The media's reaction:
Posted on 05/08/2020 4:45:04 AM PDT by blam
President Obama was aware of the details of then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn's intercepted December 2016 phone calls with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to documents released Thursday as exhibits to the government's motion to dismiss the Flynn case.
Obama's unexpectedly intimate knowledge of the details of Flynn's calls, which the FBI acknowledged at the time were not criminal or even improper, raised eyebrows because of his own history with Flynn -- and because top FBI officials secretly discussed whether their goal was to "get [Flynn] fired" when they interviewed him in the White House on January 24, 2017.
Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was "not a fan," according to multiple officials. Obama had fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014; Obama cited insubordination, while Flynn asserted he was pushed out for his aggressive stance on combating lslamic extremism.
On January 5, 2017, Yates attended an Oval Office meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey, then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-CIA Director John Brennan, and then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, according to the newly declassified documents, including an FD-302 FBI witness report. They were discussing Russian election interference, along with national security adviser Susan Rice and other members of the national security council.
After the briefing, Obama asked Yates and Comey to "stay behind," and said he had "learned of the information about Flynn" and his conversation with Russia's ambassador about sanctions. Obama "specified that he did not want any additional information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the information."
A previous memo from Rice stated that Biden also stayed behind after the main briefing
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Of COURSE OBunghole was aware of it. The bastard most likely APPROVED it.
Horse Faced FBI whore
The Federal Bureau of Fabrication’s treatment of Flynn reminds me of these vignettes from history showing the need for justice to be fair, balanced and truthful: “What has this man done??”, Governor Pilate to the braying crowd seeking Jesus’ blood. “You lost the right to call yourself a judge the minute you knowingly convicted an innocent man”. Richard Widmark as the prosecutor in Judgment at Nuremberg.
“POTUS wants to know everything we’re doing”
Absolutely. And this Page text hardly ever is repeated. I think that it’s one of the most relevant pieces of evidence in existence (that we’re aware of to this point). Maybe it is THE most relevant, except maybe Priestap’s handwritten notes about Flynn.
I hope Grenell and company blow this up in OBunghole’s face.
It will be fun watching the Stumblebum stutter and whine about how “racist” and whatever such bullsh*t he and jhis media bone-inhalers will come up with.
He can’t teleprompter his way out of this.
The cabal is going to go kickin and screaming. In the meantime they’ll fight like cornered Rats.
President Trump or one of your advisors, I know you are here on FR. Please have the President address the nation on national TV with a multi-media presentation that nails every single one of these bastards. Then have AG Barr announce indictments, beginning with Obama and Clinton. They should be arrested during the national address, with live feeds of their arrests into the presentation. It’s a bit of technology to do so, but you can pull it off.
Repeat often and loudly “Obama’s Blue Dress!”
None Dare Call It Treason. Except 1.
I’m still not sure why this would even be considered big news. Wouldn’t anyone assume that Obama would have learned of this very early on during one of his daily intelligence briefings?
Does anybody else remember the media’s mockery of President Trump waaaaaay back when he said his phones had been tapped?
Her daughter Laura is a correspondent at CNN covering DOJ.
Sunlight is the Great Disinfectant!
The Light of TRUTH will destroy all the HATE and EVIL that are the Democrat Party.
This is why they are so desperate, why they have worked for four years to try to destroy President Trump. They MUST stop him!
Why? Because Trump holds the Light of TRUTH and will shine it on them and their HATE and EVIL.
This is what set them off:
The corrupt, the criminal, the HATE filled, the EVIL cannot withstand the Light of TRUTH.
This is what the attempts to destroy President Trump are all about.
Note tagline.
I would think the daily briefing is very high level. The article stated that Obama knew every detail suggesting that he was far more involved than just through a briefing.
btt
It was his idea. Wouldn’t be surprised if he is in the middle if the latest impeachment hoax.
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