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