Mueller gathers evidence that 2016 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremli

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Source: Washington Post

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back-channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin apparently contradicting statements made to lawmakers by one of its participants, according to people familiar with the matter.

In January, 2016, Erik Prince, the founder of the private military company Blackwater, met with a Russian official close to President Vladimir Putin, and later described the meeting to congressional investigators as a chance encounter that was not a planned discussion of U.S.-Russia relations.

A witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the two countries, according to the people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

George Nader, a Lebanese-American business who helped organize and attended the Seychelles meeting, has testified on the matter before a grand jury gathering evidence about discussions between the Trump transition team and emissaries of the Kremlin, as part of Muellers investigation into Russian efforts to interfere with the 2016 election.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mueller-gathers-evidence-that-2016-seychelles-meeting-was-effort-to-establish-back-channel-to-kremlin/2018/03/07/b6a5fb8c-224b-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html

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Full title: Mueller gathers evidence that 2016 Seychelles meeting was effort to establish back channel to Kremlin

Poor Rachel will have to update her show again. Probably Chris Hayes too. It is literally a daily thing.

(adding @ 8:06 pm ET - Chris is talking about it right now... )

Edit to add obligatory Benjamin Wittes' boom tweet on this!

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7:40 PM - Mar 7, 2018

[Leghorn21]

1. Bing bang boom, its trump oclock!! Thanks, ya Bum!! nt!!

[Sophia4]

2. Nixon is alleged to have interfered in Johnson's negotiations with Viet Nam.

Reagan's staff is alleged to have interfered with Carter's hostage negotiations.

This is how Republicans operate.

[unc70]

8. Nothing alleged about it

We have the LBJ audio tapes as proof. Nixon was guilty of treason.

[flibbitygiblets]

3. Anyone else suspicious about this Nader guy?

He organized the whole thing, just happened to be strolling through a US airport, got asked politely by Team Mueller to come to their Grand Jury part, said "why yes of course I will", and then spilt all the beans. Seems too good to be true; fishy.

[Leghorn21]

4. Excellent post on Nader from earlier today, giblets:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210328309

[renate]

5. at what point is Fox going to have to admit defeat (to themselves), get out in front of this, and

... report what is really going on?

By now there is literally no chance that Russia is a nothingburger. There is no way that this is going to just go away. Fox needs to recognize that they have a problem on their hands.

People will be going to jail soon. At which time Fox is going to have to say "You guys, we lied," or "You guys, we were totally taken in."

Their only choice at this point, if they want to remain anything other than a total joke/conspiracy outlet, is to start gradually reporting on what we've been seeing all along, so that when Trump and about a hundred other people all go down, they can have a few shreds of dignity to cling to.

[UpInArms]

6. The drops are becoming waves

Hopefully, soon, this grifting crew will be swept out of our White House

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Drip drip splash

[FarPoint]

12. I sense that a big boom will happen around the time Comey's book comes out.

tRump is very boxed in right now....

[grantcart]

9. I was sceptical that this was a thing. Its not just a thing its a

[blitzen]

10. Not long ago this was called Espionage and the penalty was...

life in prison. Now it seems to be business as usual for the GOP. All these Trump pricks need to be treated as treasonous spies.

[brush]

11. How do you have a "chance encounter" on an extremely hard to get to island in the middle of...

the Indian Ocean?

These trump people think they are so smart but can't come up with a better lie than that?

A fucking chance encounter on a island?

Ya don't just happen to be on a fucking island.

[blue-wave]

13. K&R

Geez, It's so difficult to keep up with all the breaking news. If the orange guy was a Democrat, he'd have been removed from office by now.