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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**Kremlin blessed Torshin/Butina NRA effort!
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This reporting indicates that Alexander Torshin was working with the blessing of the Kremlin, at a minimum, one European intelligence official told The Daily Beast. The official added that this reporting is consistent with his groups understanding of how the Kremlin operates.
The NRA is quite powerful, so when you look to influence U.S. politics, you should consider them as a convenient target, the official added.
The report, published last year, is based on conversations that happened in 2015, before NRA leaders visited Moscow on a trip arranged by Torshin and Butina. The document does not specifically name the NRA or the Republican Party, but its context makes clear it is discussing those two American organizations. (American intelligence reports generally do not name U.S. persons or organizations for privacy and legal reasons.)
According to the report, Torshin suggested that Russian officials use the NRA to reach out to politically active Americans. Torshin, then a deputy governor at Russias central bank, noted the gun rights groups influence in U.S. politics. He told the Kremlin about his contacts in the NRA, including conversations and meetings in the United States, and suggested that Kremlin officials scrutinize how some people affiliated with the group viewed relations between the U.S. and Russia.
The NRA is quite powerful, so when you look to influence U.S. politics, you should consider them as a convenient target, the official added.
The report, published last year, is based on conversations that happened in 2015, before NRA leaders visited Moscow on a trip arranged by Torshin and Butina. The document does not specifically name the NRA or the Republican Party, but its context makes clear it is discussing those two American organizations. (American intelligence reports generally do not name U.S. persons or organizations for privacy and legal reasons.)
According to the report, Torshin suggested that Russian officials use the NRA to reach out to politically active Americans. Torshin, then a deputy governor at Russias central bank, noted the gun rights groups influence in U.S. politics. He told the Kremlin about his contacts in the NRA, including conversations and meetings in the United States, and suggested that Kremlin officials scrutinize how some people affiliated with the group viewed relations between the U.S. and Russia.
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**Kremlin blessed Torshin/Butina NRA effort! (Original Post)
Roland99
Jan 2019
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So do we get Paul Whelan back now that we have proven Butina was definitely a spy?
ProudLib72
Jan 2019
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)1. So do we get Paul Whelan back now that we have proven Butina was definitely a spy?
Or will the orange shitstain hand her over in an exchange?
This is the type of shit that really pisses me off because it seems like we are so incapable of negotiating with Pooty Poot. Obama would never have let this happen.
Sneederbunk
(14,319 posts)2. NRA, meet House Committee.
cilla4progress
(24,801 posts)3. It's everything
Rachel has been telling us about for 2 years.
Must be gratifying for her, in a tragic way.