Same think tank that arranged this Treasury & Fed meet w/ Butina & Torshin also hosted the Mayflower

[MelissaB]

The same think tank that arranged this Treasury & Fed meet with Butina & Torshin also hosted the Mayflower hotel event that Sessions & Kislyak attended. This think tank is run by a Russian with ties to Putin

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Exclusive: Accused Russian agent Butina met with U.S. Treasury, Fed officials

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused Russian agent Maria Butina had wider high-level contacts in Washington than previously known, taking part in 2015 meetings between a visiting Russian official and two senior officials at the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department.

The meetings, revealed by several people familiar with the sessions and a report from a Washington think tank that arranged them, involved Stanley Fischer, Fed vice chairman at the time, and Nathan Sheets, then Treasury undersecretary for international affairs.

Butina traveled to the United States in April 2015 with Alexander Torshin, then the Russian Central Bank deputy governor, and they took part in separate meetings with Fischer and Sheets to discuss U.S.-Russian economic relations during Democratic former President Barack Obama’s administration.

The two meetings, which have not been previously reported, reveal a wider circle of high-powered connections that Butina sought to cultivate with American political leaders and special interest groups.


Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-butina-exclusive/exclusive-accused-russian-agent-butina-met-with-u-s-treasury-fed-officials-idUSKBN1KC0DC?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

[Botany]

1. TrUMP: Well, first of all, he (Trump) said there was no collusion whatsoever.*

"The same think tank that arranged this Treasury & Fed meet with Butina & Torshin also hosted the Mayflower hotel event that Sessions & Kislyak attended.This think tank is run by a Russian with ties to Putin."


* http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/insisting-there-was-no-collusion-trump-quotes-putin

[OnDoutside]

2. Trumcast suggested that Flynn gave Bustina up to Mueller, but I would expect US Intel were well

clued into her already.

[RandomAccess]

3. And the NAME of the think tank is -- ????????????

Drives me bananas that there are TWO posts on this that I've run across so far this morning and neither one mentions the name.

This isn't about the posters (necessarily) but how these damn articles are constructed.

Here's the missing detail:

The meetings with Fischer and Sheets were arranged by the Center for the National Interest, a Washington foreign policy think tank that often advocates pro-Russia views.

And I was all the more disgusted when I learned the name BECAUSE we've seen this name a number of times in the past several weeks.