commission. does anything about the fact that the maria butina case has evolved, that she s pled guilty to unlawfully acting as a secret agent through the nra with an eye toward influencing the 2016 election, that was a big development in this saga. did any of that inflect the way that this moved or didn t through the fec? were your fellow commissioners moved by that? they were aware of it. they just didn t find it a persuasive fact in terms of investigating this complaint. unbelievable. a democrat serving on the election commission. thank you for sending the flag up the flag pole to let people know this is how it happened. thank you for helping us understand it tonight. my pleasure. we have more to get to. a busy friday night. stay with us. not again. limu that s your reflection. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty
direct your staff to make the call? we have a memorandum of understanding with the justice department. the normal procedure is for the staff to call and make that request on behalf of the agency. it s not something that individual commissioners usually do, and the fbi would probably want to respect that memorandum of understanding. they d expect to hear from the legal staff, from our counsel s office, not from commissioners. and our staff would be probably afraid to make that phone call without the direction of or at least the approval of the commission. does anything about the fact that the maria butina case has evolved, that she s pled guilty to unlawfully acting as a secret agent through the nra with an eye toward influencing the 2016 election, that was a big development in this saga. did any of that inflect the way that this moved or didn t through the fec? were your fellow commissioners moved by that?
without the direction of or at least the approval of the commission. does anything about the fact that the maria butina case has evolved, that she s pled guilty to unlawfully acting as a secret agent through the nra with an eye toward influencing the 2016 election, that was a big development in this saga. did any of that inflect the way that this moved or didn t through the fec? were your fellow commissioners moved by that? they were aware of it. they just didn t find it a persuasive fact in terms of investigating this complaint. unbelievable. a democrat serving on the election commission. thank you for sending the flag up the flag pole to let people know this is how it happened. thank you for helping us understand it tonight. my pleasure. we have more to get to. a busy friday night. stay with us.
effect undermine the obama administration s ongoing foreign policy. so, my question is, what counter intelligence concerns arise from this type of back channel coordination between an incoming presidential administration and a foreign adversary. when it comes to back channel communications on political or national security issues or views from the white house, one of the things that russia and other significant nation states, intelligence organizations, try to have that create d, and the reason they do is, they try to get the current administration, whether it s the one that s currently in there now or whenever, having their public face confuse what either the state department s saying or people that are saying stuff through a back channel. this is absolutely the exact same thing that was going on with the maria butina case, which i was the expert for for the department of justice four weeks ago at her sentencing. the key here is, russia wants to get the administration, whatever
a foreign adversary. when it comes to back channel communications on political or national security issues or views from the white house, one of the things that russia and other significant nation states, intelligence organizations tried to have that created and the reason they will do is they try to get the current administration, whether it s the one currently in there now or whenever, having their public face confuse with what either the state department is saying or people saying stuff through a ba back channel. this was going on with the maria butina case. they will do it at different levels. the key is russia wants to get the administration, whatever administration that is, off balance. what their real political views are and potential back channels. trying to get things off balance. that s just what justice department counter intelligence chief david loftman told us live