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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 19:10:52 GMT -5
I wonder how long it will take before Trump tries to fire him. Seems to me that Mueller has a conflict of interest with respect to his association with Comey. ?? I didn't know Comey was under investigation...
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Post by TC on May 17, 2017 20:27:08 GMT -5
House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016 exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia. Paul Ryan is such a weasel. He knows what McCarthy is saying is true and has just gone along with it for the last year.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 21:32:23 GMT -5
NYT: Michael Flynn told Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under fed. investigation. www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65315008&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the case. Despite this warning, which came about a month after the Justice Department notified Mr. Flynn of the inquiry, Mr. Trump made Mr. Flynn his national security adviser. The job gave Mr. Flynn access to the president and nearly every secret held by American intelligence agencies. Mr. Flynn’s disclosure, on Jan. 4, was first made to the transition team’s chief lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, who is now the White House counsel. That conversation, and another one two days later between Mr. Flynn’s lawyer and transition lawyers, shows that the Trump team knew about the investigation of Mr. Flynn far earlier than has been previously reported. _____________
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2017 21:44:25 GMT -5
Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article151149702.html#storylink=cpyOne of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent. The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president. Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months. If Flynn explained his answer, that’s not recorded, and it’s not known whether he consulted anyone else on the transition team before rendering his verdict. But his position was consistent with the wishes of Turkey, which had long opposed the United States partnering with the Kurdish forces – and which was his undeclared client. Trump eventually would approve the Raqqa plan, but not until weeks after Flynn had been fired. Now members of Congress, musing about the tangle of legal difficulties Flynn faces, cite that exchange with Rice as perhaps the most serious: acting on behalf of a foreign nation – from which he had received considerable cash – when making a military decision. Some members of Congress, in private conversations, have even used the word “treason” to describe Flynn’s intervention, though experts doubt that his actions qualify.
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Post by TC on May 18, 2017 2:49:45 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 4:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 18, 2017 6:06:24 GMT -5
Flynn stopped military plan Turkey opposed – after being paid as its agent Read more here: www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article151149702.html#storylink=cpyOne of the Trump administration’s first decisions about the fight against the Islamic State was made by Michael Flynn weeks before he was fired – and it conformed to the wishes of Turkey, whose interests, unbeknownst to anyone in Washington, he’d been paid more than $500,000 to represent. The decision came 10 days before Donald Trump had been sworn in as president, in a conversation with President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, who had explained the Pentagon’s plan to retake the Islamic State’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Syrian Kurdish forces whom the Pentagon considered the U.S.’s most effective military partners. Obama’s national security team had decided to ask for Trump’s sign-off, since the plan would all but certainly be executed after Trump had become president. Flynn didn’t hesitate. According to timelines distributed by members of Congress in the weeks since, Flynn told Rice to hold off, a move that would delay the military operation for months. If Flynn explained his answer, that’s not recorded, and it’s not known whether he consulted anyone else on the transition team before rendering his verdict. But his position was consistent with the wishes of Turkey, which had long opposed the United States partnering with the Kurdish forces – and which was his undeclared client. Trump eventually would approve the Raqqa plan, but not until weeks after Flynn had been fired. Now members of Congress, musing about the tangle of legal difficulties Flynn faces, cite that exchange with Rice as perhaps the most serious: acting on behalf of a foreign nation – from which he had received considerable cash – when making a military decision. Some members of Congress, in private conversations, have even used the word “treason” to describe Flynn’s intervention, though experts doubt that his actions qualify. This is the FARA violation. As I mentioned in a previous comment, FARA has historically been treated as a regulatory statute despite the criminal penalties associated with it. Many law firms in DC represent foreign government or entities controlled by foreign governments and register under FARA. I am hopeful, given the context of this apparent violation, that Mueller uses it as a leverage point to secure Flynn's cooperation. Is the alleged $530,000 Flynn secretly received from Turkey enough setting aside his apparent violation of the Emoluments Clause as a retired general officer? The threshold for a criminal investigation is the presence of reason to believe that a significant FARA offense has been committed and that sufficient evidence should be available to prove this. The common threads of the last four FARA criminal investigations were: millions of dollars in receipts or expenditures by the prospective defendants; "core" violations of FARA with jury appeal; and evidence of willfulness. The Tong-Sun Park case involved several million dollars of "Food for Peace" monies, some of which were diverted to bribes and lobbying expenses; the unindicted Government of Iran sponsored "Pro-Shah" demonstrations involved some $11,000,000 in expenditures for the 3 day visit; the McGoff case involved some $11,000,000.00 of South African Government money; and the Zakhem case involved some $7,700,000 in Kuwait Government expenditures for a $2,000,000 plus public relations and lobbying campaign. Tong Sun Park involved bribery; the Pro-Shah demonstrations a massive propaganda display; McGoff an attempt to purchase The Washington Star as a South African propaganda organ; and Zakhem war and peace. FARA criminal prosecutions must be approved by the Criminal Division or higher authority under the United States Attorney's Manual, and in practice must first be approved by the appropriate United States Attorney's office. www.justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-2062-foreign-agents-registration-act-enforcement
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Post by SSHoya on May 18, 2017 6:09:56 GMT -5
NYT: Michael Flynn told Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under fed. investigation. www.nytimes.com/2017/05/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-national-security-adviser.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=65315008&pgtype=Homepage&_r=0WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn told President Trump’s transition team weeks before the inauguration that he was under federal investigation for secretly working as a paid lobbyist for Turkey during the campaign, according to two people familiar with the case. Despite this warning, which came about a month after the Justice Department notified Mr. Flynn of the inquiry, Mr. Trump made Mr. Flynn his national security adviser. The job gave Mr. Flynn access to the president and nearly every secret held by American intelligence agencies. Mr. Flynn’s disclosure, on Jan. 4, was first made to the transition team’s chief lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, who is now the White House counsel. That conversation, and another one two days later between Mr. Flynn’s lawyer and transition lawyers, shows that the Trump team knew about the investigation of Mr. Flynn far earlier than has been previously reported. _____________ If Clinton had won and appointed as NSA an individual under federal investigation and knew about it, the GOP-controlled House would be drawing up articles of impeachment on this incident alone. Remember that Pence was ostensibly in charge of the transition team. Did he know about it and let the appointment go forward or was he so incompetent he had no idea this was the case. He claims he first heard of it after Flynn was fired. Didn't that crack WH Counsel Don McGahn let him know it?? Both are fools and/or incompetent.
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Post by SSHoya on May 18, 2017 7:17:01 GMT -5
But wait, there's more! Maybe it is time to prosecute under the Logan Act. Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters. The previously undisclosed interactions form part of the record now being reviewed by FBI and congressional investigators probing Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election and contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said. www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-contacts-idUSKCN18E106
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Post by prhoya on May 18, 2017 7:51:41 GMT -5
TC, where did that come from? Where did that conversation happen?
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Post by SSHoya on May 18, 2017 8:05:03 GMT -5
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Post by prhoya on May 18, 2017 8:27:03 GMT -5
Hi-uuuuge!
So Trump, Pence and Ryan knew. Who's next in line to the Presidency?
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Post by TC on May 18, 2017 8:33:30 GMT -5
Hatch. Even if they get Trump on something, there's going to have to be a lot more dirt to get Pence or Ryan - neither of them are stupid and both of them probably have been angling for plausible deniability.
Trump is too stupid for plausible deniability. He just incriminates himself on Twitter the next day.
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Post by TC on May 18, 2017 8:52:26 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 18, 2017 8:55:02 GMT -5
Hi-uuuuge! So Trump, Pence and Ryan knew. Who's next in line to the Presidency? 1. Vice President Mike Pence 2. Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan 3. President pro tempore of the Senate, Orrin Hatch 4. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson 5. Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin 6. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis 7. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions 8. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke 9. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue 10. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross 11. Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta 12. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price 13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson 14. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry 15. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos
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Post by hoya95 on May 18, 2017 9:08:21 GMT -5
Hi-uuuuge! So Trump, Pence and Ryan knew. Who's next in line to the Presidency? 1. Vice President Mike Pence 2. Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan 3. President pro tempore of the Senate, Orrin Hatch 4. Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson 5. Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin 6. Secretary of Defense, James Mattis 7. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions 8. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke 9. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue 10. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross 11. Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta 12. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price 13 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson 14. Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry 15. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos So at least 16 people have to be impeached, indicted or have to resign before we get Linda McMahon as president? Seems totally reasonable now.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2017 10:32:49 GMT -5
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Post by Nevada Hoya on May 18, 2017 21:20:48 GMT -5
One of those mentioned for director of the FBI, along with Joe L., is my former classmate at Georgetown and former governor of Oklahoma (when the OK City bombing took place) Frank Keating. He was an ex-FBI agent. President of the yard at GU.
Funny story about him and Gen. Jim Jones, when he was commandant of the Marine Corps. Frank had invited Jim out to Oklahoma to celebrate Marine Day. Frank gave quite a praiseworthy introduction to Gen. Jones. Near the end of the intro Jim turned to Frank, and he said "Frank, you don't have to lay it on so much, I voted and even worked for you in your campaign for President of the Yard." Frank did a double take and said "General Jones, Jimmy Jones!" It was only at that point that Frank realized that Jim was his classmate.
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Post by tashoya on May 19, 2017 7:21:09 GMT -5
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