So Mike Flynn, Jared Kushner, and Steve Bannon among others may have committed espionage, but some new Susan Rice revelations are more interesting in their relation to a variety of other actions done during the election transition.
No one has ever been convicted under the law in the 218 years that the Logan Act has been on the books, but now we’re in uncharted territory with the number of potential violations.
We might be in for some unprecedented/unpresidented(sic) actions. And it did explain the somewhat anomalous GOP attack on Susan Rice.
And more interesting is Devin Nunes’s fail in trying to stop the “unmasking” and the GOP committee members trying to sell that meme.
This may have an compelling relationship to the subsequent Saudi, UAE, and anti-Qatar actions after the inaugural as well.
The NY meeting w UAE was not about Russia, we are told, but it preceded a UAE effort to set up Russian backchannel.
(CNN)
Former national security adviser Susan Rice privately told House investigators that she unmasked the identities of senior Trump officials to understand why the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates was in New York late last year, multiple sources told CNN.
The New York meeting preceded a separate effort by the UAE to facilitate a back-channel communication between Russia and the incoming Trump White House.
The crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, arrived in New York last December in the transition period before Trump was sworn into office for a meeting with several top Trump officials, including Michael Flynn, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his top strategist Steve Bannon, sources said.
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Rice's previously undisclosed revelation in a classified setting shines new light on a practice that had come under sharp criticism from the committee chairman, California Rep. Devin Nunes, and President Donald Trump, who previously accused Rice of committing a crime.
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The Seychelles meeting -- and the circumstances around it -- has been a subject of interest to Hill investigators looking at any potential link between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The Washington Post initially reported in April that the UAE brokered a pre-inauguration meeting between the founder of the security firm Blackwater, Erik Prince, who is a close Trump ally, and an associate of Vladimir Putin's in the Seychelles Islands. The purpose of the meeting was part of an effort by the UAE to persuade Russia to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, according to the Post.
and then there’s more emoluments elsewhere for the Trump WH.