Of course, once you get past the salacious headline, the story may not be as much of a “bombshell” as NBC would undoubtedly like it to be.<\/strong>\u00a0 It seems this “former Soviet counter intelligence officer”, a man that NBC refuses to identify for some reason,\u00a0emigrated to the U.S. some time ago, is an American lobbyist and holds dual citizenship in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n \nThe Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a\u00a0Russian-American lobbyist \u2014 a former Soviet counter intelligence officer who is suspected by some U.S. officials of having ongoing ties to Russian intelligence,<\/strong>\u00a0NBC News has learned. The Russian-born American lobbyist served in the Soviet military and emigrated to the U.S., where he holds dual citizenship.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ironically, and we’re just spitballing here so don’t hold us to it, maybe, just maybe,\u00a0bringing a ‘lobbyist’ to a meeting in which your intent is to ‘lobby’ for the overturn of the Magnitsky Act might just be something that makes sense rather than being part of a larger plot to rig an entire American presidential election.<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, as Natasha Bertrand of Business Insider notes,\u00a0the identity of this ‘mysterious’ 6th person was actually revealed last week by the New York Times as Rinat Akhmetshin.<\/strong>\u00a0 And, guess what?\u00a0\u00a0He was part of a\u00a0lobbying team\u00a0put together by Veselnitskaya to overturn the Magnitsky Act\u00a0<\/strong>and was actually the person who organized the showing of that anti-Magnitsky Act film at the Newseum, which Veselnitskaya attended, 4 days after the infamous Don Jr. meeting.<\/p>\n Ah ha. NYT described Akhmetshin last week as part of a lobbying team put together by Veselnitskaya & Katsyv to overturn Magnitsky. pic.twitter.com\/e2btaEfIG2<\/a><\/p>\n — Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 14, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nNBC News is not naming the lobbyist, who denies any current ties to Russian spy agencies.<\/strong>\u00a0He accompanied the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n![\"Don](\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2017\/07\/14\/Donald%20Trump%20Jr._0.JPG\")
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