We already knew that the Republic of Georgia has some high-placed American contacts. Orion Strategies, the DC lobbying firm run by Randy Scheunemann, John McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, has been representing the country since 2001, focusing primarily on boosting Georgia’s effort to gain admittance to NATO (Scheunemann is currently on leave from Orion while working for McCain). Indeed, Orion signed its latest contract with Georgia on April 17, the same day that McCain announced support for Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, saying they’d just talked by the phone.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=175236