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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC just now : There was someone ELSE in the room with the Russian lawyer !!!
HipChick
(25,485 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)denies it to MSNBC.
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,730 posts)undercover agents don't retire, they just go deeper.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)csziggy
(34,139 posts)brush
(53,922 posts)Now we're hearing 6 maybe 7 people?
God, all they do is lie.
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)I believe the IC know exactly how many were there and this will come out, one by one.
blogslut
(38,019 posts)?
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)C'mon happy Friday.
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)The man is denying it but there seems to be verification but MSNBC isn't naming him yet.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)demmiblue
(36,901 posts)blaze
(6,383 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)and adjust his list AGAIN ? Great point.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)300 "corrections" is ok if you're a republican. Unlike ordinary Americans, republicans are special.
Vinca
(50,318 posts)They're calling the person a former spy suspected of still being connected and the lawyer a "facilitator."
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)There need to be some arrests within Trump's inner circle, posthaste. This a clear, present and ongoing danger.
Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)Last update before the break.
I hope they name him soon.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)away, for a while anyway.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)Two people were meeting with Donnie, who was the second ?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9312248
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)Manafort's guy.
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)Kilimnik worked for the U.S.-based International Republican Institute out of Moscow for almost 10 years before he was forced out. He was reportedly forced out of his job because of suspicion about his ties to Russia. He then started working with Manafort.
According to its About Us page on its website, the organization is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is committed to freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based and responsive, assisting citizens to participate in government planning, and working to increase the role of marginalized groups in the political process - including women and youth.
It has a staff of about 400 people and is headquartered out of Washington D.C. Its president is Mark Green, a former Republican congressman and former candidate for governor in Wisconsin.
The IRI is funded by the U.S. government and reported a budget of $78 million in 2008. The chairman of the board is U.S. Senator John McCain and its board boasts such members as Rep. Kay Granger and Sen. Tom Cotton.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Kilimnik worked for the U.S.-based International Republican Institute out of Moscow for almost 10 years before he was forced out. He was reportedly forced out of his job because of suspicion about his ties to Russia. He then started working with Manafort.
According to its About Us page on its website, the organization is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that is committed to freedom and democracy worldwide by helping political parties to become more issue-based and responsive, assisting citizens to participate in government planning, and working to increase the role of marginalized groups in the political process - including women and youth.
It has a staff of about 400 people and is headquartered out of Washington D.C. Its president is Mark Green, a former Republican congressman and former candidate for governor in Wisconsin.
The IRI is funded by the U.S. government and reported a budget of $78 million in 2008. The chairman of the board is U.S. Senator John McCain and its board boasts such members as Rep. Kay Granger and Sen. Tom Cotton.
madaboutharry
(40,231 posts)Willy Geist is saying the suspicion is it is a RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER (SPY)!
I don't see how this can go on.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)But it would be lovely if he was greeted by the FBI on the tarmac.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)is this the bombshell that people were saying was coming last night? at the rate its going putin himself will have been in the meeting by the end of next week.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)A key senator said a former Russian spy is lobbying without registering as a foreign agent
April 05, 2017 08:57 AM EDT
An admitted former Russian spy who now works as a lobbyist in Washington and has been tied to the creators of the unverified Trump dossier may have lobbied against Russian sanctions, according to a letter by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Grassley requested all immigration information available on Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian citizen who became an American citizen in 2009, in a letter written Tuesday. He cited a July 2016 complaint alleging Akhmetshin had not registered as a foreign agent as required by law.
Akhmetshin was described by Radio Free Europe as a "Russian gun-for-hire [lurking] in the shadows of Washington's lobbying world." In one interview, he admitted to having worked as a Soviet counterintelligence officer. In another interview, he denied it. He would have had to mention his intelligence work when applying for U.S. citizenship.
He allegedly worked with Fusion GPS, the company behind the unverified dossier that claimed ties between President Trump and Russia.
OnDoutside
(19,977 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)BOOM!
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)wTF does that mean? Were there more? How about women?
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)babylonsister
(171,102 posts)spilled everything, didn't spill this is telling.
ouija
(398 posts)Why would they need the Russian lawyer if it's was a Manafort guy? Doubt it's him.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Junior thought he could get away with revealing just a semi-spicy tidbit so they could call the matter closed. Well... oops.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Transparently dishonest, that is.
brush
(53,922 posts)Can't he get any dumber, like that's not going to come out?
spanone
(135,898 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)The good news is, Bob Mueller is not counted among the Trump base.
Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)the meeting took place and had met with Manafort earlier.
Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)bigtree
(86,008 posts)...counterintelligence - MSNBC Ken Dillian
Ilsa
(61,700 posts)Russian intelligence.
They will have to reveal this. I don't see how they can avoid it.
Solly Mack
(90,791 posts)Anyone want to bet that's a lie?
wishstar
(5,272 posts)Not just the Russian American with connections to Russian intelligence, but ANOTHER person who they described as friends of Emin Agalarov and the lawyer
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)Wonder if the sound of rattling handcuffs that is helping their collective remembering.
FSogol
(45,549 posts)Gothmog
(145,665 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)VermontKevin
(1,473 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)malaise
(269,212 posts)Alex
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"There were four people in the room."
The son, the son-in-law, the campaign manager.
And the Russian lawyer - who speaks and reads no English.
Even Fox News gave Junior chance after chance to come clean about at least some kind of 'translator'!
But they couldn't even admit to that!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)klook
(12,171 posts)In the microwave, listening and watching.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Spy vs Spy. Donnie and Jared WAY over their heads though. Manafort knows what's going on.
Yavin4
(35,447 posts)klook
(12,171 posts)blondebanshee
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