Eli Lake, Columnist

The Senate’s Russia Report Implicates More Than Trump’s Campaign

One question: Why did the FBI wait until 2016 to take strong action?

August 18, 2020 at 10:45 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

Paul Manafort in 2016.
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“This is what collusion looks like.”

That is how five Democratic senators, including vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris, view the fifth and final volume of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.