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Glenn SimpsonPage 221 rights, and I was reporting on human rights and corruption in Russia.

So I told Chris he's legit. David is someone I've known for a long time and he knows a lot about these issues and he's very concerned about Putin and the Kremlin and the rise of the new Russia and criminality and kleptocracy. So he said, well, can we trust him? And I said yes, I think we can trust him. He says he wants information to give to Senator McCain so that Senator McCain can ask questions about it at the FBI, with the leadership of the FBI. That was essentially — all we sort of wanted was for the government to do its job and we were concerned about whether the information that we provided previously had ever, you know, risen to the leadership level of the FBI. We simply just didn't know. It was our belief that Director Comey if he was aware — if he was made aware of this information would treat it seriously.

Again, at this time, you know, while we believed that we had very credible reporting here, you know, what we really — we just wanted people in official positions to ascertain whether it was accurate or not. You know, we just felt that was our obligation. So I said to Chris I think we can 1-800-FOR-DEPO