I have no opinion on the nature of the meeting but the White House Advisor is named directly in the article and they include screen shots of the emails.

This is the advisor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._David_Edelman

See also https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/author/r-david-ede...

It's not like he was Secretary of State but he also wasn't just an intern.