Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail - Polidicks

[t]https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_1484w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2017/02/14/National-Security/Images/2017-02-13T232217Z_228170490_HT1ED2D1P9W3H_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-FLYNN-0696.jpg?uuid=Z_ltMPJJEeaNciY0cL8EAQ[/t] [quote] 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. [/quote] [url="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html"]The Washington Post[/url]

I smell a coverup. What matters is who was and who wasn't implicated.

oh I posted this link in the other thread but didn't think it was worth it's own thread. It's alarming how many people in trump's cabinet are there not because they are qualified but because they're perceived to be loyal.

whats encouraging is the trumpettes in my life have taken pause for once as their demigog has faltered.

[QUOTE=Sableye;51821257]whats encouraging is the trumpettes in my life have taken pause for once as their demigog has faltered.[/QUOTE] if you can't spell demagogue you probably don't know what it means and probably shouldn't use such a big word ;)

[QUOTE=cccritical;51821732]if you can't spell demagogue you probably don't know what it means and probably shouldn't use such a big word ;)[/QUOTE] How does that imply he doesn't know what it means?!? He used it correctly.

[QUOTE=cccritical;51821732]if you can't spell demagogue you probably don't know what it means and probably shouldn't use such a big word ;)[/QUOTE] So instead of presenting an argument to counter the point (which you clearly understood) you decide to shit on somebody for their spelling and imply they don't know the use of a word they very clearly used appropriately? Yeah, wow, you [I]sure[/I] showed him.