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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt is not a "back channel"...
in the general sense.
It is a covert plot to deal secretly with a country and its leader, in order to further personal financial deals to enrich themselves. It is not about our national security. It is about betrayal of our national interests.
We need to stop calling it a "back channel"...
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)"back channel" is wholly wrong. Maybe it should be called trying to establish a "subversive channel."
mopinko
(70,077 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,527 posts)Like we'd always joke about Trump's "red phone" Putin would call him on...turns out it wasn't a joke.
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)and hiding from the governance of government.
Something that comes easily to traitors and tax evaders.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)Even the act of proposing that arrangement compromised him with the Russians. It was going the extra mile to communicate something he did not want our own government to know about. This wasn't a proposed contact at some conference in Oslo - it was the Russian embassy in Washington DC being used as a so called "back channel".
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)kentuck
(111,078 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)It's a "sneak behind America's back" channel to traffic our secrets to the russkies.