This is something that needs to be addressed.
I hope this FBI denial gets pursued-senator Burr, or the FBI is wrong here. - Tom
>>>Burr, the North Carolina senator, contended that the Russians contacted the FBI several times, but the bureau disputed that assertion.
This is something that needs to be addressed. I hope this FBI denial gets pursued-senator Burr, or the FBI is wrong here.<<<
Due to a diplomatic reasons law-enforcement bodies of foreign countries rarely cooperate directly (with the exception of limited exchange via Interpol etc). There are treaties and some organizations in either nation named responsible for cooperation so any other interested official addressing request to a “competent (or concerned or interested) organization of respective nation X” and submits it to their specified home organization for further processing. An idea it to check request for compliance with national interests and international law. Then request is getting sent to similar authorised organization of requested nation which is to decide if it worthy to execute and exact legal bodies to do a job. In case of Russia cooperation probably proceeds via Public prosecutor’s office, for US it might be a Dept of Justice or State (depends on details of request). And idea is to make sure if one side (say Iran rev guards) won’t request other side (say some Michigan county’s deputies) to behead some apostate and they actually do it.
A procedure like that may also mean that FBI could actually not get Russian request at all as soon as Dept of Justice or State could consider it unworthy to execute or send elsewhere.