Special Edition: Buzzfeed Follows Peter Smiths Money

Published: Aug. 11, 2018, 2:44 a.m.

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There\\u2019s a new twist in one of the stranger subplots of\\xa0L\\u2019Affaire Russe:\\xa0Buzzfeed News reports\\xa0that Peter Smith, a Republican operative who reportedly sought to obtain missing Hillary Clinton emails during the 2016 presidential campaign, made several suspicious withdrawals from bank accounts during the timeframe of his quest for Clinton\\u2019s emails\\u2014suggesting that he may have paid people he believed were Russian hackers.

Benjamin Wittes is joined by Buzzfeed reporter Anthony Cormier and former Assistant Attorney General for National Security David Kris to make sense of it all.\\xa0

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