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10. Senate (SSCI) Investigation on Trump Campaign

10.1 General

  • 2/17/2017 – Comey gives a briefing to the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors. Source
  • 2/19/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee sends formal requests to more than a dozen organizations and agencies asking them to preserve all material related to the investigation into Russian interference in 2016 election and related issues. Source
  • 2/22/2017 - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday she wants former national security adviser Michael Flynn to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Source
  • 2/24/2017 – "Top democratic senator on Russia investigation : “This may very well be the most important thing I do in my public life “ Source
  • 2/26/2017 - Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., told Chuck Todd on “Meet The Press” on Sunday that he felt they would be getting “way, way getting ahead of ourselves” to say a special prosecutor was necessary. Source
  • 2/27/2017 – GOP Intel Chair Burr under fire over ties to Trump. Source
  • 3/6/2017 – The Senate Intelligence Committee will gain access this week to the “raw intelligence” relevant to Congress’ probe of Russia’s role in the presidential election, Sen. Chris Coons said Monday. Source
  • 3/6/2017 – Intelligence Committee contacts Carter Page and asks him to preserve all information related to his involvement in Trump campaign and Russia. Source
  • 3/28/2017 - Top Democrat on Senate Intel Committee: Sally Yates ‘is an individual that we’re going to want to talk to’ Source
  • 3/29/2017 - Senate intelligence leaders: 20 people to be questioned, first hearing Thursday. Source
  • 3/29/2017 - Poisoned Russian activist delivers rebuke of Putin regime in Senate testimony. Source
  • 3/29/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee is in talks to interview Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who compiled the dossier that alleges a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Source
  • 3/30/2017 - Senate Intel panel tells WH to send Russia information directly. Source
  • 3/31/2017 - Sen. Angus King said Friday that the Senate intelligence committee investigation has yielded incontrovertible proof that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Source
  • 3/31/2017 - Obama administration officials were so concerned about what would happen to key classified documents related to the Russia probe once President Trump took office that they created a list of document serial numbers to give to senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a former Obama official told NBC News.Source
  • 4/24/2017 - Senate Russia investigation to add 2 more staffers after pace criticized. Source
  • 4/25/2017- The Senate’s main investigation into allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election is equipped with a much smaller staff than previous high-profile intelligence and scandal probes in Congress, which could potentially affect its progress. Source
  • 4/26/2017 - The former head of intelligence law at the National Security Agency (NSA), April Doss, has been hired to work on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation. Source
  • 5/5/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand over emails and other records of dealings with Russians as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the presidential election. Source
  • 5/5/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked a number of high-profile Trump campaign associates to hand over emails and other records of dealings with Russians as part of its investigation. Source
  • 5/6/2017 - Former Trump adviser Carter Page has declined to provide records of his communications with Russians to the Senate intelligence committee, saying that anything of note has already been recorded by former President Barack Obama’s administration. Source
  • 5/10/2017 - Senate Intel Committee Subpoenas Former National Security Advisor Flynn for Documents Regarding Russia Probe. Source
  • 5/12/2017 - A Treasury Department unit, FinCEN, that specializes in combating money-laundering will share financial records with an expanding Senate probe into possible ties between Russia and President Donald Trump and his associates, according to people familiar with the matter. Source
  • 5/12/2017 - Comey declines to testify before Senate Intel in a closed hearing following his firing. Source
  • 5/12/2017 - A source to Comey says he is willing to testify, but only in public. Source
  • 5/17/2017 - SSCI invites Comey to testify in an open hearing. Source
  • 5/19/2017 - Comey agrees to testify in open hearing before Senate Intelligence Committee after Memorial day. Source
  • 5/20/2017 - Former FBI Director James Comey now believes that President Donald Trump was trying to influence his judgment about the Russia probe, a person familiar with his thinking says, but whether that influence amounts to obstruction of justice remains an open question. Source
  • 5/22/2017 - The top two leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are leaving the door open to holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress after President Trump’s former national security adviser said he would invoke his Fifth Amendment rights rather than comply with a subpoena. Source
  • 5/22/2017 - Two former associates of President Trump — Paul Manafort and Roger Stone — have turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee in its Russia investigation. Source
  • 5/23/2017 - The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday they would subpoena two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s businesses after Flynn declined to comply with a subpoena for documents in the panel’s Russia probe. Source
  • 5/26/2017 - Oleg V. Deripaska, a Russian oligarch once close to President Trump’s former campaign manager, has offered to cooperate with congressional committees investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but lawmakers are unwilling to accept his conditions, according to congressional officials. Source
  • 5/26/2017 - The Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race, has asked President Trump’s political organization to gather and produce all Russia-related documents, emails and phone records going back to his campaign’s launch in June 2015. Source
  • 5/30/2017 - Mr. Flynn will start to turn over records demanded by Senate investigators from two companies that he controlled, as well as some personal documents as soon as next week. Those records had been subpoenaed by the Senate. Source
  • 6/1/2017 - Comey to testify before the SSCI on 6/8, He expected to testify that Trump tried to influence him to stop the election into Flynn. Source
  • 6/6/2017 - President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn handed over more than 600 pages of documents to the Senate intelligence committee. Source
  • 6/7/2017 - SSCI releases Comey’s opening statement detailing the memos he had kept on his interactions with Trump the night before his hearing by request of Comey. Source
  • 6/7/2017 - The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told USA TODAY on Tuesday that Russian attacks on election systems were broader and targeted more states than those detailed in an explosive intelligence report leaked to the website The Intercept. Source
  • 6/8/2017 - Senate Intelligence Committee staff investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential collusion with the Trump campaign plan to interview Jared Kushner in late June or early July. Source
  • 6/8/2017 - The top senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee will meet next week Bob Mueller, the special counsel appointed to lead the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the election, and any possible links to President Trump’s campaign. Source

10.2 Open hearing 3/30

  • 3/30/2017 - The first open hearing can be watched here: Source

Key Points of hearing :

  • Russia hired 1,000 people to create anti-Clinton ‘fake news’ in key US states during election.
  • Clint Watts, senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, says President Trump used active Russian measures against his opponents during the 2016 election.
  • Russians took Trump’s side in GOP primary, too.
  • Russian bots still interfering in U.S. politics after election.
  • Russian bots/hackers were often from Eastern EU -

10.3 Second Open Hearing 3/30

  • 3/30/2017 - The 2nd open hearing can be watched here: Source

Key Points of hearing :

  • Russian Hackers Targeted 109 Clinton Staffers in a Single Month.

Open Hearing 5/11

  • 5/11/2017 - McCabe and others testify at open hearing before the Senate Panel. Source
  • 5/11/2017 - A full transcript of the hearing can be read here: Source

Key points of the hearing :

Open Hearing 6/7

  • 6/7/2017 - SSCI holds a hearing on 6/7 with Mccabe, Rogers, Coats and Rosenstein.

You can watch the hearing here or read the transcript [here]

Key points :

Open Hearing 6/8

  • 6/8/2017 - SSCI holds a hearing with Former FBI Director Comey
  • You can watch the hearing here or read the transcript here

Key points:

  • Trump was not a “target” of TrumpRussia investigation but it could “logically” expand to include him.
  • Trump never asked Comey about Russian interference in election after the initial briefing on it from Comey.
  • Trump initiated all calls with Comey
  • Trump did ask for Loyalty
  • Trump told Comey he “hoped” would he stop investigation into Flynn
  • Russia without a doubt were the ones who engaged in election interference.
  • Comey is sure Mueller is investigating Trump obstruction of justice and has handed over his memos.
  • Comey Fully believes Trump fired him to change how the TrumpRussia investigation was being conducted.
  • Comey hopes there are tapes and gives full permission to publish them.
  • Comey believes its possible criminal investigations unrelated to the counter-intel investigation could occur.
  • Comey had a friend publish his memo in the hopes of causing the appointment of a Special Counsel.
  • Comey felt pressured by Trump to drop the Flynn investigation.
  • Comey said it seemed like Trump wanted Quid-pro-quo for keeping him as FBI director.
  • Comey explicitly calls out WH reports about himself and FBI as “lies”
  • Comey believes Pence knew about concerns on Flynn.
  • Comey “doesn’t think he should answer” if he thinks Trump colluded with Russia in an open setting.
  • Comey has reasons for believing Sessions would recuse he couldn’t discuss in open setting.
  • Comey was concerned about Loretta lynch trying to make FBI mirror Clinton Campaign language on emails investigation as well as her meeting with Bill Clinton, enough so that it influenced his actions in order to protect the FBI.
  • Comey emphasizes his trust in Mueller and says he will get to the bottom of this.
  • Flynn may have lied to the FBI

Open Hearing 6/13

  • 6/13/2017 - SSCI holds a hearing with Jeff Sessions.
  • You can watch the hearing Here or read the full transcript Here

Key Points :

  • Sessions denies collusion or any knowledge of it.
  • Sessions denies a third meeting at the Mayflower hotel with Kislyak, though seems to imply he may have forgot
  • Sessions attempts to provide Trump with executive privilege, despite Trump never initiating it, refusing to answer questions on any conversations he may have had with the President.

Open Hearing 6/21

  • 6/21/2017 - SSCI holds a hearing with Samuel Liles acting director of Homeland Security’s cyberintelligence and analysis division, and Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity and Communications for the National Protection and Programs Directorate within DHS Jeanette Manfra
  • You can watch the hearing Here or read the full transcript [Here](

Key Points :

  • The government concluded by late September that 21 states’ election-related systems "were potentially targeted by Russian government cyber actors.

Senate Judiciary Investigation

General

  • 5/16/2017 - Graham invites Comey to testify at open hearing before Senate panel. Source
  • 5/18/2017 - Sen. Lindsey Graham on the Russia probe: “It seems to me now to be considered a criminal investigation” Source

First Open Hearing 5/3

  • 5/3/2017 - Comey and Rogers testify at Senate Judiciary Source

Key points

Second Open Hearing 5/8

  • 5/8/2017 - Yates and Clapper testify at Senate Judiciary : Source

Key Points

  • Yates explicitly warned WH that Flynn was susceptible to Russian blackmail.
  • Clapper confirms (roughly) Guardian story of US being given Intel on Trump associates
  • Clapper had no knowledge of FBI investigation until Comey announced it publicly.

Response

  • 5/11/2017 - “Watch them start to choke like dogs” Trump says while watching the hearing. According to a behind-the-scenes interview with Time. Source