Laura Barron-Lopez:
In a court filing last night, special counsel David Weiss said ex-FBI informant Alexander Smirnov told them he met with Russian operatives as recently as last December.
In the filing, prosecutors wrote: “Smirnov admitted that officials associated with Russian intelligence were involved in passing a story about Businessperson 1,” referring to President Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Prosecutors say that story of a Ukrainian energy firm bribing President Biden and his son is a complete fabrication being used to interfere in U.S. elections.
Joining me to discuss the implications is Ryan Goodman, former special counsel for the Department of Defense.
Ryan, thank you so much for joining. What’s the big takeaway from this latest revelation?
Ryan Goodman, Former Department of Defense Special Counsel: So, the big takeaway is that Mr. Smirnov appears to have been acting as an agent of Russian intelligence.
And, according to the Department of Justice’s filing in court, he was knowingly passing on false derogatory information about President Biden and Hunter Biden to the FBI, and that he’s been doing so recently and actively. So that’s the kind of bombshell of that court filing by the Justice Department.
Source: www.pbs.org
