>>Meeting a russian borne lawyer with a company hat to discuss tower shaped caviar would have been less problematic with the side info of some Clinton bad news...
Yes. He made 2 mistakes: a) not to be a swamp creature with intermediates and deviousness in everything, and b) that embarrassing online communication was leaked.
Talk about Hubris. So many of these movers and shakers seem to forget the basic rule that in email or on the internet you never say anything unless you're happy for it to be published, or about anybody unless you're happy for them to see it. Because they probably will, thanks to hackers, leakers and cutters of corners.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
