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The Rachel Maddow Show 12/1/17 Why did Trump ignore repeated warnings Flynn was compromised? Rachel Maddow looks at the warnings Donald Trump received about Mike Flynn and the inexplicable way Trump held Flynn in favor even after he left office. Duration: 19:36
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Saturday, December 2nd 2017 at 9:28AM
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The question that should be asked, but Rachel will not, is why Flynn was unmasked.
Saturday, December 2nd 2017 at 12:18PM
Steve Williams
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That is no question Steve. What are you trying to say?
Saturday, December 2nd 2017 at 6:59PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Flynn wouldn't have lied if he hadn't been questioned. He wouldn't have been questioned if he hadn't been unmasked.
Saturday, December 2nd 2017 at 8:00PM
Steve Williams
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I'd like to know why former national security adviser Susan Rice unmasked General Flynn.
Saturday, December 2nd 2017 at 8:11PM
Steve Williams
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I' am sure Steve that you remember that their was some controversy over that publishing the illegally leaked classified information about former national-security adviser Michael Flynn’s communications with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, the New York Times informs us that “Obama advisers” and “Obama officials” were up to their eyeballs in the investigation: Obama advisers heard separately from the F.B.I. about Mr. Flynn’s conversation with Mr. Kislyak, whose calls were routinely monitored by American intelligence agencies that track Russian diplomats. The Obama advisers grew suspicious that perhaps there had been a secret deal between the incoming team and Moscow, which could violate the rarely enforced, two-century-old Logan Act barring private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers in disputes with the United States.
To read the full story, here is a link to that April 4, 2017 12:08 PM story Susan Rice’s White House Unmasking: A Watergate-style Scandal: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/4464...
Sunday, December 3rd 2017 at 9:49AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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WHY? One thought of mind is that Trump knew that he wanted Russian help to win, at all cost.
Sunday, December 3rd 2017 at 10:30AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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That seems to be a popular thought.
Sunday, December 3rd 2017 at 6:31PM
Steve Williams
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And he needed Mike's to help him get that help from the Russian's, then mike got busted by the press and M ike a liability instead of a asset to Trump.
Sunday, December 3rd 2017 at 7:58PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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Connect the dots Ron...
Sunday, December 3rd 2017 at 8:51PM
Steve Williams
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Starting in the summer of 2016 and intensifying in the transition period, the Logan Act, while mostly unknown to the general public, became a hot topic of conversation among some Democrats. A number of lawmakers, former officials, and commentators called on the Obama administration to investigate the Trump team for a possible Logan Act violations — and to do it while Democrats still controlled the executive branch.
At the same time, inside the Obama Justice Department, it appears the Logan Act became a paramount concern among some key officials in the critical weeks of December 2016 and January 2017. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates has told Congress that the Logan Act was the first reason she intervened in the Flynn case — the reason FBI agents were sent to the White House to interview Flynn in the Trump administration's early days. It was that interview, held on Jan. 24, 2017, that ultimately led to Flynn's guilty plea.
Monday, December 4th 2017 at 7:18PM
Steve Williams
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U.S. intelligence agencies recorded the calls; Kislyak was the subject of American monitoring, so a wiretap on him on these occasions picked up Flynn, too. It appears Obama administration officials immediately saw the Flynn-Kislyak conversations as a possible Logan Act violation. They knew, of course, that given the history of the law, a Logan Act prosecution was a virtual impossibility. They knew that many foreign policy experts would see such contacts between an incoming administration and a foreign power as an acceptable and normal course of business in a presidential transition. Nevertheless, approaching the Flynn-Kislyak talks in the context of a criminal violation — the Logan Act — gave the Obama team a pretense to target Flynn, and thus the new Trump administration.
A critical moment came two weeks later, on Jan. 12, 2017, when the Washington Post's David Ignatius reported the Flynn-Kislyak calls. Ignatius said his source was a "senior U.S. government official." "What did Flynn say, and did it undercut the U.S. sanctions?" Ignatius asked. "The Logan Act (though never enforced) bars U.S. citizens from correspondence intending to influence a foreign government about 'disputes' with the United States."
It was a stunning leak; the existence and content of U.S. spy intercepts are highly, highly classified. But the Obama administration let the information out.
Monday, December 4th 2017 at 7:23PM
Steve Williams
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In its version of the story, the New York Times reported that "Obama advisers" were concerned about the Flynn-Kislyak calls. "The Obama advisers grew suspicious that there had been a secret deal between the incoming [Trump] team and Moscow, which could violate the rarely enforced, two-century-old Logan Act barring private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers in disputes with the Unites States," the paper reported. The paper added that the Obama advisers asked the FBI if Flynn and Kislyak had discussed a quid pro quo, only to learn the answer was no.
So even though there was no discussion of a quid pro quo, and even though, as reported in the Post account, Yates knew there was "little chance" of actually bringing a Logan Act prosecution against Flynn — despite all that, Yates went ahead with the questioning of Flynn. And two days after that, Yates, along with an aide, went to the White House to tell counsel Don McGahn that there was a legal problem with the national security adviser.
Monday, December 4th 2017 at 7:27PM
Steve Williams
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As for another concern that Yates said she had over the Flynn-Kislyak conversations — the worry that Flynn's lie to Vice President Mike Pence (that sanctions were not discussed on the call) would open Flynn up to possible blackmail — perhaps that is a legitimate concern, but why did it warrant FBI questioning of Flynn under the penalty of prosecution for making false statements? Certainly Yates could have warned the White House about that without interrogating Flynn at all.
Instead, it was the prospect of a Logan Act prosecution that led to the FBI interview, which then, when Flynn lied to investigators, led to his guilty plea on a false statements charge.
From today's perspective, nearly a year later, it has become apparent that, farfetched as it might seem, the Logan Act made it possible for the Obama administration to go after Trump. The ancient law that no one has ever been prosecuted for violating was the Obama administration's flimsy pretense for a criminal prosecution of the incoming Trump team.
And by the way, when it finally came time to charge Flynn with a crime, did prosecutors, armed with the transcripts of those Flynn-Kislyak conversations, choose to charge him with violating the Logan Act? Of course not. But for the Obama team, the law had already served its purpose, months earlier, to entangle the new administration in a criminal investigation as soon as it walked in the door of the White House.
Monday, December 4th 2017 at 7:34PM
Steve Williams
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Absolutely amazing how you want to redirect this conversation from Why did Trump ignore repeated warnings Flynn was compromised?
Today Mike Flynn is now a admitted felon for Lying to the FBI. Why did Mike Flynn had to LIE to the FBI in the first place? Stay Tune.
Tuesday, December 5th 2017 at 12:23AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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And now there is this news about Peter Strzok, which you are studiously not saying a word about. So much for "staying tuned". You will be dismayed Ron when the whole truth eventually comes out. This investigation is far from over.
Tuesday, December 5th 2017 at 1:02AM
Steve Williams
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The main focus of this blog is not about Peter Strzok and I am not looking over there neither. (LOL)
Tuesday, December 5th 2017 at 1:21AM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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It's no surprise Ron. You have always lagged far behind in understanding where these investigations are headed. Peter Strzok is the smoking gun we've all been waiting for.
Tuesday, December 5th 2017 at 8:05AM
Steve Williams
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