In the Judiciary Committee releases, no smoking gun for Robert Mueller

There is no smoking gun for special counsel Robert Mueller in the Senate Judiciary Committee records released on Wednesday. Those records relate to the now-famous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between senior Trump campaign officials and a Russian-intelligence linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

Veselnitskaya attended that meeting as a senior cutout or intermediary for the Russian intelligence services (the Russians love to use cutouts), offering compromising material on Hillary Clinton that she failed to deliver, to the irritation of Trump’s aides. Veselnitskaya’s attendance was arranged by a U.S.-U.K. citizen, Rob Goldstone at the behest of Aras Agalarov, a close friend of and intermediary for Vladimir Putin.