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    What It Means to Have Russian Spies as Clients

    The lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. once represented the FSB. But that story is less about espionage than about money.
    by Julia Ioffe Jul 21, 2017 2 minutes
    Source: Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters

    One day, we may find the smoking gun, or the one thing that unlocks what really happened in that June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. But Friday morning’s Reuters story about Veselnitskaya’s legal work for the FSB isn’t quite it.

    The story, reported out of Moscow, provides evidence that to Veselnitskaya’s ties to the world of Russian intelligence. And they could be forgiven for thinking that, given the article’s splashy headline: “Exclusive: Moscow lawyer who met Trump Jr. had Russian spy agency as client.”

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