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CIA broke the law to take out its critic General Flynn
americanthinker.com ^ | 2/14/17 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/14/2017 9:30:50 AM PST by ColdOne

Make no mistake: we have just witnessed an operation by members of the CIA to take out a high official of our own government. An agency widely believed to have brought down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same dark arts in domestic American politics. Almost certainly, its new head, Mike Pompeo, was not consulted.

Senator Chuck Schumer, of all people, laid out on January 2 what was going to happen to the Trump administration if it dared take on the deep state – the permanent bureaucracy that has contempt for the will of the voters and feels entitled to run the government for its own benefit:

New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia's cyber activities.

"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

"So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this."

Or, as the old rueful saying has it, "you've got to go along to get along." This means that we the people had better acknowledge that the bureaucrats have turned into our masters, and the old expression "public servant" is as ironic as anything Orwell came up with. Schumer knows this and likes it, because the deep state wants a bigger, more powerful government, just as he does.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bhocia; first100days; flynncia; flynnintel; flynnresigns; trump45; trumpcia
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1 posted on 02/14/2017 9:30:50 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

Is this true? CIA is source of leak? Or other leftovers in the White House and elsewhere? Surely only a few people were privy to the recordings. Should be able to find person who leaked or allowed the leak.


2 posted on 02/14/2017 9:33:14 AM PST by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: ColdOne

Here is the link: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/cia_broke_the_law_to_take_out_its_critic_general_flynn.html


3 posted on 02/14/2017 9:33:25 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: ColdOne

We should Pizzagate the living s*** out of them.

I smell so much so little as one whiff of oregano, I am will meme up a hurricane.

The World will be my tapestry.


4 posted on 02/14/2017 9:35:04 AM PST by gaijin
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To: ColdOne

Mindless (and erroneous) speculation. Flynn himself publicly stated that he was not forthright to the VP. But, I suppose this idle speculation does serve an intended purpose of stirring the pot to a salaciously frothy level... and thereby assisting the Leftists.


5 posted on 02/14/2017 9:35:17 AM PST by Obadiah (Democrats continue to wage their crusade against normal.)
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To: ColdOne

We should all be alarmed that our CIA taps the phones of private citizens like Gen. Flynn.

People need to go to jail over this.


6 posted on 02/14/2017 9:35:38 AM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Reno89519

I’m gonna go with Odungo leftovers...underlings


7 posted on 02/14/2017 9:36:25 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Reno89519

Ok . Well who ever it was committed felonies galore. This is an attempted Coup d’ Tat against out president. We need immediate seizure of records and polygraph everyone. I want illegal wire tapper arrested and anyone that knew or should have knoe prosecuted NOW. Get Comey OUT OF THERE!!!


8 posted on 02/14/2017 9:36:40 AM PST by WENDLE (Trump RULES IMMIGRATION!! Sanctuary crap will STOP or no money. ZERO!!)
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To: ColdOne

The CIA gained far too much power in the last administration. They started several wars, are operating in more countries than ever, and now they are attempting to overthrow the elected government in the United States. And they are doing this for the Democrat Party. It seems the real Fascist party the world should be worried about are the Democrats in the United States


9 posted on 02/14/2017 9:39:55 AM PST by realcleanguy
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To: ColdOne

Maybe it’s nothing more than Flynn lied to Pence.


10 posted on 02/14/2017 9:41:02 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: ColdOne; All

It may not be the CIA. It could be the NSA or maybe the DIA.

But your point is exactly correct. We have people in the government who have access to all the electronic and phone records of nearly everyone in the U.S.A., who have used that power to take down one of the President’s closest advisors.

Yes, the struggle is who will be the master? The elected representatives, or the intelligence agencies and the Establishment media.


11 posted on 02/14/2017 9:41:34 AM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: ColdOne

I've seen this in Mad Magazine (back when that was good). It usually turns out badly for the spies on both sides.

If self-centered brats at CIA are trying to take down the President, I hope other more patriotic spies will take them down. Better this should get ugly than corrupt spies should successfully take down their own president out of self-interest.

12 posted on 02/14/2017 9:44:03 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ColdOne

I’m so depressed and heartbroken . Flynn was the man to fight Islam.

Huge loss.This is why the media got rid of him:

Here is flynn saying correctly Islam is a malignant cancer
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/734285/Michael-Flynn-Donald-Trump-National-Security-Advisor-Islam

DONALD TRUMP’S choice for National Security Advisor was filmed calling Islam a “cancer which pretends to be a religion” – raising concerns over the direction of the next White House administration.


13 posted on 02/14/2017 9:44:06 AM PST by Democrat_media (Yellen raising rates with only 1.8% growth to hurt Trump send USA to depression)
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To: ColdOne

The CIA is a law unto itself.


14 posted on 02/14/2017 9:45:14 AM PST by sport
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To: ColdOne

FBN had Dennis Kusinich on this morning. I know, Dennis Kusinich? But it was compelling.


15 posted on 02/14/2017 9:45:16 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Democrat_media

Do you think that Flynn was the only one in this administration that feels this way?

Get a grip!!!

What do you think Mattis, Pompeo, Kelly, Tillerson and Sessions think?

More importantly what does the President say?


16 posted on 02/14/2017 9:48:19 AM PST by DarthVader ("These lying tyrants are about to get hit with a tsunami of destruction on their evil reign." Gaffer)
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To: WENDLE

I would like to see it also. But it is not going to happen. Meanwhile another day has passed. Is Congress working on passing any of President Trump’s reforms such as tax cuts, or repealing and replacing obamacare?


17 posted on 02/14/2017 9:49:41 AM PST by sport
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To: ColdOne

All of the folks slamming Flynn now were silent when he was at DIA during obozo’s tenure


18 posted on 02/14/2017 9:50:40 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: ColdOne

“An agency widely believed to have brought down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same dark arts in domestic American politics”

Hell, they started that way back in November of 1963.

The CIA was smuggling missiles to AL Qeida through Benghazi, they launched ISIS, AL Nusra and are the prime mover behind the civil war and the new cold war. Of course they hated Flynn.

The intelligence community was spying on the incoming Trump administration and released it through that AG that Trump fired. The shadow government is fighting hard to co-opt Trump. He can sit at the desk, but they want their old policy to continue exactly.


19 posted on 02/14/2017 9:53:51 AM PST by DesertRhino
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To: ColdOne

bookmark


20 posted on 02/14/2017 9:57:07 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you." President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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