Unless Flynn was collateral to another and more important investigation already underway - one for which he was not the target. Perhaps that’s why he was cleared so quickly.
We have no idea what was discussed, do we?
Basically, anyone who rings up the Russian ambassador’s personal phone...probably gets an investigation. That’s my bet. Course, the FBI won’t acknowledge that.
Perhaps we should get a volunteer from audience to make the call and see if the FBI visits their house?
He needs to proof-read what he writes [may the god's not strike us freepers dead for our hypocrisy]. MI6 is British foreign intelligence
Very good article and I hope Trump’s legal staff follows up on this.
Also, if there anybody who shod be abject to the Logan Act, it’s McCain. He’s been abroad shooting his mouth off, undercutting the Adminsitration’s foreign policy, and offering his own completely unauthorized policy instead.
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Well, this is NR, and so we should know that this was going off the rails. This isn't exactly Trump's view, which he stated so clearly in his presser.
Russia and the US are two very powerful nuclear armed countries. Armageddon is in no one's interest, and therefore it would be helpful if we could get along on things where it is in our mutual interest to get along.
And one of our big problems with Russia is the American penchant for sticking its nose in Russia's internal affairs or their well-settled sphere of influence. It's part of our busy-body approach to international affairs. It's in our blood, like going to the Puritan vicar and telling him that you saw a married couple in his parish having non-missionary position sex or something.
Oh, perhaps Flynn was conducting a sting for his CIC so they could release transcripts slightly variant from each other and so that they would be able to identify who the real “leaker” of intel was to the Washington Compost or wherever they leaked it...added cover by having him fired made them even more bold...now the big question is...NOW that Trump knows WHO you are will he frog march you into custody or use you later with this leverage agasint you. In the meantime General Flynn will probably be a close advisor the POTUS for which he needs no Senate approval.
Makes sense to me in a fake news world
Freegards
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I hope Jason Chaffetz surprises us with an effective investigation of the government’s conduct in this matter, and exposes the Obama plot behind it.
President Trump should declassify and release the pertinent parts of Flynn’s conversations in both recorded form and as “transcripts”. It’s not exactly a secret that the calls were recorded, and Amb. Kislyak presumably knows what he talked about.
Better yet, President Putin should publish the recordings of the same conversations made by the Russian side.
Bookmark.
God protect President Trump.
Why is Comey still there?
The guidelines...pdf format...https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3283349/Raw-12333-surveillance-sharing-guidelines.pdf
I doubt Flynn gave consent.
Trump should have put Flynn and Pence in a room to iron out differences. A strong admonishment (in private) of Flynn would have sufficed. Firing Flynn a big mistake, it gave the MSM blood in the water.
Part of the “barium meal”.
This wasn’t FBI. This was Obama’s FBI, the ones who couldn’t find anything wrong with Clinton.
Why isn’t Flynn taking legal action against the agency? He was then and is now a private citizen, not a government official.
thank you for posting this must read article.
The FBI has utterly discredited itself over the past six months.
National security officials using intel they collect to carry out corrupt political hits?
But McCarthy assured us that could never happen. When those of us concerned, for example, about the NSA collecting the telephone calls and emails of the entire American citizenry, suggested that maybe political hacks in the Obama administration could use such data to compromise a Chief Justice or a Senator or anyone else, McCarthy assured us these were all patriotic professionals who were under the scrutiny of congressional oversight committees and that could never happen.
And he defended the unconstitutional bulk collection of the entire American citizenry’s personal data and communications.
Hmmm, could it be McCarthy was wrong and had drunk the Neocon kool-aid?