That you equate the Secretary of State ignoring over 600 requests for more security at an outpost involved in running arms to Syrian rebels (ISIS, Al Qaeda) in a terrorist country that ended in the DEATHS of 4 Americans to a newly-appointed NSA director talking to a foreign colleague shows the depth of your lunacy.
On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 12:51:42 PM UTC-5, ImStillMags Mags wrote: > > > > http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/ar-AAmU2uq?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=bdtdhp > > *Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to > Russian blackmail, officials say* > [image: Vice President Pence greets national security adviser Michael > Flynn before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Trump arrived > for their joint news conference at the White House on Feb. 10.] > © Joshua Roberts/Reuters Vice President Pence greets national security > adviser Michael Flynn before Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and > President Trump arrived for their joint news conference at the White House > on Feb. 10. > > The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month > that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials > about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the > United States, and warned that the national security adviser was > potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. > officials said. > > The message, delivered by Sally Q. Yates and a senior career national > security official to the White House counsel, was prompted by concerns that > Flynn, when asked about his calls and texts with the Russian diplomat, had > told Vice President-elect Mike Pence and others that he had not discussed > the Obama administration sanctions on Russia for its interference in the > 2016 election, the officials said. It is unclear what the White House > counsel, Donald McGahn, did with the information. > > In the waning days of the Obama administration, James R. Clapper Jr., who > was the director of national intelligence, and John Brennan, the CIA > director at the time, shared Yates’s concerns and concurred with her > recommendation to inform the Trump White House. They feared that “Flynn had > put himself in a compromising position” and thought that Pence had a right > to know that he had been misled, according to one of the officials, who, > like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence > matters. > > A senior Trump administration official said that the White House was aware > of the matter, adding that “we’ve been working on this for weeks.” > > The current and former officials said that although they believed that > Pence was misled about the contents of Flynn’s communications with the > Russian ambassador, they couldn’t rule out that Flynn was acting with the > knowledge of others in the transition. > > The FBI, Yates, Clapper and Brennan declined to comment on the matter. The > White House said in a statement Monday that Trump was “evaluating the > situation” regarding Flynn. > > In a Feb. 8 interview with The Washington Post, Flynn categorically denied > discussing sanctions with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, repeating > public assertions made in January by top Trump officials. One day after the > interview, Flynn revised his account, telling The Post through a spokesman > that he “couldn’t be certain that the topic never came up.” > > Two officials said a main topic of the relevant call was the sanctions. > Officials also said there was no evidence that Russia had attempted to > exploit the discrepancy between public statements by Trump officials and > what Flynn had discussed. > > Flynn told The Post earlier this month that he first met Kislyak in 2013, > when Flynn was director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and made a trip > to Moscow. > > U.S. intelligence reports during the 2016 presidential campaign showed > that Kislyak was in touch with Flynn, officials said. Communications > between the two continued after Trump’s victory on Nov. 8, according to > officials with access to intelligence reports on the matter. > > Kislyak, in a brief interview with The Post, confirmed having contacts > with Flynn before and after the election, but he declined to say what was > discussed. > > For Yates and other officials, concerns about the communications peaked in > the days after the Obama administration on Dec. 29 announced measures to > punish Russia for what it said was the Kremlin’s interference in the > election to help Trump. > > After the sanctions were rolled out, the Obama administration braced > itself for the Russian retaliation. To the surprise of many U.S. officials, > Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Dec. 30 that there would be > no response. Trump praised the decision on Twitter. > > Intelligence analysts began to search for clues that could help explain > Putin’s move. The search turned up Kislyak’s communications, which the FBI > routinely monitors, and the phone call in question with Flynn, a retired > Army lieutenant general with years of intelligence experience > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nearly-the-entire-national-security-establishment-has-rejected-trumpexcept-for-this-man/2016/08/15/d5072d96-5e4b-11e6-8e45-477372e89d78_story.html?utm_term=.44684425486c> > . > > From that call and subsequent intercepts, FBI agents wrote a secret report > summarizing Flynn’s discussions with Kislyak. > > Yates, then the deputy attorney general, considered Flynn’s comments in > the intercepted call to be “highly significant” and “potentially illegal,” > according to an official familiar with her thinking. > > Yates and other intelligence officials suspected that Flynn could be in > violation of an obscure U.S. statute known as the Logan Act, which bars > U.S. citizens from interfering in diplomatic disputes with another country. > > At the same time, Yates and other law enforcement officials knew there was > little chance of bringing against Flynn a case related to the Logan Act, a > statute that has never been used in a prosecution. In addition to the legal > and political hurdles, Yates and other officials were aware of an FBI > investigation looking at possible contacts between Trump associates and > Russia, which now included the Flynn-Kislyak communications. > > Word of the calls leaked out on Jan. 12 in an op-ed by Post columnist > David Ignatius > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking/2017/01/12/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.8a62eb6a8561>. > > “What did Flynn say, and did it undercut U.S. sanctions?” Ignatius wrote, > citing the Logan Act. > > The next day, a Trump transition official told The Post, “I can tell you > that during his call, sanctions were not discussed whatsoever.” > > White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in a conference call with > reporters on Jan. 13, said that the conversation between Flynn and Kislyak > had “centered on the logistics” of a post-inauguration call between Trump > and Putin. “That was it, plain and simple,” Spicer added. > > On Jan. 15, Pence was asked about the phone call during an appearance on > CBS’s “Face the Nation.” > <http://www.cbsnews.com/news/face-the-nation-transcript-january-15-2017-pence-manchin-gingrich/> > Citing > a conversation he had with Flynn, Pence said the incoming national security > adviser and Kislyak “did not discuss anything having to do with the United > States’ decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against Russia.” > > Before the Pence statement on Jan. 15, top Justice Department and > intelligence officials had discussed whether the incoming Trump White House > should be notified about the contents of the Flynn-Kislyak communications. > > Pence’s statement on CBS made the issue more urgent, current and former > officials said, because U.S. intelligence agencies had reason to believe > that Russia was aware that Flynn and Kislyak had discussed sanctions in > their December call, contrary to public statements. > > The internal debate over how to handle the intelligence on Flynn and > Kislyak came to a head on Jan. 19, Obama’s last full day in office. > > Yates, Clapper and Brennan argued for briefing the incoming administration > so the new president could decide how to deal with the matter. The > officials discussed options, including telling Pence, the incoming White > House counsel, the incoming chief of staff or Trump himself. > > FBI Director James B. Comey initially opposed notification, citing > concerns that it could complicate the agency’s investigation. > > Clapper and Brennan left their positions when Trump was sworn in, but > Yates stayed on as acting attorney general until Jan. 30, when Trump > fired her > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trump-fires-acting-attorney-general-sally-yates/2017/01/30/8a898d96-e76b-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_video.html> > for > refusing to defend his executive order temporarily barring refugees and > people from seven majority-Muslim countries — an action that had been > challenged in court. > > A turning point came after Jan. 23, when Spicer, in his first official > press briefing, again was asked about Flynn’s communications with Kislyak. > Spicer said that he had talked to Flynn about the issue “again last night.” > There was just “one call,” Spicer said. And it covered four subjects: a > plane crash that claimed the lives of a Russian military choir; Christmas > greetings; Russian-led talks over the Syrian civil war; and the logistics > of setting up a call between Putin and Trump. Spicer said that was the > extent of the conversation. > > Yates again raised the issue with Comey, who now backed away from his > opposition to informing the White House. Yates and the senior career > national security official spoke to McGahn, the White House counsel, who > didn’t respond to a request for comment. > > Trump has declined to publicly back his national security adviser since > the news broke. > > On Monday afternoon, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said > Trump had “full confidence” in Flynn. Minutes later, however, Spicer > delivered a contradictory statement to reporters. > > “The president is evaluating the situation,” Spicer’s statement read. > “He’s speaking to Vice President Pence relative to the conversation the > vice president had with Gen. Flynn and also speaking to various other > people about what he considers the single most important subject there is: > Our national security.” > > On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 9:40:27 AM UTC-8, Perplexed wrote: >> >> >> Nobody cares except for you retarded Trump-hating losers. Sorry, but >> that's the simple truth. >> >> That you equate the Secretary of State ignoring over 600 requests for >> more security at an outpost involved in running arms to Syrian rebels >> (ISIS, Al Qaeda) in a terrorist country that ended in the DEATHS of 4 >> Americans to a newly-appointed NSA director talking to a foreign colleague >> shows the depth of your lunacy. >> >> On Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 12:17:41 PM UTC-5, ImStillMags Mags >> wrote: >>> >>> The GOP found the time to investigate Benghazi for two years—longer than >>> enquiry into the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President >>> Kennedy, Iran-Contra and Watergate—but can’t spare one moment to >>> investigate this. The American people should rip this Congress to pieces. >>> >>> >>> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jason-chaffetz-says-house-oversight-committee-wont-investigate-flynn >>> >> -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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