1. What's a back channel? Remember in high school when you liked someone but were a afraid to talk to them?
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Replying to @HeerJeet
2. So in high school you told a friend who told a friend who told the person you liked that you liked them. So were using a back channel.
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3. During Vietnam War, USA would give message to Canada who gave message to Poland who gave message to North Vietnam.A back channel.
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4. What's NOT a back channel? Let's say you set up secret email account to send messages to your mistress.That's cheating not a back channel
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5. From what we've seen, Kushner to cheating husband with secret email account than someone with a back channel.
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6. Last point: normally you don't have back channels with a country you have normal diplomatic relations with.
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You realize we have at least three back channels to Russia, at least one since 1963.
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Obama added another in 2013 specifically for cyberattacks to be deconflicted. Reagan added one in '88. The other was a telex, then a fax.
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Now it's a secure computer network between the white house and the kremlin.
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Sigh.I don't think you understand what a back channel is.
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It's a secondary, usually covert, route for passing information between two parties.
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We literally have a secure, secret computer network Obama used last Halloween to contact Putin about potential election hacking.
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