The campaign of the Green Party’s 2016 presidential nominee, Jill Stein, turned over documents to the Senate Intelligence Committee for its Russia investigation, according to a report Wednesday.
Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., told BuzzFeed on Monday Stein’s campaign provided the documents, which were requested by the committee last year.
“We got a sufficient supply; we got an adequate response from them,” Burr told the news outlet.
The committee’s interest in Stein was reportedly sparked by her presence at a dinner in Moscow organized by Kremlin-backed news outlet RT in 2015. While at the dinner, Stein was seated at a table with Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Stein “has been a long-term defender of [Julian] Assange and Wikileaks, which clearly was involved in dumping some disparaging information.”
Burr told BuzzFeed that the committee was looking for signs that Stein’s campaign had colluded with the Russians.
“Our campaign has observed the highest standards of transparency and integrity in our interactions with foreign nationals as well as Americans,” Stein said in a statement in December.
