text: Russia is not "any" country.  It's an oligarchic quasi-dictatorship with 1,800 operational nuclear warheads on ICBMs and nuclear-powered submarines, run by a former KGB agent who has consolidated his stranglehold over 17 years through blackmail, violence and intimidation, and is dedicated to the weakening of democratic governance and alliances.  Further, this entreaty of Kushner's dates to the early transition, well before the IC determined the national interest required selective leaking of this administration's wildly irresponsible and damaging sabotage of our security.  And third, to repeat, why on earth would Kushner suggest we use *Russia's* communication system -- sequestered from our ability to track it -- to "do government business" with Putin's Russia?  Even Kislyak, their ambassador, was taken aback is suggestion, as it would expose otherwise secure Russian communications architecture to the president's son-in-law and senior advisor.  Why not route through a third country?