GOP Senator on Russian Election Hack: Hey, Everyone Does It [View all]
Source: The Daily Beast
Ahead of a congressional trip to Moscow, Richard Shelby of Alabama downplayed the Kremlin’s election interference, saying, ‘We’ve done a lot of things, too.’
ANDREW DESIDERIO
SPENCER ACKERMAN
06.28.18 6:02 PM ET
Shortly before traveling to Moscow with several colleagues, a senior Republican senator all but gave Russia a green light for future interference in U.S. elections.
"Most countries would meddle and play in our domestic elections if they could, and some of them have," the Washington Examiner quoted Sen. Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican and chairman of the powerful Appropriations Committee, as saying.
"We have to be realistic nations are going to do what is in their next [sic] interest; we’ve done a lot of things too."
Shelby, a former chairman of the Senate’s intelligence committee, is leading a delegation of Republican senators to Russia for nine days to meet with Russian officials. It’s unclear if they will meet with Vladimir Putin or his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov.
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