Remember when President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner talked with the Russian ambassador in December 2016 about establishing a back channel for communications. The talk between Kushner and the Russian envoy about communications was focused on the U.S. response to the crisis in Syria and other policy-related matters. The former director of the National Security Agency and the CIA, Gen. Michael Hayden, called Kushner’s request for a communications back channel “off the map." “What manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt, would you have to have to think that doing this with the Russian ambassador was a good or appropriate idea?” Hayden said. “This is off the map,” Hayden said. “I know of no other experience like this in our history, certainly within my life experience.” That was then, but now, Trump is back in the news again h aving a back channel communication with Putin and then praising Vladimir Putin as “very savvy” sh...