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Lock him up? No. SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY!
I confess that this post's title is a provocation, yet it is also sincere. If this Reuters report and this WP report are true -- and as of this writing, they have not been denied -- Jared Kushner is a traitor. He should not simply lose his job; he must be tried. Tried for treason.Kushner lied on his security clearance forms -- forms which clearly state that a deliberate falsification will result in jail. Any claim that Kushner "forgot" is a bad joke. He cannot possibly have forgotten a meeting with the Russian ambassador in Trump Tower and trying to set up a back channel communication system using Russian facilities.
Matthew Yglesias offered a hilarous tweet: "Who among us has never set up a secret, secure back-channel line of communication with the Russian government?" Indeed! Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
You wanna know who really is without sin in all this? Hillary Clinton.
Yet the Republicans chanted "Lock her up!" because Hillary set up a private email server. Contrary to the incessant lies spewed by the right-wing propaganda, that server handled NON-classified communications, with a couple of accidental exceptions. (The most often-cited of these exceptions was a piece of piffle about Malawi which never should have received a classification stamp.)
Yet the Republican establishment demanded that Hillary Clinton lose her security clearance. The same establishment is now trying to come up with a way to save Kushner's ass.
The hypocrisy on display here is beyond flabbergasting -- in fact, I cannot think of a parallel in all of history Anyone who can damn Hillary while excusing Kushner and Trump must be mentally sick.
At this time (last December), Trump and his team were bad-mouthing the U.S. intelligence community. Kushner's back-channel was designed to keep Trump's communications with Putin hidden from our people, not from the FSB. Kushner -- and presumably Trump -- trusted the FSB more than he trusted the CIA.
Moreover, the quid-pro-quo has become ever more obvious. Although he has made a few yanked-from-the-mouth pro-NATO comments in the recent past, Trump has made clear during his European tour that he wants to weaken or end the alliance. Even Josh Marshall, the "safe-and-sane" blogger who usually steers clear of anything that reeks of conspiracy theory, admits as much.
It is also quite clear that Trump has personally received funding from the Russians, channeled through Deutsche Bank and the Bank of Cyprus, both of which have provided Putin with money laundry services. No one else would loan money to Trump, given his bankruptcies and general unwillingness to pay back loans. As recently as 2008, Trump and Deutsche Bank were engaged in a lawsuit because Trump didn't want to pay what he owed. Trump continued to get loans through a Deutsche Bank subsidiary -- and with each passing day, it is becoming clear that he must have had Russian co-signers.
But the Trump/Russia financial links go far deeper than that. From Vox:
A stray line in the Times story offers a hint of a possible alternate explanation for Kushner’s unusual communications requests:The WP says that the newspaper first learned about Kushner's backchannel from an unusual source:
In the days after the meeting with Mr. Kislyak, Mr. Kushner had a separate meeting with Sergey Gorkov, a Russian banker with close links to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
The Post’s reporting also mentions the Gorkov meeting, more pointedly suggesting that FBI investigators see a possible link between the two events:
The White House disclosed the meeting only in March, playing down its significance. But people familiar with the matter say the FBI now considers the encounter, as well as another meeting Kushner had with a Russian banker, to be of investigative interest.
Tim O’Brien of Bloomberg View, a Trump biographer who Trump has in the past unsuccessfully sued for libel, speculates that Kushner’s interest in Gorkov and his bank was fundamentally about money:
At the time, Kushner had already spent months trying to arrange fresh financing for a troubled building his family owns, 666 Fifth Avenue.
After one of those meetings, Kislyak arranged a meeting between Kushner and Sergey Gorkov, the powerful chief executive of a major Russian bank, Vnesheconombank, also known as VEB.
The Post was first alerted in mid-December to the meeting by an anonymous letter, which said, among other things, that Kushner had talked to Kislyak about setting up the communications channel. This week, officials who reviewed the letter and spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence said the portion about the secret channel was consistent with their understanding of events.The WP story indicates that the intelligence community learned about the Trump Tower dialogue not through eavesdropping of that location but via an intercepted "after action" report sent by Russian ambassador Kislyak to his superior in Moscow. Frankly, I'm a bit dubious of this part of the story. I now suspect that Trump Tower was bugged -- or "tapped" -- and for damned good reason. However, if that fact were revealed to the public at this time, the Trumpers would try to switch the narrative, blaming the Obama administration for the "tapp." It is simpler all around for the story to be sourced back to Kislyak's report to his superiors, since that's the kind of communication that the NSA is supposed to monitor.
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