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*'''31 March.''' Mark Warner and Adam Waldman exchange tects: {{quotebox|Mark Warner - Keep me informed also any news from ur other guy [Deripaska] on manafort<br>Adam Waldman - My other guy [Deripaska], like Steele, very mistrustful of USG [United States Government]. He’s been essentially shut out of the country and dragged through the mud. I explored this question w him last night in person.<br>Adam Waldman - Update re the other guy [Deripaska], my contact at DOJ has gone silent for 72 hrs. I gave him what he asked for and now don’t hear from him. Please let me know if you hear anything.}}

*'''31 March.''' Mark Warner and Adam Waldman exchange tects: {{quotebox|Mark Warner - Keep me informed also any news from ur other guy [Deripaska] on manafort<br>Adam Waldman - My other guy [Deripaska], like Steele, very mistrustful of USG [United States Government]. He’s been essentially shut out of the country and dragged through the mud. I explored this question w him last night in person.<br>Adam Waldman - Update re the other guy [Deripaska], my contact at DOJ has gone silent for 72 hrs. I gave him what he asked for and now don’t hear from him. Please let me know if you hear anything.}}

*WikiLeaks’ latest release of CIA cyber-tools could blow the cover on agency hacking operations.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/wikileaks-latest-release-of-cia-cyber-tools-could-blow-the-cover-on-agency-hacking-operations/2017/03/31/63fc3616-1636-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1679a1da9b4c</ref> A tool called “Marble Framework” enables the CIA to hack into computers, disguise who hacked in, and falsely attribute the hack to someone else by leaving so-called tell-tale signs — like [[Cyrillic]], for example. The CIA documents also showed that the “Marble” tool had been employed in 2016.

*'''Wikileaks reveals IC hacking techniques - the ability to fake Russian hacking'''. WikiLeaks’ latest release of CIA cyber-tools could blow the cover on agency hacking operations.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/wikileaks-latest-release-of-cia-cyber-tools-could-blow-the-cover-on-agency-hacking-operations/2017/03/31/63fc3616-1636-11e7-833c-503e1f6394c9_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1679a1da9b4c</ref> A tool called “Marble Framework” enables the CIA to hack into computers, disguise who hacked in, and falsely attribute the hack to someone else by leaving so-called tell-tale signs — like [[Cyrillic]], for example. The CIA documents also showed that the “Marble” tool had been employed in 2016.

*[[Senate Judiciary Committee]] Chairman Grassley inquired of the Justice Dept. about a complaint filed in July 2016 alleging FusionGPS, authors of the ''Steele dossier'', acting as an unregistered agent of Russia in a lobbying campaign to rewrite and overturn the Magnitsky Act, a law named for a whistleblower who was allegedly murdered while in custody in Russia. The law imputed sanctions against certain Russian officials. Grassley wrote that when FusionGPS reportedly was acting as an unregistered agent of Russian interests, it simultaneously was creating the ''Steele dossier'' of unsubstantiated allegations of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians. The Obama Justice Dept. had done nothing since July 2016 to respond to the complaint of FusionGPS' violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).  

*[[Senate Judiciary Committee]] Chairman Grassley inquired of the Justice Dept. about a complaint filed in July 2016 alleging FusionGPS, authors of the ''Steele dossier'', acting as an unregistered agent of Russia in a lobbying campaign to rewrite and overturn the Magnitsky Act, a law named for a whistleblower who was allegedly murdered while in custody in Russia. The law imputed sanctions against certain Russian officials. Grassley wrote that when FusionGPS reportedly was acting as an unregistered agent of Russian interests, it simultaneously was creating the ''Steele dossier'' of unsubstantiated allegations of conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians. The Obama Justice Dept. had done nothing since July 2016 to respond to the complaint of FusionGPS' violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).