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<blockquote data-quote="Jones" data-source="post: 2868061" data-attributes="member: 4805"><a href="https://amp.businessinsider.com/michael-hayden-kushner-meeting-trump-russia-unmasked-2017-5" target="_blank">Former CIA Director: &#039;Now we know&#039; why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been &#039;unmasked&#039;</a><a href="https://amp.businessinsider.com/michael-hayden-kushner-meeting-trump-russia-unmasked-2017-5" target="_blank"></a>But Kushner, President Donald Trump&#039;s son-in-law and a top White House adviser, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-backchannel-plan-russia-flynn-2017-5" target="_blank">floated the possibility of setting up a secure line of communication</a> between the Trump transition team and Russia when he met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak late last year, The Washington Post reported Friday.Those talks would take place in Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, the Post said, creating a secure line that would essentially conceal the administration&#039;s interactions with Russian officials from US government scrutiny.Kislyak reportedly passed along that request to Moscow, in a phone call that was promptly intercepted by US intelligence agencies during their routine eavesdropping of foreign agents on US soil. Kislyak&#039;s call, which apparently described an attempt to bypass the US&#039; national security and intelligence apparatus, would have gone into an intelligence report and been distributed among top government officials like Rice.It also would have raised a big red flag, Hayden said. He was unequivocal when asked if he would have sought to unmask the US person cited by Kislyak as having proposed a secret backchannel to Russia.&quot;Oh my, yes,&quot; Hayden told Business Insider on Saturday. &quot;Anyone would have.&quot; </blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jones, post: 2868061, member: 4805"] [URL='https://amp.businessinsider.com/michael-hayden-kushner-meeting-trump-russia-unmasked-2017-5'][SIZE=5][B]Former CIA Director: 'Now we know' why Trump officials talking to the Russians may have been 'unmasked'[/B] [B][/B][/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=5][I][SIZE=4]But Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and a top White House adviser, [URL='http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-kushner-backchannel-plan-russia-flynn-2017-5']floated the possibility of setting up a secure line of communication[/URL] between the Trump transition team and Russia when he met with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak late last year, The Washington Post reported Friday. Those talks would take place in Russian diplomatic facilities in the US, the Post said, creating a secure line that would essentially conceal the administration's interactions with Russian officials from US government scrutiny. Kislyak reportedly passed along that request to Moscow, in a phone call that was promptly intercepted by US intelligence agencies during their routine eavesdropping of foreign agents on US soil. Kislyak's call, which apparently described an attempt to bypass the US' national security and intelligence apparatus, would have gone into an intelligence report and been distributed among top government officials like Rice. It also would have raised a big red flag, Hayden said. He was unequivocal when asked if he would have sought to unmask the US person cited by Kislyak as having proposed a secret backchannel to Russia.[/SIZE][/I] [SIZE=4]"[I]Oh my, yes," Hayden told Business Insider on Saturday. "Anyone would have." [/I][/SIZE] [B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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