[marktwain]

“the CIA guys running this operation would have been talking to someone in the WH when the SHFT, someone who has not yet been named or questioned. Someone who sees his primary job as protecting obama”

I think it is difficult to play the “The Secretary Will Disavow All Knowledge” card with a U.S. Ambassador.

[silverleaf]

Under normal administrations, yes, but this is no normal adminstration

Nor, possibly, was this ambassador doing what ambassadors normally do

which is stay out of, at arms length from, or at least maintain plausible deniability, of covert CIA operations intended to end run Congress and other parties such as Russia

Once an ambassador becomes an active part of a military or CIA operation, all bets are off. He jeopardizes his diplomatic status and immunity as a “non combatant”..as the al Qaeda combat milita demonstrated

Note that the “we disavow all knowledge” card has already been played by Biden among others, including Hillary, along with the “some adult has to step up so I take full responsibility” card