Flynn...Russians..sanctions

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http://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/donald-trump-knew-about-mike-flynns-russia-call/news-story/993ec79b90ead241001788624d192e11

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4 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

DONALD Trump was fully briefed on the content of Michael Flynn’s call with Russia after it happened, according to Fox News.

The President heard the details of the controversial communications between his national security adviser and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the news outlet reported. Those calls are now at the centre of a national security scandal that cost General Flynn his job.

“Under repeated questioning during an investigation by the White House Counsel’s Office, General Flynn I’m told had a full recollection of what he talked about with the Russian Ambassador,” Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts reported.

Gen Flynn initially said he did not discuss sanctions, or didn’t fully remember the content of those conversations.

Interesting, we keep getting more accusations and speculation, yet I am still awaiting an answer to my question regarding the NYT article. 

 

 It does bring up a lot of questions though regarding who authorized the surveillance of a campaign?  Was the Obama DOJ using the FISA court for political purposes?

 

 

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FBI Director James B. Comey met with lawmakers from the Senate Intelligence Committee behind closed doors on Friday, amid an uproar over alleged contacts between members of President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials.

Committee members and Comey spent nearly three hours Friday afternoon in a secure room in the Senate basement used for classified briefings, known as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF).

Lawmakers tersely refused to comment upon exiting the meeting, declining even to confirm that Comey met with them.

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http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/320161-comey-meets-with-intel-senators-amidst-russia-uproar

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/15/trump-aide-reince-priebus-to-ethics-chief-be-careful/

 

interesting...

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Edited February 19, 2017 by eieio

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Two days before the Inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth President of the United States, Michael Flynn, a retired lieutenant general and former intelligence officer, sat down in a Washington restaurant. On the tablecloth, he placed a leather-bound folder and two phones, which flashed with text messages and incoming calls. A gaunt, stern-looking man with hooded eyes and a Roman nose, Flynn is sharp in both manner and language. He had been one of Trump’s earliest supporters, a vociferous booster on television, on Twitter, and, most memorably, from the stage of the Republican National Convention. Strident views and a penchant for conspiracy theories often embroiled him in controversy—in a hacked e-mail from last summer, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called him “right-wing nutty”—but Trump rewarded Flynn’s loyalty by making him his national-security adviser. Now, after months of unrelenting scrutiny, Flynn seemed to believe that he could find a measure of obscurity in the West Wing, steps away from Trump and the Oval Office. “I want to go back to having an out-of-sight role,” he told me.

That ambition proved illusory. Three weeks into his job, the Washington Post revealed that Flynn, while he was still a private citizen and Barack Obama was still President, had discussed American sanctions against Russia with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian Ambassador in Washington. The conversations were possibly illegal. Flynn and Kislyak’s communications, by phone and text, occurred on the same day the Obama Administration announced the expulsion of thirty-five Russian diplomats in retaliation for Russia’s efforts to swing the election in Trump’s favor. Flynn had previously denied talking about sanctions with the Ambassador. At the restaurant, he said that he didn’t think there was anything untoward about the call: “I’ve had a relationship with him since my days at the D.I.A.”—the Defense Intelligence Agency, which Flynn directed from 2012 to 2014. But, in a classic Washington spectacle of action followed by coverup followed by collapse, Flynn soon started backpedalling, saying, through a spokesman, that he “couldn’t be certain that the topic [of sanctions] never came up.”

 

 

He compounded his predicament by making the same denial to Vice-President Mike Pence, who repeated it on television. Flynn later apologized to Pence. But by then his transgressions had been made public. In a White House characterized by chaos and conflict—a Byzantine court led by a reality-television star, family members, and a circle of ideologues and loyalists—Flynn was finished.

The episode created countless concerns, about the President’s truthfulness, competence, temperament, and associations. How much did Trump know and when did he know it?

John McCain, a Republican and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that the fiasco was a “troubling indication of the dysfunction of the current national-security apparatus” and raised “further questions” about the Trump Administration’s intentions regarding Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos

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Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday. 

Former Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen “KT” McFarland stunned a crowd of Suffolk County Republicans on Thursday by saying: 

“Hillary Clinton is really worried about me, and is so worried, in fact, that she had helicopters flying over my house in Southampton today taking pictures,” according to a prominent GOP activist who was at the event. 

“She wasn’t joking, she was very, very serious, and she also claimed that Clinton’s people were taking pictures across the street from her house in Manhattan, taking pictures from an apartment across the street from her bedroom,” added the eyewitness, who is not involved in the Senate race. 

Suffolk County Republican Chairman Harry Withers, who hosted the reception in East Islip, confirmed McFarland’s paranoid statements. 

“Yes, she said that,” Withers told The Post.

McFarland spokesman William O’Reilly responded that the GOP hopeful was just kidding around with her far-fetched claims. 

“It was a joke, and people laughed,” O’Reilly insisted. 

But three witnesses who were present said nobody in the audience cracked a smile.

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http://nypost.com/2006/03/25/kooky-kts-spy-tale-hills-helicopters-watching-me-rival/

great story. No wonder serious peeps don't want to join in this fiasco!!!!

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https://www.google.co.jp/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=17&ved=0ahUKEwj3x5e1lpzSAhXJurwKHXj8BZcQt9IBCE0wEA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAS4aiA17YsM&usg=AFQjCNE1uOdQNLpHW-XKt9HnVbEDkXphqA&sig2=0_tNeBucvBDfvXt0sJwN6Q

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Trump is Howard Beale!!!!

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Whatever was said at the intel briefing was apparently quite bad. So bad in fact, there is rumour going around that major publications have something pretty explosive to share that will be coming out soon.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/19/politics/senate-intelligence-committee-russia-materials/

senate intel committee direct fed agencies to preserve all Russian records- immediately after meeting with Comey.

 

#papershreddersbusy!!!!

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html

 

Michael Cohen , Trump's personal lawyer under investigation, per Russian ties ...FBI leading investigation, aided by NSA, CIA 

( he owns 8 condos in TT, Manafort also has a place there).

Felix Slater , convicted felon, stock scammer and Russian mafia associate is a WH advisor...trump walked out of BBC interview on 2013 after being asked about Sater...

how far will the investigation continue? Do McConnell , Ryan and Chaffetz donors have ties to Russia?

 

NSA position yet to be filled.

 

interesting times!!!!!