Posted on 02/14/2017 4:59:45 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Monday evening raises troubling questions about the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the intelligence services.
Flynn ostensibly resigned because he provided Vice President Mike Pence with “incomplete information” about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador, which turned out to include a discussion of recent sanctions, contrary to his earlier denials. Trust is crucial; the resignation was warranted.
That said, the sanctions were largely bogus, and were applied not just to punish Russia for spying on the U.S. (both countries clearly spy on each other), but to substantiate the Democratic Party’s sore-loser conspiracy theory that Russia was responsible for electing Donald Trump.
There is no concrete evidence to support that theory, and there is no evidence (yet) that Flynn did anything but discuss sanctions in the most general terms. He did not break the Logan Act, nor any other law, apparently.
Whether Flynn deliberately concealed the contents of his conversation from Vice President Pence, or merely forgot what had been said, he was “caught” because the Department of Justice had been eavesdropping on the conversation. And one of the officials responsible for ordering the eavesdropping was none other than Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who forced President Trump to fire her when she defied her duty to enforce his executive order on immigration, however, controversial.
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Troll!!! You’ve been saying this on every thread. Just which branch of our evil turncoat intelligence agencies do you work for?
A high ranking Soviet defector, who went by the pen name of “Viktor Suvorov”, worked as an officer in the Soviet military, military intelligence (the GRU), the KGB, etc. And he has written several very interesting books on these subjects.
One of his books, Inside Soviet Military Intelligence, had a very illuminating bit on how the GRU dealt with traitors and leakers. This serves to put some perspective on how seriously the US intelligence services should treat traitors and leakers when discovered in their ranks. Seriously, if not using a similar, murderous technique.
New recruits to the GRU were individually shown a movie. It showed an unidentified individual strapped to a gurney, with a hood over his head. Two masked individuals pushed the gurney into a very large and very hot blast furnace. And that was it.
Again, while no US intelligence agency would do such a thing, maybe, it does illustrate the current need to locate this leaker. A reasonable penalty here would be for them to spend 20 or 30 years in a maximum security federal prison, like the other traitors currently residing there.
What are you talking about? What makes you think that? Please enlighten me.
Congress granted these powers to the NSA and to our executive authorities. Being upset will not change the fact that as a American, you don't have protections calling someone overseas.
Monitoring the communications of the Russian ambassador in Washington is standard practice; the Kremlim does the same thing to our guy in Moscow.
But here’s my question, and I defer to FReepers who are experienced in national security law. When a U.S. citizen is identified through collection against a foreign target, I thought the collection had to stop until law enforcement can obtain a warrant from a federal judge. If so, where’s the warrant? Apparently, Flynn was recorded multiple times in conversations with the Russian ambassador, so there should be a paper trail. Jeff Sessions needs to release that ASAP, so the American people can see who authorized the surveillance, and how many Trump appointees were targeted.
Having said that, I am quite familiar with various IC “tricks” that can be used to circumvent the law, and if such measures were used, they should be exposed as well. Ditto for a complete and unadulterated readout of the conversations between Flynn and the Russian diplomat. Devin Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said just yesterday that the information he’s seen indicates that Flynn never promised any sanctions relief.
I was just thinking about the time when Susan Rice lied openly and repeatedly about Benghazi and was forced to resign. Oh wait, that never happened.
Flynn’s best revenge (after weathering this storm) is to move to a deeply red state and run for Congress, get elected and spend the next 20 years (or so) giving his enemies hell on Capitol Hill.
The only way to fight the IC and State is to infiltrate them, collect info and set them up. The IC and Sate has to think that anyone they talk to could be a spy working for Trump
“You don’t lie to him, you don’t steal from him, and you don’t embarrass him.”
OR his vice president.
Trumps detractors are trying to nibble his supporters to death like ducks.
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