him to washington. so that part of the dossier was dated september 14 last year. you have heard me say it, you have heard everybody say it. this is an uncorroborated dosds yay, a sheaf of unproven allegations and some of those allegations are too lurid to make veiled jokes about them on basic cable but not all of it is just lurid stuff of a personal nature. this guy from the embassy, mikail kalugin, he did get called home from the russian embassy in d.c. in august. and now he really is back in moscow, mcclatchy had good reporters on this beat in recent weeks. they found them besy guy in moscow. they got him to do an angry short e-mail interview with them. he denied everything. called it fake news. but look, two people have told us that indeed mikail kalugin was under scrutiny when he departed.hail kalugin was under
liability, protecting him in no sense is he in any danger, right? in no sense is he looking at person liability in this matter, even if he did what he is alleged to have done but there s another implication, there s one clear advantage. if this guy had a key role in running this operation against our presidential election, as long as he s in moscow, he s outside the grasp of u.s. investigators. it s not just that you can t extradite him, you can t subpoena him, you can t ask him to come to congress. he s out of the way. he s in moscow. he s out of reach. and that may be the most important thing for us as a u.s. citizens. what s happening to our country? what s going on with this national security scandal that looms over our new presidency. how are we going to get to the bottom of this thing? what s most important to all of us is that if this guy had a key
like a weird story, it s outrageous, very over-the-top, based on claims from the new president and you can make of those claims what you will but once again what ends up being important here is not the wild claims of the president, right? not this distracting story that the white house has injected into the national bloodstream. it s not these wild tweets by the president. what instead ends up being really newsworthy and really interesting is what that wild story has shaken loose in terms of factual claims, confirmations, and other from this administration. don t pay attention to what they re saying especially if you don t believe them pay attention to what they re doing. pay attention to what this white house has done in the immediate aftermath and there is something really important that the white house has apparently done in the immediate aftermath of this ridiculous story. do you know who this guy is on the left there? obviously the guy on the right samuel alito, don mcgann is
was under scrutiny when he departed.hail kalugin was under scrutiny when he departed. so none of us really know wholistically what to think about this dossier. but here s one concrete checkable part of it. this guy really did work as a senior diplomat in the russian embassy in d.c. and he did get summoned back to moscow while nobody expected him to reportedly while investigators were in this role to mess up our election. that s in the dossier. that seems to have happened in real life, at least the checkable ports of it have. he served in the embassy for six years but then, yank. of course he denies having any role in this scheme, the russians deny there was such a scheme and it s possible he was yanked as a part of a normal rotation, it was time for him to go. it s also possible the russians felt like they needed to get him out. think about their reasoning behind that. because he was a senior diplomat
other than that misspelling, which screwed up my research for days, other than the misspelling, the reference in the dossier actually made sense. he was described in the dossier as a high-ranking russian diplomat in washington so page 22 of the sketchy dossier, it says senior russian diplomat withdrawn from russian embassy on account of potential expose glur u.s. presidential election operations. and then on the follow page it elaborates. as a prophylactic measure, a leading russian diplomat, mikhail kulagin, he means kalugin, was withdrawn from washington on short notice because moscow feared his heavy involvement in the u.s. election operation, including the so-called veterans pensions ruse reported previously. his heavy involvement in the u.s. election operation would be exposed in the media.