Hold on! Butina met with Obama admin Fed and Treasury officials.

[underpants]

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

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 travelled 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 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.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-russia-butina-exclusive/exclusive-accused-russian-agent-butina-met-with-u-s-treasury-fed-officials-idUKKBN1KC0DE

[MFM008]

1. Why?

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[Freethinker65]

2. Yep. She is not new, and travelled with Torshin. I wonder how long she had been under surveillance?

And the Russian Central Bank deputy governor (Torshin) having a meeting/discussions with the Fed and Treasury seems not out of the ordinary.

Why the same had meetings with other groups like the NRA is far more interesting.

[Roland99]

3. Fischer is deep state. Long history with Bank of Israel under Netanyahu and Sharon

Also from the World Bank

A poor choice by obama but one accepted by Twitler

[hedda_foil]

6. Bad choice by Obama maybe but very bad choice of wording.

Deep state is a Trumpian term that we should all avoid using at any time for any reason. If we use their propagandist terms, we risk a high level of syntactical confusion while giving credence to their conspiracy theories. Bad Idea.

[Roland99]

7. Meant it as if there IS a deep state, it's in Twitler's favor

[triron]

4. So?

This seems consistent with her being a Russian agent trying to influence policy.

[Progressive dog]

5. Butina was Torshin's interpreter

according to the article.