13, included five talks in late December. These colloquies, as Reuters reported on Jan. The explosive question for the FBI is whether members of the Trump campaign were in cahoots with this covert crusade on behalf of their candidate.Įnter Flynn – as a private citizen, before his swearing-in, and a subject of the FBI’s scrutiny – conversing with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States. That fact beggars belief, but American, British and German intelligence services are unanimous about Putin’s astonishing ambitions. (Trump concedes that point but says he had nothing to do with Putin’s efforts.) The intelligence agencies reached this conclusion in December: cyber-attacks, information warfare, and clandestine operations promoted Trump as part of a campaign to destabilize Western democracies. The FBI and the CIA agree that Putin tried to swing the 2016 election for Trump. The case is the most politically charged intelligence investigation since the Cold War.
20 – already the subject of scrutiny by FBI counterintelligence agents and their colleagues at the CIA. His reward was his appointment as national security adviser. After dining as Putin’s guest of honor and taking payments from his propaganda machine, Flynn got on the Trump bandwagon, tweeting links to fake news accusing Hillary Clinton of sex crimes with children and leading “Lock Her Up!” chants at raucous rallies. Then, as a private citizen running an intelligence consulting firm, Flynn got cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin. But he flouted authority and flayed his counterparts in the national security establishment, flaunted what DIA officers called “Flynn facts” – falsehoods – such as asserting that Iran has killed more Americans than al Qaeda in the 21 st century, and was fired in 2014. He had spent a brave decade on the dark side of the war on terror. Commentary: Run-ups to Trump, Nixon presidencies bear striking resemblancesįlynn has been startling superiors and subordinates since he became director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012.
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