2/14/17, "The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn," Eli Lake, Bloomberg View, opinion
"It's not even clear that Flynn lied. He says in his resignation letter that he did not deliberately leave out elements of his conversations with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when he recounted them to Vice President Mike Pence. The New York Times and Washington Post reported that the transcript of the phone call reviewed over the weekend by the White House could be read different ways. One White House official with knowledge of the conversations told me that the Russian ambassador raised the sanctions to Flynn and that Flynn responded that the Trump team would be taking office in a few weeks and would review Russia policy and sanctions. That's neither illegal nor improper....
A better explanation here is that Flynn was just thrown under the bus. His tenure as national security adviser, the briefest in U.S. history, was rocky from the start. When Flynn was attacked in the media for his ties to Russia, he was not allowed by the White House to defend himself. Over the weekend, he was instructed not to speak to the press when he was in the fight for his political life. His staff was not even allowed to review the transcripts of his call to the Russian ambassador....The fact that the intercepts of Flynn's conversations with Kislyak appear to have been widely distributed inside the government is a red flag.
Representative Devin Nunes, the Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told me Monday that he saw the leaks about Flynn's conversations with Kislyak as part of a pattern. "There does appear to be a well orchestrated effort to attack Flynn and others in the administration," he said. "From the leaking of phone calls between the president and foreign leaders to what appears to be high-level FISA Court information, to the leaking of American citizens being denied security clearances, it looks like a pattern....
But that's all these allegations are at this point: unanswered questions....
Flynn was a fat target for the national security state....Flynn was working to reform the intelligence-industrial complex, something that threatened the bureaucratic prerogatives of his rivals....
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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Comment: Just more evidence if needed that the American people are global slaves of the endless War Machine as we've been since World War I (The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming!). US voters are forced to pay for 'regime changes' all over the world, but are prevented from having 'regime change' in their own country by the Single Party US dictatorship, in particular by the "Republican" branch of the Single Party. American voters peacefully achieved 'regime change' in Nov. 2016. Our slave masters are taking it away from us.
Added: Parasite Republican Devin Nunes joined the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2011, became committee chairman in 2015.
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| Repulsive Rep. Devin Nunes |
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