Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein partially defied the Senate Intelligence Committee's request for documents and other correspondence relating to her 2016 campaign, telling CNN it "violated basic constitutional protections."
The committee is investigating Russian election interference in the 2016 election.
"We thought that where requests were made that violated basic constitutional protections, that wasn't a good idea, not for anybody, and we did not want to be part of setting a precedent that intrudes further on our civil liberties," Stein said. "Legitimate concerns about interference in our election should not be twisted into a campaign of censorship, war-mongering, and political intimidation against opposition to the bipartisan establishment."
Stein and her campaign have already turned material over to the committee, including email correspondence with RT, a Russian state-funded media network, as well as documents related to her now highly publicized 2015 trip to Moscow where she attended a dinner hosted by RT and where former Trump administration aide Michael Flynn and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat next to her.
But Stein rejected a request for communications with "Russian persons, or representatives of Russian government, media, or business interests," arguing it was too broad.
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