guardian claiming manafort met secretly with assange shortly before the russian email leaks started.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...dorian-embassy
this story feels sketchy honestly; the assertion is that manafort met in private with assange, which basically provides a fairly tangible kill chain from FSB -> assange -> manafort -> trump.
but wikileaks is acting like they deliberately seeded the story so they could discredit it, and the guardian is already starting to revise/soften some of the language they used in the initial article.
so its hard to say where this is going to land.