Posted on 02/15/2017 8:07:14 PM PST by Kaslin
The fallout from the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is not over. We have Russia, leaks, and palace intrigue about former Obama administration officials laying the foundation to topple Flynn, who was knows for being staunchly opposed to the Iran nuclear deal. Guy wrote a post about the allegations. Frankly, Flynn misled the vice president, which alone is an act that warrants him being shown the door. Multiple writers, namely Damon Linker at The Week and Eli Lake at Bloomberg have noted another sinister angle to this story, which is the number of leaks of highly sensitive information coming from this administration. It appears as if intelligence operatives are willingly leaking intercepted phone calls with Trump officials (Flynn) to hamstring the administration from governing. Linker is no fan of Flynn, but added that dissatisfaction with a governing administration is handled through things called elections. It is not the job of the America’s spies to sabotage governance. Lake added that this could be just the beginning—and that more heads could roll (Conway, Bannon, maybe even the president himself.)
Former CIA analyst and U.S. Army Reserve Lt. Col Tony Schaffer was pretty straightforward in his Fox Business appearance today, where he said that Obama officials were definitely behind the leaks—and even named a few of them (via Free Beacon):
"Risk and Reward" host Deirdre Bolton asked Shaffer whether he thought leaks from the Obama administration were "the problem."
"Absolutely," Shaffer answered, saying the Obama administration was "directly involved" with the leak.
Shaffer said the blame lay "squarely at the feet of" the former CIA director John Brennan, former director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper, and former deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes.
Schaffer added that Flynn was a smart guy and probably didn’t discuss the area about Russian sanctions in the manner that’s been portrayed by the Left because he knew those calls would be analyzed and reviewed somewhere down the road. He added that what Flynn said was probably no different than when President Obama said told then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would have more flexibility once the 2012 election was over.
Schaffer noted that what Flynn said—when he called these various foreign officials—probably went along the lines of you’re going to deal with me, these are the issues on the table, and we might revisit them in the future. I agree that’s not necessarily illegal, but misleading the vice president by offering incomplete accounts of the conversations is an offense that could lead to one’s dismissal.
This isn’t over.
Sounds like insurrection.
I believe this.
It sounds like we need to sweat some ladies and gentlemen under some hot lights and start breaking bones until they give up their associates
I smell a lot of “Fifth Amendments” coming from Obama’s “intelligence community” boys in the near future.
I’m shocked....shocked I tell you.
Time for Jack Bauer.
I smell a lot of “Fifth Amendments” coming from Obama’s “intelligence community” boys in the near future.
Forget Congress , take them to Jordan for questioning
“Time for Jack Bauer.”
I’m halfway thru Season 2 with Amazon Prime.
And, Jack’s pretty busy right now.
I remember the papers in Dallas in 63 calling JFK a traitor but this is 24/7 every talking head, all day and night. I think the president needs to get to a secure location post haste
Forget Congress , take them to Jordan for questioning
How about sending some of the leftover Muslim Brotherhood moles to Israel for questioning?
Flynn worked for Trump, not Pence
I thought “ Race Bannons “ role in the administration was working with congress to,get obamacare repealed and investigating vote fraud
Based on some of the neocon crap Pence has spouted about Russia , I don’t trust him
Maybe Flynn didn’t trust him either
Trump had to choose
Hope he chose wisely
Anyone surprised the crypto-Muslim and Muslim Brotherhood agent Brennan is involved?
I’ll wait till the book comes out. There’s so much BS piling up its hard to say exactly what happened.
I don't know how he's going to do it--but I believe he will get these ass-clowns and make them pay for it.
Hang them all in the public square.
Pence and Flynn both work for Trump. Flynn lying to Pence, then Pence repeating the lie on TV makes Trump look bad. Flynn should have known better, but he is a Democrat...
LOL. But great. ;)
Need to have some high profile prosecutions leading to jail time
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