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\"impeachNPR<\/b> – Jared Kushner discussed the possibility of Trump’s transition team secretly communicating with the Kremlin, the Washington Post reports<\/a>. Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and adviser, spoke with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak in early December of last year about setting up a “secure communications channel … using Russian diplomatic facilities” in the U.S., according to the report.<\/p>\n

Intercepts of Russian communications reportedly found that Kislyak told his superiors about the conversation. The Post<\/em> cites “U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports.” NPR has not independently confirmed the Post’s<\/em> report.<\/p>\n

Then-Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was also in the meeting, the Post<\/em> says. After Trump took office, Flynn was forced to resign from the administration because of revelations that he had misrepresented his conversations with Kislyak to Vice President Pence.<\/p>\n

The White House previously disclosed that the meeting between Kushner, Flynn and Kislyak had occurred. Friday’s report reveals one of the things they discussed: the possibility of a direct and secret line of communication.<\/p>\n

Post<\/em> reporter Greg Miller, who shared a byline with two other reporters on the story<\/a>, tells NPR establishing such a channel “would be pretty extraordinary.”<\/p>\n

“I really don’t know of an instance in history where an incoming administration is trying to set up a private channel of communication with Moscow,” Miller says.<\/p>\n

Miller reports that even Russians were concerned about the security risks of such an arrangement.<\/p>\n

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