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发帖数: 24733 | 1 Democratic Sen. Mark Warner texted with Russian oligarch lobbyist in effort
to contact dossier author Christopher Steele
Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee who
has been leading a congressional investigation into President Trump's
alleged ties to Russia, had extensive contact last year with a lobbyist for
a Russian oligarch who was offering Warner access to former British spy and
dossier author Christopher Steele, according to text messages obtained
exclusively by Fox News.
"We have so much to discuss u need to be careful but we can help our country
," Warner texted the lobbyist, Adam Waldman, on March 22, 2017.
"I'm in," Waldman, whose firm has ties to Hillary Clinton, texted back to
Warner.
Steele famously put together the anti-Trump dossier of unverified
information that was used by FBI and Justice Department officials in October
2016 to get a warrant to conduct surveillance of former Trump adviser
Carter Page. Despite the efforts, Steele has not agreed to an interview with
the committee.
Secrecy seemed very important to Warner as the conversation with Waldman
heated up March 29, when the lobbyist revealed that Steele wanted a
bipartisan letter from Warner and the committee’s chairman, North Carolina
Republican Sen. Richard Burr, inviting him to talk to the Senate
intelligence panel.
Throughout the text exchanges, Warner seemed particularly intent on
connecting directly with Steele without anyone else on the Senate
Intelligence Committee being in the loop -- at least initially. In one text
to the lobbyist, Warner wrote that he would "rather not have a paper trail"
of his messages.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/democratic-sen-mark-warner-texted-with-russian-oligarch-lobbyist-in-effort-to-contact-dossier-author-christopher-steele.html | H*O
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