14 Feb 2017

They Got Michael Flynn

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Eli Lake chalks up a big one on the scoreboard for the Deep Government Left embedded inside the Intelligence Community working hand-in-hand with the Establishment Media. They got Flynn, he wonders aloud, does this prove that they will eventually also get Trump?

T]here are many unanswered questions about Trump’s and his administration’s ties to Russia.

But that’s all these allegations are at this point: unanswered questions. It’s possible that Flynn has more ties to Russia that he had kept from the public and his colleagues. It’s also possible that a group of national security bureaucrats and former Obama officials are selectively leaking highly sensitive law enforcement information to undermine the elected government.

Flynn was a fat target for the national security state. He has cultivated a reputation as a reformer and a fierce critic of the intelligence community leaders he once served with when he was the director the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama. Flynn was working to reform the intelligence-industrial complex, something that threatened the bureaucratic prerogatives of his rivals.

He was also a fat target for Democrats. Remember Flynn’s breakout national moment last summer was when he joined the crowd at the Republican National Convention from the dais calling for Hillary Clinton to be jailed.

In normal times, the idea that U.S. officials entrusted with our most sensitive secrets would selectively disclose them to undermine the White House would alarm those worried about creeping authoritarianism. Imagine if intercepts of a call between Obama’s incoming national security adviser and Iran’s foreign minister leaked to the press before the nuclear negotiations began? The howls of indignation would be deafening.

In the end, it was Trump’s decision to cut Flynn loose. In doing this he caved in to his political and bureaucratic opposition. Nunes told me Monday night that this will not end well. “First it’s Flynn, next it will be Kellyanne Conway, then it will be Steve Bannon, then it will be Reince Priebus,” he said. Put another way, Flynn is only the appetizer. Trump is the entree.

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GoneWithTheWind

Talking to the Russian ambassador was not illegal. Not sharing everything he said in that discussion with the VP was not illegal (stupid perhaps but not illegal). BUT releasing this national security top secret data about this event IS illegal. Whoever did it needs to be identified and brought to justice. It looks like a conspiracy by the Obama administration. I’m not sure, is there a word for a conspiracy to bring down the government? Is there a special word for a part of the government trying to bring down the government?

I think maybe we need to label this unknown leaker a Benedict Arnold or absence of allegiance, or disloyal to their oath. This is no whistle blower. The intent was clear and the end goal is to politically assassinate the president. This is a silent coup. This is treason.



Nori

Ben Rhodes. Treason.



pfdr

Time for a RICO investigation into OFA.



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