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re: Russian ambassador told Moscow that Kushner wanted secret channel with Kremlin
Posted on 5/26/17 at 8:26 pm to a want
Posted on 5/26/17 at 8:26 pm to a want
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Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.
This story makes so much more sense now:
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The Trump administration is exploring whether it can use an obscure ethics rule to undermine the special counsel investigation into ties between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia, two people familiar with White House thinking said on Friday.
Trump has said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's hiring of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to lead the investigation "hurts our country terribly."
Within hours of Mueller's appointment on Wednesday, the White House began reviewing the Code of Federal Regulations, which restricts newly hired government lawyers from investigating their prior law firm’s clients for one year after their hiring, the sources said.
An executive order signed by Trump in January extended that period to two years.
Mueller's former law firm, WilmerHale, represents Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who met with a Russian bank executive in December, and the president's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who is a subject of a federal investigation.
Legal experts said the ethics rule can be waived by the Justice Department, which appointed Mueller. He did not represent Kushner or Manafort directly at his former law firm.
If the department did not grant a waiver, Mueller would be barred from investigating Kushner or Manafort, and this could greatly diminish the scope of the probe, experts said.
Reuters
Specifically, why the administration would be trying to use a rule that was originally implemented to prevent a special counsel from engaging in nepotism or cronyism. Showing leniency or favoritism toward someone their prior law firm may have had as a client.
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 5/26/17 at 8:28 pm to bonhoeffer45
Wild speculation at best! The dems have lost their damn minds. Any actual evidence?
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