Senior officials on President Donald Trump’s transition team warned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn about contacting the Russian ambassador to the U.S. ahead of Flynn’s December call with Sergey Kislyak, the Washington Post reported Friday evening, citing unnamed current and former U.S. officials.
Members of the Trump transition team told Flynn that Kislyak’s communications were likely being monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies, according to the Washington Post. Marshall Billingslea, a former George W. Bush official on Trump’s transition team asked the Obama administration for a CIA profile of Kislyak, but it’s not clear Flynn read the document, per the Post.
The Associated Press also reported Friday night that a member of the Trump transition team requested a profile of Kislyak from the Obama administration.
Flynn resigned from the Trump administration in February following revelations that he spoke with Kislyak about sanctions imposed on Russia by the Obama administration.
Read the Washington Post report here.
Wait: isn’t the real story here that Flynn was warned about the US intelligence community (i.e. be careful what you say to Kislyak because it will be monitored)?
If that isn’t the story, Flynn is being hung out to dry.
The obvious truth of the matter–and for confirmation we’ll need probably full retention and disclosure of Trump campaign communications, because I don’t see Flynn flipping–is that Flynn was encouraged, i.e., authorized, by Trump to discuss terminating the Russia sanctions. Alternatively, Trump retrospectively ratified the treacherous Flynn discussions when he was briefed about them and then chose to retain Flynn and to adhere to the state of affairs produced by the discussions.
Flynn’s prior grotesque speeches about Hillary Clinton with his “call and response” of “Lock her up!” coupled with all of the revelations about him, lays his hypocrisy and corruption bare. Lock him up!
Yeah, sure they did. He’s the scapegoat, they were all doing it.
Drip, drip, derp