white house about whether or not pardoning paul manafort would make it look like the president was pardoning the guy who was the link between the trump campaign and russian intelligence during the russian attack on the campaign. i mean, the special counsel s office has said in court filings and there are prosecutors who have said in open court that this guy kilimnik, manafort s right-hand man, right, he is assessed by the fbi to have active links to russian intelligence. this big redactions fight that s been happening over the past week in d.c. is that manafort s defense has been insisting that other stuff about kilimnik needs to be unredacted. it needs to come out from behind those black boxes in order to balance out that assertion from the prosecutors that kilimnik is russian intelligence. specifically what they ve been fighting to unredact in these public facing filings and transcripts are their own assertions from the defense side
and they may specifically be trying to say something to the white house about whether or not pardoning paul manafort would make it look like paul manafort was pardoning the guy to the russian campaign during the russian attack on the campaign. the special counsel s office said in court filings and prosecutors said in open court that this guy kilimnik, manafort s right-hand man, right? he is assessed by the fbi to have active links to russian intelligence. this big redactions fight happening in d.c., manafort s defense is insisting that other stuff about kilimnik needs to be unredacted to balance out that assertion that kilimnik is russian intelligence. specifically what they have been fighting to unredact in the filings and transcripts are their own assertions from the defense side that kilimnik is known to have met with u.s. personnel at the american