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Ryderbike I scanned this report in the past. It does not detail or provide conclusive evidence of collusion. In fact in does the opposite of that. It reconfirms the same finding as the Mueller Report.
The Analysis of the report by The Hill which is still very left leaning to say the least. I know they hated to write the following:The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday released its long-awaited final report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, marking the end to a sprawling investigation that began in January 2017.
The committee’s main findings run parallel to the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which found overwhelming evidence of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the election through disinformation and cyber campaigns but found a lack of sufficient evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Kremlin to impact the outcome of the 2016 election.https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512493-read-final-senate-intelligence-committee-report-on-russian-election/
This is included in the report also.
ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF SENATORS RISCH, RUBIO, BLUNT,
COTTON, CORNYN, AND SASSE
(U) Volume 5 of the report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference is
the last body of work relating to the Committee's investigation into Russian meddling in the
2016 U.S. presidential election. This final volume brings an end to more than three years of
investigative work. Bipartisan professional staff reviewed more than one million documents and
interviewed more than 200 witnesses to produce over 1,000 pages of analysis.
Volume 5
exhaustively reviews the counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities to the 2016 election, but
never explicitly states the critical fact: the Committee found no evidence that then-candidate
Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government in its efforts to meddle
in the election.(U) The Trump campaign publicly and repeatedly promoted a policy of improving
relations with Moscow which, in some ways, was a view not much different than the effort by
the Obama administration to "reset" relations between the two countries. Such a policy does not
itself constitute collusion or a counterintelligence threat. V
olume 5 includes sections that
address foreign policy actions taken by the Trump transition team in line with this policy, not
because the Committee found any evidence that these foreign policy actions were the result of
collaboration with the Russian Government, but to show that after an exhaustive investigation
allegations of cooperation can be put to rest. Decisions taken were the result of a foreign policy
viewpoint, not illicit Russian influence. We feel Volume 5 should have explicitly stated this. Manafort never confessed to conclusion. What he was talking about was already widely know. In fact, it is already covered in the Senate Report you reference. Not to forget the data is passed on was already in the Public Domain. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/manafort-no-smoking-gun-collusion/
The Manafort Revelation Is Not a Smoking Gun
Proponents of the Trump-Russia collusion theory wildly overstate their case, again.
Kilimnik insists that he has “no relation to the Russian or any other intelligence service.” According to a lengthy profile in The Atlantic, “insinuations” that Kilimnik has worked for Russian intelligence during his years in Ukraine “were never backed by more than a smattering of circumstantial evidence.” All of this has been lost on US media outlets, who routinely portray Kilimnik as a “Russian operative” or an “alleged Russian spy.”
That same creative license that makes Kilimnik part of the Russian-intelligence apparatus is now being applied to the claim that Manafort shared polling data with Kilimnik. The New York Times initially reported that Manafort instructed Kilimnik in the spring of 2016 to forward the polling data to Oleg Deripaska, a Russian tycoon to whom Manafort owed a reported $20 million. The Times also reported that “[m]ost of the data was public,” but that didn’t stop pundits from letting their imaginations run wild.
The fervent speculation suffered a setback when it was revealed that the polling data was not intended to be passed to Deripaska or any other wealthy Russian. The New York Times corrected its story to inform us that Manafort actually wanted the polling data sent to two Ukrainian tycoons, Serhiy Lyovochkin and Rinat Akhmetov. That correction came long after viral tweets and articles from liberal outlets amplified the Times’ initial false claim about Deripaska. Most egregiously, New York magazine’s Chait doubled down on the initial error by incorrectly claiming that the Times was now reporting that Manafort’s intended recipient was “different Russian oligarchs.” For his part, Akhmetov says he “never requested nor received any polling data or any other information about the 2016 US elections” from Manafort or Kilimnik.
US News & World Report, again not exactly a Right Wing propaganda organ. Not like CCN, MSNBC, and remaining 90% of the MSM are for the Left.
Mueller report: Findings confirm Donald Trump never colluded with Russia, obstructed justiceAs far as collusion and subsequent allegations of obstruction by Donald Trump, there never was more to this would-be scandal than political innuendo.
President Donald Trump and his campaign did not conspire with Russia in Moscow's efforts to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, according to a Justice Department account of special prosecutor Robert Mueller's report.
Mueller left unresolved the question of whether Trump obstructed justice before and during the nearly two-year inquiry, noting that "while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." But Attorney General William Barr, in delivering to Congress a four-page summation of Mueller's report, said that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had themselves determined there was insufficient evidence to charge the president with obstruction of justice.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2019-03-24/mueller-finds-no-evidence-trump-team-colluded-with-russia
