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Sounds like more fake news desperation from the scared right and their Dear Leader. Thanks to Rubio and Richard Burr for setting the story straight right away!
What I love about being an independent is that I'm not married to one side. I can point out networks on either side who are being stupid and call them out. This is one of those instances.
It looks like Senator Mark Warner the head democrat of the Senate Intel Committee was trying to make contact with Christoper Steele to talk to him privately. Warner didn't want anyone to know he wanted to have private contact with Steele, and even talked about not wanting a paper trail.
Some of you dems asked why Nunes wasn't sharing his memo with the Senate intel committee? I told you it was because they couldn't be trusted, looks like that was correct.
"We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country," Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017.
Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate Intelligence Committee being in the loop -- at least initially. In one text to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would "rather not have a paper trail" of his messages.
Waldman is best known for signing a $40,000 monthly retainer in 2009 and 2010 to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of controversial Russian billionaire Oleg V. Deripaska. Deripraska had his visa revoked by the State Department in 2006 because of charges, which he has denied, that he has organized crime ties.
All well and good, UNTIL... He says he doesn't want a paper trail of the contact attempt.
Do you really not see how that's problematic?
No, he didn't want a paper trail of a "failed request."
The paper trail itself was to be an official memo/letter from the Intelligence Committee regarding a formal interview. Warner wanted a verbal agreement before having the official memo sent (paper trail).
So let's say that this request was sinister. How so? The fact that the committee was aware that he was making these arrangements (and probably supporting his actions to get the interview) tells us that he was not trying to hide this.
Obviously Rubio and others on the committee who knew about this supported him and this lack of "paper trail" may be standard procedure until they get an agreement.
But please, just run with this. You all really do need another good conspiracy today. We enjoy watching them all shrivel up and die.
So let's say that this request was sinister. How so? The fact that the committee was aware that he was making these arrangements (and probably supporting his actions to get the interview) tells us that he was not trying to hide this.
Actually, he was trying to hide it. He didn't inform the Committee until 6 months after the fact. No reason to hide it for 6 months if it was an attempt at legitimate inquiry.
Just quoting one of the news reports and may have come from Rubio himself.
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