"This isn't in keeping w the agreement. Since we clearly have some leverage, would be good to flag this for him. I could send a signal via Welch--or did you establish a direct line w him?"
"re47" is saying there is an agreement to that effect.
Right.
“Since we clearly have some leverage, would be good to flag this for him. I could send a signal via Welch—or did you establish a direct line w him?”
A person with legal leverage can be direct. But a blackmailing politician needs to send out proxies and have ‘plausible deniability’.