Trump may be borrowing Nixon’s ‘back channel’ strategy in his contacts with Russia Back channels are not espionage, lol. Perhaps if the CIA and FBI were better at their jobs...
Asking Russians to setup secret communications surely is, this was not just a diplomatic backchannel. And let's not forget that Kushner lied on his clearance forms and a lot of Trump people are in legal trouble already for their BS.
Can a man be convicted if the only evidence against him is Reuters. You say Reuters like it means something. I worked at a newspaper. They get a report but by the time they edit it all up it says what they want it to say, but it originally came from AP and to be fair was pretty balanced back then. So now Reuters report only means someone is giving an opinion based on something that appeared in Reuters. Need more info to waste anymore time.
So you do not understand the difference between REPORTING EVIDENCE and EVIDENCE itself. Playing dumb is not a long term strategy, this whole thing is getting worse so better try some new talking points, watch Fox for the propaganda.
I'm amazed people are worried about backchannels. I've noticed an article on Breitbart discussing Obama's backchannel to Iran during his 2008 presidential campaign. Some of you should take some time and read up on the history of backchannels. But let's pull up a recent development that most likely troubles the intel community: McMaster left out of Bibi-Trump meeting The White House National Security advisor General H.R. McMaster did not participate in the Trump-Netanyahu meeting on Monday, Kafe Knesset has learned. McMaster had a long, three-hour meeting with Minister of Defense Avigdor Liberman on Monday evening, but according to multiple Israeli sources, he did not participate in the leaders’ summit that took place beforehand at the Jerusalem King David hotel. The President and the PM met on Monday evening, and started their encounter in a one-on-one meeting. Two Israeli officials said that later on the forum was expanded by several advisors, to a Plus-3 forum. The President was then joined by Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman. The Israeli team was augmented with Ambassador Ron Dermer, Special Envoy Isaac Molcho and foreign policy advisor Jonathan Schachter. According to an Israeli official who was present at the venue, at some point, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was invited to join the expanded meeting. However, McMaster sat outside the King David room during the course of the entire meeting. Two sources in the PM’s office said that Israel did not determine who would sit in from the US side. And it is worth pointing out that McMaster’s counterpart in Netanyahu’s office also did not participate in the meeting. However, the Israeli National Security Advisor seat is currently filled by a temporary appointment, Eitan Ben-David, and as such, is not considered as substantial an advisor as McMaster. Two former US administration officials told Kafe Knesset that McMaster’s absence from the meeting is “highly unusual. For the President to prioritize his son-in-law and his lawyer over the National Security Advisor for these kind of strategic discussions is unconventional, to say the least.” In the week ahead of the Israel visit, some of McMaster’s statements raised some eyebrows in Jerusalem. First, he announced that the President intends to use the meeting to express “his desire for dignity and self-determination for the Palestinians,” which, by the way did not end up happening. Then, during a press briefing, he twice refused to say whether the Western Wall is part of Israel, dodging questions on the topic with the answer: “That is a policy decision.” At the same time, a NY Times report last week claimed that President Trump “has complained that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and has referred to him as “a pain.” A spokesman for the NSC declined to comment about McMaster’s absence from the meeting. ------------- ---------- Kushner is starting to play the part of Kissinger and his lack of affiliation with the intel community is probably what troubles them.