Former acting CIA director John McLaughlan on Friday responded to reports that President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner discussed setting up a secret communications line between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, saying if such reports are true, it would be considered espionage.
“I don’t want to overstate this because obviously there is a lot we don’t know — we don’t know the exact content of the conversation. We don’t know the objective that was a part of the conversation — those things we don’t know,” McLaughlan said on MSNBC’s “The Last Word” Friday.
“But I can’t keep out of my mind the thought that, if an American intelligence officer had done anything like this, we’d consider it espionage.”
The president’s son-in-law and senior adviser inquired about using Russian diplomatic facilities for the communications, apparently to shield the talks, U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports told The Washington Post.
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Ex-CIA director on Kushner setting up secure line with Russia: It could be considered espionage https://t.co/tTWPzBee6K pic.twitter.com/dmNI1tYzfx
— The Hill (@thehill) May 27, 2017
Again: Any WH using HoIS communications is not a "back-channel" — it is ESPIONAGE. WH still hasn't denied. This isn't complicated, folks.
— John Schindler (@20committee) May 27, 2017
“WH still hasn’t denied”
That’s because they are still discussing it in the Russia “War Room”.
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