Russian Agents Sought Secret US Treasury Records On Clinton Backers During The 2016 Campaign buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon… via @a_cormier_
The extraordinary unofficial line of communication arose in the final year of the OBAMA administration — in the midst of what multiple US intelligence agencies have said was a secret campaign by the Kremlin to interfere in the US election.
Russian agents ostensibly trying to track ISIS instead pressed their American counterparts for private financial documents on at least two dozen dissidents, academics, private investigators, and American citizens.
In an astonishing departure from protocol, documents show that at the same time the requests were being made, Treasury officials were using government email accounts to send messages back and forth with a network of private Hotmail and Gmail accounts set up by the Russians.
Accounts set up by the Russians were used instead of communicating through the secure network usually used to exchange information with other countries.
