I've seen a handful of criticisms of the back-channel story... and a couple decrying the use of "back-channel" to describe requesting secret communication as it conflates actual diplomatic practices with what could be construed as pure espionage...
""backchannel communications" has never, ever meant using Russian communications equipment to avoid FBI detection"
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yeaaaaah, right....
Date: 2017-05-28 01:01 am (UTC)""backchannel communications" has never, ever meant using Russian communications equipment to avoid FBI detection"
This keeps getting more and more disreputable.