Posted on 02/15/2017 5:13:01 PM PST by Starman417
Let us concede that short-lived National Security adviser and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Gen. Michael Flynn did a dumb thing when he misled Vice-President Pence on whether he discussed sanctions on Russia in a conversation with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak fefore President Trump was sworn in January 20.
Flynn may even had said some dumb things in a conversation he should have known was being recorded. But an incoming National Security adviser talking with a Russian counterpart a violation of the Logan Act which forbids private citizens from conducting what is essentially foreign policy with foreign governments. Flynn was clearly not a private citizen at the time. He was a member of an administration whose President, Donald Trump, has historically demanded loyalty and truthfulness from his subordinates. He hung Vice President Pence out to dry and gave the administration’s enemies ammunition and a scalp they had been looking for. For that his resignation was well-deserved..
Certainly Flynn had enemies among the CIA holdovers in the CIA, the State Department, and even the Justice Department. Currently the CIA looks like the culprit in the leak of a transcript of Flynn’s conversation. But here is the real crime that should be investigated. Intel agencies can monitor the phone calls of foreign governments, foreign officials, and foreign individuals. But they cannot monitor the phone conversations of Americans without probable cause and a court order. Whoever leaked the contents of Flynn’s conversation is the criminal, not Flynn.
President Trump has long been skeptical of the conclusions of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the intelligence community and rightly so. The CIA and the intelligence community don’t like Trump or Flynn very much. This the same James Clapper that once lied to Congress, saying that the NSA wasn’t conducting surveillance of the American people.
As U.S. News and World Report noted, his recent resignation didn’t assuage critics who believe James Clapper, like other Obama administration personnel, dodged a perjury bullet when he testified before Congress on the issue of NSA surveillance of American citizens:
Some lawmakers reacted to the long-expected resignation announcement from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday by wishing him an eventful retirement, featuring prosecution and possible prison time.Critics who say President Donald Trump has no right to disparage our good and faithful intelligence servants or to be skeptical of the intelligence they gather might be willing to accept “least untruthful” answers but others are not‘ :As Investor’s Business Daily editorialized in June 2013 after Clapper’s testimony:The passage of more than three years hasn’t cooled the insistence in certain quarters that Clapper face charges for an admittedly false statement to Congress in March 2013, when he responded, “No, sir" and "not wittingly” to a question about whether the National Security Agency was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans.
About three months after making that claim, documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the answer was untruthful and that the NSA was in fact collecting in bulk domestic call records, along with various internet communications.
To his critics, Clapper lied under oath, a crime that threatens effective oversight of the executive branch. In an apology letter to lawmakers, however, Clapper said he gave the “clearly erroneous” answer because he “simply didn’t think of” the call-record collection.
Clapper later told MSNBC he considered the question akin to asking, “When did you stop beating your wife?” and so gave the “least untruthful” answer.
,,, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper struggles to explain why he told Congress in March that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no,'" Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.Critics of hard-liner Flynn have shamefully accused him and President Trump of being soft on Vladimir Putin and Russia and cite Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador as proof. Congressional Democrats want a full investigation. Yet they had no problem with Bill Hillary Clinton brokering deals giving Russia and Putin 20 percent of our uranium supply to benefit Clinton Foundation donors, including Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra.Least untruthful? Lying to Congress and the American people is just that, except in Clapper's mind. And it seems to depend on the meaning of "collect," a reminder of President Bill Clinton's defense that charges of his lying depended on the meaning of the word "is."
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So, a pede links me here: http://human.globalincidentmap.com/
I see there was a ring busted in Ghana on Feb 13. Here is the screen shot.
So, I’m like... I wonder if the Clintons are in Volta Lake, Ghana.
OH THEY ARE! http://archive.is/OZkls
Everyone arguing publicly in Trump’s favor should turn the discussion around with this.
Starting with:
“How about we investigate the real crimes?”
“So Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, along with husband Bill, in exchange for donations, gave nuclear power Russia and Putin control of 20 percent of the world’s uranium supply”
....Investigate Hillary Uranium Gifts To Russia, Not Michael Flynn....
You got it!!!!
WAIT:
The Yemen terrorists were WAITING for our SEALS —WAITING.
They KNEW our guys were coming and a SEAL got killed.
Three Pakistani IT Brothers were reading our highest classified stuff for YEARS.
More:
One of them was doing that same work before the Extortion 17 shoot-down.
ARE THE STARS BEGINNING TO ALIGN FOR YOU, HERE...?
It’s not fire, but I see smoke BILLOWING.
The punishment for spying on the USA is LOSING ONE’S JOB..?!?!?!
Come on —they HUSHED IT UP.
The official story is Extortion 17 was downed by a lucky RPG hit:
Come on..!!
MANPADS, bro..!
And it was an AMBUSH.
Must investigate Obama - he had emissary go to Iran to tell mullahs change was coming!
Absolutely agree. Prosecute Hillary on everything she did.
I detest Democrats.....they are EVIL.
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