Originally Posted by shiraz9944

Seriously Rochard? JFK used his brother RFK the attorney general at the time (talk about having family in your admin?) to use a backchannel to that had a direct line to the Russian ambassador, so they could propose removing jupiter missiles from Turkey in exchange for removing missiles from Cuba. They did this communication at dinner in Washington, not a classified direct line to the Kremlin. This way they could avoid any public embarrassment for caving to our demands and we avoided WW3 because of it.

back channels are very important in getting things done between low level staffers so they can avoid public embarrassment.

BUT in this particular case. I have defended Trump and is staff to the hilt and I do still defend most of his staff and to a certain extent him but he's letting his family ties get in the way of governing right. Kushner is definitely insane for doing this, it is a terrible breach of national security to use the OTHER guys comms to establish a channel. He can be recorded and monitored, blackmailed later. Plus this is a HIGH level staffer not a low level one and it's a direct line not a true back channel thru a reporter or another staffer somewhere else. They are in trouble, Donald is gonna get himself in trouble if he keeps Kushner in the WH. I think he is a true spy at this point. He needs to be removed now.