The primary author of the House Intelligence Committee memo released Friday reportedly tried to meet outside official channels with the researcher behind a controversial dossier.
Kashyap Patel, a senior staffer for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), sought a meeting in London with Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS to research the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, according to The New York Times.
Nunes last summer reportedly sent Patel and another Republican staffer on the committee to meet with Steele at his London office to establish contact with the former agent’s lawyers, but showed up unannounced and were denied the meeting, a senior committee official told The Times.
The move was unknown to Democrats and the U.S. Embassy in London, and did not go by the standard protocol of arranging the meeting through attorneys.
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JUST IN: Top Nunes staffer who worked on GOP memo tried to meet dossier author outside official channels: report https://t.co/zzQwHXBPkv pic.twitter.com/mYlWOs5VXX
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