We did hear about it before the election.
He talked about it to Charlie Rose, while doing the tour for his own book, "Work hard, eat right, and stay out the Bushes", or whatever.
There have also been dialogues with Iran.
He can do this. He is non-governmental.
Besides, people talk even when they are not talking (and I don't mean in non-verbal ways).
Sometimes, even, people don't talk even when they are talking (I'm thinking of a story of one of Kissenger's "oral notes").
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