![]() This index, full of middlemen, billionaires, “useful idiots,” and spies, is meant to be a reference tool to fall back on as we all try to make sense of the report. From Ukrainian oligarchs and botched business deals in Moscow to potential obstruction of justice and sketchy contacts with foreign agents, the story is full of both paperback-thriller allegations and convoluted, boring details that may add up to nothing.īecause of the winding timeline and Russian-novel’s worth of characters, we’ve fallen back on a tested form - the word jumble of an encyclopedia - to help make sense of the scale of the investigation. Since the Justice Department gave the former FBI head and his team the jurisdiction to look into “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation,” the scope of the inquiry is absolutely massive. After almost two years of waiting and prognosticating, the Office of the Special Counsel’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election has been made public - with redactions, of course. Stein has steadfastly said that she, unlike Flynn, received no fee or travel expenses for her participation in the RT program.Photo-Illustration: Konstantin Sergeyev/Intelligencer Photos: Getty Images Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, was the only American besides Flynn at the head table. Willy Wimmer, is a former member of the German Bundestag who is often critical of U.S. The Russian president declined the opportunity, according to Stein. Stein, in explaining why she traveled to Moscow, said she had hoped to speak with Putin about Russian policy in Syria, climate change and other issues. She and Flynn, who pleaded guilty recently to charges of lying to the FBI, were the only two Americans at the head table. Most famously, Stein helped celebrate RT's 10th anniversary in Moscow in December 2010, participating in a foreign policy seminar and dining with Putin and former Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn. He says that the Russians used their "troll army" and computer-generated bots to place pro-Stein ads on Facebook and tweets on Twitter. Watts also notes that it wasn't just Russia's overt propaganda organs that supported Stein. Stein made numerous appearances on RT and Sputnik during both the 20 campaigns, when she participated in an RT-sponsored third party candidates' presidential debate.Ī search of RT and Sputnik archives shows more than 100 stories, both on-air and online, friendly to Stein and the Green Party. democratic procedures and undercutting U.S. messaging likely aimed at undermining viewers' trust in U.S. election is the "latest facet of its broader and longer-standing anti-U.S. elections from January 2017, RT's criticism of the U.S. Specifically, according to the Intelligence Community's report on Russian interference in U.S. intelligence community called the two outlets part of "Russia's state-run propaganda machine." Jill Stein, center, appears at an RT event with host Oksana Boiko and German politician Willy Wimmer in Moscow in 2015. ![]() intelligence as a big part of the Russian effort to influence the American presidential election. Stein does seem to have played a role in denying the presidency to the Kremlin's least favorite candidate, Hillary Clinton.ĭuring the 2016 campaign, Stein was a favorite of RT and Sputnik, the two government-owned English-language news outlets that have been identified by U.S. ![]() Mikhail Klimentyev / Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP fileĪdded Watts, "On the left politically, they sought to dissuade Bernie Sanders voters from turning out to the polls and increase turnout for Stein." political establishment, and they seemed to work hand in glove."Ĭlint Watts, an NBC News analyst who has been tracking Russian election interference at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, said that Russia's intelligence agencies "sought to play both sides of the political spectrum to elevate Trump and turn down turnout for Clinton." The head table of a gala celebrating the tenth anniversary of Russia Today in December of 2015 included Russian President Vladimir Putin, retired Lt. " Russian state propaganda outlets like RT had a field day with her strident attacks on the U.S. "The Russian embrace of Jill Stein was anything but subtle," said Andrew Weiss, a Russia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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