Senate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA's Russia Trip

[highplainsdem]

Source: Daily Beast

The Senate intelligence committee has asked the National Rifle Association to provide documents on its connections to Russia—including documents related to a 2015 trip some of its top leaders made to Moscow. That’s according to two sources briefed on the committee’s activities.

The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Spokespersons for Sen. Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chair, and Sen. Mark Warner, the panel’s ranking member, declined to comment on the record.

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Butina, whose Russian political patron Alexander Torshin is a senior figure in the country’s powerful central bank, ran a Russian gun-rights organization called the Right to Bear Arms. In December 2015, the group sponsored an NRA delegation to come to Moscow for a week. NRA dignitaries also met with another influential Russian, the former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin. Torshin subsequently came under U.S. sanctions; Rogozin had been under sanctions since 2014.

Former NRA President David Keene and soon-to-be president Peter Brownell were both on the trip. Accompanying them were Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke; NRA donors Jim Gregory and Arnold and Hilary Goldschlager; and Jim Liberatore, the president and CEO of the Outdoor Channel.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-intelligence-wants-documents-on-nras-russia-trip/

[dhol82]

1. Is that so that they can suppress everything?

[pnwmom]

2. Sen. Warner wouldn't go along with that. n/t

[dhol82]

5. That's nice.

Can he control it?

[pnwmom]

8. He's got a mouth. I don't think he'd stand by and let them use the committee

to suppress the evidence. Why even bother collecting it then?

[dhol82]

12. We'll see

Sadly, in this day and age, shit happens.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. ++1'sies

Ugh. They need to know what THEY know...so they can squash it.

[rso]

3. NRA

Actually, Burr and Warner have worked well together. Burr, though a Republican, is certainly no Devin Nunez, and has more integrity than most republicans.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. Burr has "worked well w Warner"? imHo

He was just on the edge of going along all the time. He said the words, but, this all could've been "handled" months ago if Burr REALLY worked well w Sen Warner. Sen Warner got what he got by holding folks down and pulling teeth. Burr is far from helpful. BUT, thats just my opinion...on a Friday night, at DU, before the most important election, in our lifetimes.

[dhol82]

7. That's nice to know.

How much money has he taken from ‘sources?’

[safeinOhio]

9. At least the NRA

will be sweating bullets over it.

[asiliveandbreathe]

10. I suspect Mueller has this NRA junkett in a bucket..along with everything..russia...eom

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

11. "Lordy...I hope there's tapes."

Yo Mueller...can we count on YOU rain or shine on Wed? The election will be over. No more nonsense. We're falling behind (WAY behind) on the trum family indictments. Lets go.