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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA's Russia Trip
The Senate intelligence committee has asked the National Rifle Association to provide documents on its connections to Russiaincluding documents related to a 2015 trip some of its top leaders made to Moscow. Thats according to two sources briefed on the committees activities.
The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Spokespersons for Sen. Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chair, and Sen. Mark Warner, the panels ranking member, declined to comment on the record.
The NRAs Russia connections have drawn growing public scrutiny after a key figure in Russian outreach to the powerful gun lobby, Maria Butina, was indicted in July on charges of being an undeclared Russian operative connected to the countrys intelligence apparatus. Butina sought to use guns as a lever to tilt the Republican Party in a pro-Kremlin direction, creating a political firestorm for the NRA in the wake of her arrest. The intelligence committees document request is just one part of the aftermath.
Butina, whose Russian political patron Alexander Torshin is a senior figure in the countrys powerful central bank, ran a Russian gun-rights organization called the Right to Bear Arms. In December 2015, the group sponsored an NRA delegation to come to Moscow for a week. NRA dignitaries also met with another influential Russian, the former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin. Torshin subsequently came under U.S. sanctions; Rogozin had been under sanctions since 2014.
The NRA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Spokespersons for Sen. Richard Burr, the intelligence committee chair, and Sen. Mark Warner, the panels ranking member, declined to comment on the record.
The NRAs Russia connections have drawn growing public scrutiny after a key figure in Russian outreach to the powerful gun lobby, Maria Butina, was indicted in July on charges of being an undeclared Russian operative connected to the countrys intelligence apparatus. Butina sought to use guns as a lever to tilt the Republican Party in a pro-Kremlin direction, creating a political firestorm for the NRA in the wake of her arrest. The intelligence committees document request is just one part of the aftermath.
Butina, whose Russian political patron Alexander Torshin is a senior figure in the countrys powerful central bank, ran a Russian gun-rights organization called the Right to Bear Arms. In December 2015, the group sponsored an NRA delegation to come to Moscow for a week. NRA dignitaries also met with another influential Russian, the former deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin. Torshin subsequently came under U.S. sanctions; Rogozin had been under sanctions since 2014.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/senate-intelligence-wants-documents-on-nras-russia-trip?ref=home
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Senate Intelligence Wants Documents on NRA's Russia Trip (Original Post)
spanone
Nov 2018
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)1. The DOJ should be investigating this . . .
dalton99a
(81,543 posts)2. Good.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)5. At some point I suspect there will be out outright refusal to submit.