Posted on 02/13/2018 10:15:49 AM PST by Starman417
Michael Flynn spoke with Russian Ambassador Kislyak on December 29, 2016.
You will remember that the conversation Michael Flynn had with Kislyak was leaked to WaPo last January 12 :
According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking. What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions? The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about “disputes” with the United States. Was its spirit violated? The Trump campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.A senior government official. In the obama administration. This was the beginning of the end for Flynn. At The Hill, it was argued that this leak was "illegal but utterly justified."
Admiral Mike Rogers said that releasing transcripts were harmful to national security. Catherine Herridge said that getting the transcript from the NSA had to come from very high up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMIoLAxt4f0
In February 2017 Intelligence officials said that Flynn had done nothing wrong
A current U.S. intelligence official tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that there is no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the transcripts of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, although the official noted that doesn't rule out the possibility of illegal actions.Today Byron York reports that in March 2017 James Comey briefed Congress and told them that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he had lied:The official also says that there are recordings as well as transcripts of the calls, and that the transcripts don't suggest Flynn was acting under orders in his conversations.
Flynn resigned late Monday, after allegations that he discussed U.S. sanctions on Russia with Kislyak and then misled Vice President Pence about the nature of those conversations. Flynn initially denied discussing sanctions at all, but in his resignation Flynn said he "inadvertently" gave Pence "incomplete information" about the conversations.
NPR's Phil Ewing previously reported that it is not in dispute that Flynn spoke with Kislyak in late December. "The issue is what he said," Phil wrote.
Depending on the content of the conversations, Flynn could have violated a law called the Logan Act, which bars a private individual from conducting foreign policy without the permission of the U.S. government. For instance, if Flynn told the ambassador the Trump administration would drop the sanctions, that would have been illegal.
The intelligence official who has personally seen the transcripts told Mary Louise they contained "no evidence" of criminal wrongdoing, although the official said it can't be definitively ruled out.
The official also said there was "absolutely nothing" in the transcripts that suggests Flynn was acting under instructions "or that the trail leads higher."
"The Jan. 24 interview potentially puts Flynn in legal jeopardy," the Washington Post reportedin February. "Lying to the FBI is a felony offense."And then, boomThere was also a lot of concern in Congress, at least among Republicans, about the leak of the wiretapped Flynn-Kislyak conversation. Such intelligence is classified at the highest level of secrecy, yet someone — Republicans suspected Obama appointees in the Justice Department and intelligence community — revealed it to the press.
So in March, lawmakers wanted Comey to tell them what was up. And what they heard from the director did not match what they were hearing in the media.
According to two sources familiar with the meetings, Comey told lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that Flynn had lied to them, or that any inaccuracies in his answers were intentional. As a result, some of those in attendance came away with the impression that Flynn would not be charged with a crime pertaining to the Jan. 24 interview.
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“aren’t those Obama portraits just something?”
I saw the comment on Michelle’s portrait, “it’s a poster for grey lives matter”.
“The Judge in the Flynn plea agreement was forced to recuse himself after his ruling accepting the Flynn plea bargain
He is a partisan Obama FISA judge who is suspected of approving much of the Trump FISA warrants, including the one that intercepted the Flynn conversation”
The judge should be forced to resign or be impeached if possible.
Oh noes! Not the dreaded 'boom'!
And Jessuh Jackson
Don’t forget domestic violence. Media is all about Trump favoring domestic violence today. These people are a parody.
Is that really the presidential portrait of Obama? I must admit I’ve been out of touch as I’ve been sitting on the beaches of Marco’s Island for the past week. Surely that cannot be an official presidential portrait of Obama?
302 was Hill emails ?
I’ve heard the no money response, I’ve also heard the deal was to get Mueller to not charge Flynn’s son for failure to register as a Foreign Agent.
Mueller wanted testimony against other players in the Trump administration. If the FBI information was withheld from Flynn, under the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine, everything that Flynn later testified to against anyone else should be inadmissible, including anything developed on the basis of the information Flynn provided. Legally, it should be the end of the investigation.
If Mueller leveraged the deal with Flynn based on getting Flynn’s testimony against others, and it was later shown that the FBI 302 was altered to substantiate the charge against Flynn, then someone HAS to go to jail, or the republic is at an end. If it was changed, and Mueller knew about it, he must got to jail as well.
Our republic depends on trusting the other party, and that is already close to an end. The democrats lied to their own people to boost Hillary over Bernie, are we now supposed to accept that they wouldn’t lie against conservatives?
What about legal fees?
Rush just revealed that a Judge ordered Mueller to release FBI info to Flynn’s lawye
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what is Rushs source for this?
Typical Clinton,he looks like a preening peacock.
This piece is funny. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/02/the-weak-in-portraits-obama-edition.php
Someone will put Jeffy right on that. He’s good at paperwork. Couple of weeks for a 3-4 page document autta do it.
It sounds like Flynn is going for a Bundy’s style win. The FBI has been railroading people for years.
...When Judge Contreras pulled out, Flynn’s case was reassigned to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.
We now know that one of Judge Sullivan’s first actions on the case was to file an order directing Mueller to provide Flynn with any evidence in the special counsel’s possession that is favorable to Flynn, whether on the issue of guilt or of sentencing.
Significantly, the order stresses that if Mueller has such evidence but believes it is not “material” and therefore that Flynn is not entitled to disclosure of it, Mueller must show the evidence to the court so that Judge Sullivan may decide whether to mandate its disclosure...
https://www.scribd.com/document/370672707/Flynn-Order
Yes it is.
Problem is Palestine is not a nation, never has been, never will be....
Logan rule doesn’t apply.....
In fact, there is no people group of Palestinians - they are Arabs in the area.
Like Hoosiers live in Indiana........
“didn’t Rush also say the judge who was on the bench for Flynn’s indictment recused himself”
Judge Rudolph Contreras - the same Obama appointed judge who issued the FISA warrants on the Trump campaign... I mean Carter Page.
“If it is determined that the FBI and/or the prosecutor’s office deliberately withheld exculpatory information from the defendant”
Shouldn’t that prosecutor be be sanctioned? Disbarred?
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