[Alberta's Child]

The judge surmised that there could be only two reasons why Kushner did not inform the FBI about the meeting when he filled out his national security application. Either this "was a bumbling, foolish thing to do, or this was the beginning of some steps in furtherance of acquiring this information," Judge Nap said.

I'm no fan of Jared Kushner, but maybe there's a third reason here.

The rules governing these national security applications are very clear about reporting contacts with foreign governments, but foreign individuals with no known government contacts aren't treated the same way.

I'm speculating that the meetings were never reported on these disclosure forms because the foreigners involved in the meetings weren't working in any official government capacity.

[NEMDF]

What you said... I agree with you. Did not meet with foreign governments.

[ptsal]

Bingo.... Occam's Razor-a much more reasonable explanation.

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The rules governing these national security applications are very clear about reporting contacts with foreign governments, but foreign individuals with no known government contacts aren't treated the same way.

I'm speculating that the meetings were never reported on these disclosure forms because the foreigners involved in the meetings weren't working in any official government capacity.

[Cementjungle]

I'm speculating that the meetings were never reported on these disclosure forms because the foreigners involved in the meetings weren't working in any official government capacity.

I think the disclosure forms aren't really an issue. The only "possible" issue is with Federal law that tries to keep foreign influence out of our elections (52 U.S. Code § 30121).

Here's a much more clear cut case where this was prosecuted... a Florida man funneled $80K from a foreign entity (Socialist Party of Albania) into Obama's re-election campaign in 2012:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/florida-man-pleads-guilty-helping-disguise-foreign-contribution-during-2012-presidential

Naturally, no one in Obama's campaign who TOOK this dirty money got into trouble, and this man middle man from Florida only got probation

Here's the Albanian's Socialist who funneled money to Obama in 2013 (and then became prime minister of Albania in 2013)