06-14-2017, 03:24 PM
(06-14-2017, 02:56 PM)hollodero Wrote: He recused himself at the beginning of March. He was a member of the government before that, and a member of the transition team before that.
That in all this time he never got any kind of intelligence or a briefing or anything among these lines regarding Russian interference attempts seems highly unlikely to me.
I don't know the full context of the statement since it wasn't provided here, but what I can tell you is that from the beginning of March to now there has been a lot of things that have happened in the investigation. I have spoken with staffers from DC before, and they have told me that because of the pace of many things, the moment you stop getting briefed on a topic you have already fallen behind. Compound that with us not knowing the extent to which he was briefed on it to begin with, and there are a ton of unknowns, there.
I don't have a hard time believing that his knowledge of the investigation and the Russian meddling extends beyond media reporting at all, just based on my second-hand information on the intelligence and investigative communities.
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