What the world will not see is the scarlet thread of Maidan that is wrapped around Putin and Trump as they waltz together at the G20 summit.

The longs knives of Republicans in the Senate and Congress are being sharpened against the FBI investigation into Putin's collusion with Trump officials during the 2016 US presidential elections, which ultimately led to Trump now occupying the White House.

Republican Senators Grassley and Graham (left) have, on June 27, 2017, fired off a letter to Rod J. Rosenstein (right : McCabe and Rosenstein), Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, and Andrew McCabe, Acting Director, FBI, demanding that, 

(a) Copies of all proposed and all final signed FISA applications submitted to the FISC relating to: Russian interference in the 2016 election; allegations of collusion between people associated with the Trump campaign and Russia; and any known Trump associates regardless of context. 

(b) Copies of all FISC responses to the above-mentioned applications in which the Court notified the FBI or Justice Department that it would not grant the proposed applications or recommended changes.  If any such FISC responses were provided orally, rather than in writing, please provide copies of all FBI or Justice Department records memorializing or otherwise referencing the relevant FISC responses. 

 

(c) Copies of all FISC orders relating to the above-mentioned applications, whether denying the applications and certifications, denying the orders, modifying the orders, granting the orders, or other types of orders.

Essentially, the focus of Republican Senators Grassley and Lindsey is to discredit the Steele dossier, and to argue that it was this dossier that precipitated James Comey, then Director of the FBI, to set in motion the 'Russia Investigation'.

As Rachel Maddow of MSNBC explains,

"They're saying implicitly that that dossier of materials is unproven and suspect and that's what the FBI's whole investigation is based on"  (MSNBC : 28 June, 2017)

In other words, Grassley and Graham are, in effect, saying that ALL the EU secret agencies, that have substatianted much in this dossier, are not to be believed.  

 Even more significantly, Grassley and Graham are trying to divert the attention of the American public from the fact that, as reported by Robert Mendick and Robert Verkaik,

"An ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up. it has been claimed.

...

Erovinkin (left)  has been described as a key liaison between Sechin and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Mr Steele writes in an intelligence report dated July 19, 2016, he has a source close to Sechin, who had disclosed alleged links between Mr Trump’s supporters and Moscow.
The death of Erovinkin has prompted speculation it is linked to Mr Steele’s explosive dossier .." (The Telegraph : 27 January 2017) (my emphasis)

Central to the Steele report is the fact that,

By trying to undermine the veracity of many details in, if not ALL of, the Steele report, Grassley and Graham are playing directly into the hands of Putin.

The EU-US sanctions against Putin and his 'siloviki' clique in the Kremlin, that resulted from the ongoing war between Putin and Ukraine, and Putin's illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea; that 'sanctions' scarlet thread of Maidan cannot so easily be wished away by either Grassley or Graham since it is the very raison d'être of Putin helping Trump get elected president of the US.

And next week the world waits with bated breath as,

"President Donald Trump will meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next week at the G20 summit in Germany.

Senior White House officials declined to say whether Mr Trump would address Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, said the agenda for the high stakes meeting had not been finalised. (Nick Allen and Harriet Alexander : The Telegraph : 29 June 2017) (my emphasis)

So the world will be watching as Trump and Putin waltz together at the G20 summit in Germany, straining to hear what these two will be whispering into each other's ear.

What the world will not see is the scarlet thread of Maidan that is wrapped around them as they waltz together at the G20 summit.

 (to be continued)