Michael Flynn Resigns Over Contacts With Russia

[Dr. Evil]

Michael Flynn Resigns Over Contacts With Russia

I guess the liability of this mess became more than the up side of having him. Flynn shot himself in the foot so to speak. Too bad.

 

[Greywolf224]

Not good!+

 

[Dr. Evil]

Retired General Keith Kellogg named acting national security adviser.

 

[Greywolf224]

Hell, that was quick! Thinking he was asked to step down.

 

[Frankly]

Who knows what the real story is besides a small handful of people around Trump?

I wish Trump told the media and cowards to pound sand, giving in to them will only encourage more. He's got to act fast before they do too much more of this BS.

 

[Defilade]

I'm sure the Media is going to have a field day with this.

 

[Phazer]

In the scheme of what this administration still needs to do, this is a tempest in a teapot.

 

[Koz]

Obama got an 8 year free pass from the MSM and Trump is getting a baptism by fire. The media would have never stood for Flynn staying (unlike Holder, Clapper....). Best to cut his loses and move on.

 

[Phazer]

One down...more to come.

This administration is taking serious focused fire from the Left. If the administration doesn't wake up fast, seal leaks, and take their message to the people, they will be finished before they ever start.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Look at all of the crap during Obummer's reign. IRS, Veterans administration, Iran deal, etc.. Crickets from the Dems. Now, this with Flynn and the sky is falling. Hypocritical pieces of crap.

 

[reinhardt]

He was right to resign as it appears he "fibbed" about his conversation with the Russian. No way could he ever be trusted again. I hear that betrayus Petraeous is in the running for Flynns job. Another liar who had an affair with his biographer. WTF is wrong with Trump?

 

[ManrisFrack]

Honestly, I think he may have done the best thing for the country - even though it cost him his position. Obama was being uncharacteristically aggressive toward Russia at the end. And also uncharacteristically, Russia didn't reciprocate. If Flynn's conversation helped prevent ratcheting up of tensions between the US and Russia, good for him and the country owes him. Remember Obama's hot mic quote: “This is my last election … After my election I have more flexibility.”

 

[Phauxtoe]

Remember one thing!
Flynn Broke the law Under Obama!!

its an Obama admin scandal!

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

One down...more to come.

This administration is taking serious focused fire from the Left. If the administration doesn't wake up fast, seal leaks, and take their message to the people, they will be finished before they ever start.

It's all part of their plan to discredit them. IMO they are going to keep pushing to have him impeached or so hemmed in no one will support him.

Its patheric.

 

[livingston]

Michael Flynn Resigns…

All I ever needed to know about this entire Michael Flynn Rubber Tire is abundantly evident in the following CNN paragraph(s):

CNN – The Justice Department warned the Trump administration last month that Michael Flynn misled administration officials regarding his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States and was potentially vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians, a person familiar with the matter told CNN

[…] The message was delivered by then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. Other top intelligence officials, including James Clapper and John Brennan, were in agreement the White House should be alerted about the concerns.

Which also explains why The Washington Post was the originating source of the ‘controversy’/’fiasco’. As previously stated numerous times, The Washington Post is the official leak-outlet for the political arm of the CIA. And the most politicized of all agents ever inside the CIA was John Brennan – a black hat extraordinaire.

So, swamp reviewers can begin to see how this Rubber Tire was constructed.
Michael Flynn Resigns…

 

[Greywolf224]

He was right to resign as it appears he "fibbed" about his conversation with the Russian. No way could he ever be trusted again. I hear that betrayus Petraeous is in the running for Flynns job. Another liar who had an affair with his biographer. WTF is wrong with Trump?

As much as I hate to agree...but I agree with you on all counts here. Specifically with...

WTF is wrong with Trump?

He is leaving himself wide open for ridicule.

 

[Robin]

I didn't particularly trust him anyway.
Robin

 

[livingston]

The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn
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.

There is another component to this story as well -- as Trump himself just tweeted. It's very rare that reporters are ever told about government-monitored communications of U.S. citizens, let alone senior U.S. officials. The last story like this to hit Washington was in 2009 when Jeff Stein, then of CQ, reported on intercepted phone calls between a senior Aipac lobbyist and Jane Harman, who at the time was a Democratic member of Congress.

Normally intercepts of U.S. officials and citizens are some of the most tightly held government secrets. This is for good reason. Selectively disclosing details of private conversations monitored by the FBI or NSA gives the permanent state the power to destroy reputations from the cloak of anonymity. This is what police states do.

In the past it was considered scandalous for senior U.S. officials to even request the identities of U.S. officials incidentally monitored by the government (normally they are redacted from intelligence reports). John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations was derailed in 2006 after the NSA confirmed he had made 10 such requests when he was Undersecretary of State for Arms Control in George W. Bush's first term. The fact that the intercepts of Flynn's conversations with Kislyak appear to have been widely distributed inside the government is a red flag.

The Political Assassination of Michael Flynn

 

[Robin]

So who leaked all this stuff, NSA(?), we now have a shadow government.
Robin

 

[Phazer]

The entrenched establishment (yes, including Republicans), the Democrats, and the career bureaucratic machine are all conspiring against the Trump administration.

The establishment believes that presidents are transient, but the establishment is forever.

Trump MUST start taking his case right to the people. He needs to go over the head of congress and around the press to do so.

 

[Robin]

And we need to stay the course! don't let these turncoat globalists get to you, the collective you!!!!
Robin

 

[livingston]

CIA broke the law to take out its critic General Flynn
Make no mistake: we have just witnessed an operation by members of the CIA to take out a high official of our own government. An agency widely believed to have brought down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same dark arts in domestic American politics. Almost certainly, its new head, Mike Pompeo, was not consulted.

Senator Chuck Schumer, of all people, laid out on January 2 what was going to happen to the Trump administration if it dared take on the deep state – the permanent bureaucracy that has contempt for the will of the voters and feels entitled to run the government for its own benefit:

New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump is "being really dumb" by taking on the intelligence community and its assessments on Russia's cyber activities.

"Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

"So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this."

Or, as the old rueful saying has it, "you've got to go along to get along." This means that we the people had better acknowledge that the bureaucrats have turned into our masters, and the old expression "public servant" is as ironic as anything Orwell came up with. Schumer knows this and likes it, because the deep state wants a bigger, more powerful government, just as he does.

Note that the law was broken by whoever leaked the transcripts to the media. Not only is the crime underlying the "scandal" being ignored, but the criminals are being hailed. On Morning Joe's first hour today, the host, a former congressman (i.e., a lawmaker) himself, called the leakers "heroes."

This interference in domestic politics by the CIA should be regarded as a major threat to our democracy, but of course our Trump-hating domestic media are reveling in a major point scored against the new president.



Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/02/cia_broke_the_law_to_take_out_its_critic_general_flynn.html#ixzz4YhUpzSbr
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[Robin]

Shadow government!
Robin

 

[Mosinitis]

Kudos to Russia for leading the fight against the genocide of Christians in the Middle East and rise of anti-Semitic violence in Europe. War mongering establishment in this country led by the democrats is on the wrong side of history.

 

[tirwin1]

Bill Kristol, a supposedly conservative writer for the weekly standard tweeted the following:

"Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."

Think about that for a moment. And to think that a-hole considers himself a conservative.

 

[Frankly]

Trump should ban the news media from the White House and start shooting assholes. Release his press statements through Brietbart and local media, bypass all the MSM.

Kill 100 leading "journalists", pundits, legislators and assholes and the rest will fall in line. If they riot mow them down. Problem solved in a couple of weeks.

 

[Mosinitis]

Bill Kristol, a supposedly conservative writer for the weekly standard tweeted the following:

"Obviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."

Think about that for a moment. And to think that a-hole considers himself a conservative.

Bill Kristol is a shill, who plays a conservative in the mainstream media.

 

[livingston]

Shadow government!
Robin

The Deep State

Since the Trump inauguration, I've been reading references to something called The Deep State. I had a hunch, but I googled it anyway, and learned the definition.
State within a state is a political situation in a country when an internal organ ("deep state"), such as the armed forces and civilian authorities (intelligence agencies, police, administrative agencies and branches of governmental bureaucracy), does not respond to the civilian political leadership. Although the state within the state can be conspiratorial in nature, the Deep State can also take the form of entrenched unelected career civil servants acting in a non-conspiratorial manner, to further their own interests (e.g. job security, enhanced power and authority, pursuit of ideological goals and objectives, and the general growth of their agency) and in opposition to the policies of elected officials, by obstructing, resisting and subverting the policies and directives of elected officials.
PawPaw's House: The Deep State

 

[stuck in ny]

The Deep State

Since the Trump inauguration, I've been reading references to something called The Deep State. I had a hunch, but I googled it anyway, and learned the definition.
State within a state is a political situation in a country when an internal organ ("deep state"), such as the armed forces and civilian authorities (intelligence agencies, police, administrative agencies and branches of governmental bureaucracy), does not respond to the civilian political leadership. Although the state within the state can be conspiratorial in nature, the Deep State can also take the form of entrenched unelected career civil servants acting in a non-conspiratorial manner, to further their own interests (e.g. job security, enhanced power and authority, pursuit of ideological goals and objectives, and the general growth of their agency) and in opposition to the policies of elected officials, by obstructing, resisting and subverting the policies and directives of elected officials.
PawPaw's House: The Deep State

Yeh, Russia's evil, but the Saudis and (formerly) the Taliban are good. You can't even begin to describe the hypocrasy of these statist types. Remember the P- Riot whores in the moscow cathedral? If they tried that in the Sharia states they would be dead or worse.
Of course the "feminists" are busy decrying Russia while people are being raped and murdered all over the rest of the East.

 

[Robin]

Krystol has been a left wing mole for years, phony traitorous dick that would have been exposed years ago if there was any honesty in media.
Robin