Russiagate, Palazzo Chigi publishes the text of the interview with the US minister William Barr: "He never mentioned Italy"

The American justice minister has never cited Italy as a country with useful information for the counter-investigation into Russiagate. It does know Palazzo Chigi and it is an important denial: if the American minister has not defined Italy in that way, the premier Giuseppe Conte he could not have ordered our 007s to share relevant information with him, as he argued before the Copasir. The presidency of the council disseminates the shorthand text of the interview, in English and in its Italian translation, which the US minister William Barr has granted to Fox TV. "Some of the countries that John Durham he thought they could have some useful information for the investigation (on Russiagate, ed) they wanted to talk to me first about the scope of the investigation, the nature of the investigation and how I intended to handle confidential information, and so on. So I initially discussed these issues with those countries and introduced them to John Durham, and I created a channel through which Mr. Durham can get assistance from those countries. " Durham is the prosecutor who is conducting a counter-investigation into Russiagate. "I initially discussed these issues with those countries and introduced them to John Durham, and I created a channel through which Mr. Durham can get assistance from those countries," explained Barr, not specifically mentioning Italy. The first reference to our country had appeared in a launch of the Adnkronos agency at 2.25pm ​​on 28 October and then in other launches.

There has been no controversy over the Russiagate for weeks. The incident forced the President of the Council to report to the Copasir on what was reported in the newspapers in recent weeks on the Italian trend of one of the two counter-investigations wanted by Donald Trump on the alleged origins of the Russiagate. The premier said he had never spoken to Barr and that "our intelligence services are foreign to the affair". On behalf of the president of the United States, the attorney general of the US administration had asked for information on Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who went to Link Campus University in Rome, which in 2016 would have passed on to George Papadopoulos, a consultant to the then candidate Trump, the "poisoned meatball" of the emails of Hillary Clinton in the hands of the Russians. A story on which the US administration wants to see clearly.

"Someone has linked Trump's tweet containing appreciation to me to this investigation – Conte had begun at the press conference following the hearing – Trump never told me about this investigation. The request from the United States dates back to June and is prevented by Barr, "the head of the government had explained. "Barr asked to verify the work of the American agents and the request was made on the assumption of not wanting to question the actions of the Italian authorities," continued Conte, who had stressed: "I have never spoken to Barr either by telephone ", but" I agreed to this interlocution to clarify that our intelligence was foreign to this affair ".

Barr's visits on behalf of Donald Trump – under impeachment with the accusation of having abused his office to gain electoral advantages – did not however only concern Italy. This summer, Barr also visited Great Britain is Australia. The three cases have a fundamental difference between them: while in Italy there was a great media hype, in Great Britain and Australia the controversy died out immediately. Yet, remembers Senate Intelligence Commission Vice President Mark Warner to Reuters, the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, form the Five Eyes Alliance, an intelligence information exchange structure between the five allies born after the Second War world. There were two occasions in which the 007 Italians met those of the United States in technical meetings that the prime minister did not have the obligation to communicate to anyone.

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