Whose head rolls for Flynn's lie?

[irksomesauce]

President Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, was forced to resign on Monday night as a result of getting caught lying about whether he discussed sanctions in a December telephone call with a Russian diplomat. The only reason the public learned about Flynn’s lie is because someone inside the U.S. government violated the criminal law by leaking the contents of Flynn’s intercepted communications.

In the spectrum of crimes involving the leaking of classified information, publicly revealing the contents of SIGINT — signals intelligence — is one of the most serious felonies. Journalists (and all other nongovernmental citizens) can be prosecuted under federal law for disclosing classified information only under the narrowest circumstances; reflecting how serious SIGINT is considered to be, one of those circumstances includes leaking the contents of intercepted communications, as defined this way by 18 § 798 of the U.S. Code:

Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates … or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes … any classified information … obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

That Flynn lied about what he said to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was first revealed by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, who has built his career on repeating what his CIA sources tell him. In his January 12 column, Ignatius wrote: “According to a senior U.S. government official, Flynn phoned Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Dec. 29, the day the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking.”

That “senior U.S. government official” committed a serious felony by leaking to Ignatius the communication activities of Flynn. Similar and even more extreme crimes were committed by what the Washington Post called “nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls,” who told the paper for its February 9 article that “Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials.” The New York Times, also citing anonymous U.S. officials, provided even more details about the contents of Flynn’s telephone calls.

But this sound piece goes on to point out the even bigger story here is the utter partisan hypocrisy both Party's are playing in this instance, exactly opposite of how they played it when the Dems were in power...

...and that whistle blowers are vital so that the public can see time-to-time behind the partisan curtains.

God, I love this shit, and I'm totally looking forward to the progressive media being further implicated in their own totally corrupt, purely partisan participation.

BRING IT ALL DOWN!

The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies
BY Glenn Greenwald
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14...mitted-serious-and-wholly-justified-felonies/

 

[VicShaver]

"Hey McFlynn!"

 

[KingOrfeo]

Flynn's alone, I'm sure.

 

[ishtat]

The value of the Flynn fracas for the political opposition is not in claiming heads in the short term but in consistently painting the administration as corrupt/lawless/incompetent. That should be the Democrat's long term strategy for the next 2 and four years. Heads being rolled implies a conclusion in the voter's minds - better to keep the story running and running until the next story comes along.

The Democrat's strategic objective should be to poison the image of the Administration and the GOP in the voters minds, not just by getting rid of buffoons like Flynn, but by throwing enough shit that it sticks to the honest and competent in Trumpland as well.

I doubt the Dems have the discipline to stay on message.

 

[irksomesauce]

The value of the Flynn fracas for the political opposition is not in claiming heads in the short term but in consistently painting the administration as corrupt/lawless/incompetent. That should be the Democrat's long term strategy for the next 2 and four years. Heads being rolled implies a conclusion in the voter's minds - better to keep the story running and running until the next story comes along.

The Democrat's strategic objective should be to poison the image of the Administration and the GOP in the voters minds, not just by getting rid of buffoons like Flynn, but by throwing enough shit that it sticks to the honest and competent in Trumpland as well.

I doubt the Dems have the discipline to stay on message.

The fatal error in you meaningless foreign summation is that Americans endured a year and a half of the most poisonous campaigning anyone in the world can imagine, let alone so casually observe it from so far, far away.

When the campaign finally was whittled down to the final two, the overwhelmingly majority of Americans knew full well all the magnificently dirty laundry of both, and knew the only way to do their duty either way was by totally holding their nose to vote for either political piece of shit.

But, you as some self-fantasized, foreigner crystal baller tell us the answer to rid ourselves of our President you don't seem to favor is simply to throw more "shit", as if any more of that same smell isn't any that the American voter - far, far more near to it than you can ever dream to be - can't still stand.

Almost 63 million Americans voted for Trump knowing full well all the "shit" that has been possibly produced up to this very second in time, and natively understanding all about the usual political "shit" yet to come...

...yet, without question very, very few of them are even close to being disappointed after the Tool's first 3 weeks, even as you also need to fantasize if only "Dems have the discipline to stay on message" - even as their Party is completely floundering in almost total disarray - so they can somehow pile enough more "shit" on the Tool to make enough of those almost 63 million cease support of the very candidate they specifically voted into Office to basically do what he's purposely already doing.



You don't quite fathom that this Flynn "shit" doesn't matter an iota to the Tool's supporters, even though it has to mean everything to his totally partisan enemies, both within and without...

...right?

It won't be "shit" that'll bring Trump down, because probably no one who has ever sat in the Oval Office has probably dealt with more "shit" than he - including both self-produced and crap flung at him his entire adult career.

Nope, the the mother of all "shit" slinging - American style - over the last year and a half has well-done its job of hardening the President (as it equally would've done if the socialist Clinton would've won) to any "shit" bringing him down: it's going to take an unarguable constitutional violation to fell him - and that's just how America's framers - no strangers to "shit" themselves - constituted it to be.

PS: call me American arrogant, call me rude, but why don't I give any "shit" at all about your country's politics when you seem so erroneously obsessed with mine?

 

[Disgustipated]

PS: call me American arrogant, call me rude, but why don't I give any "shit" at all about your country's politics when you seem so erroneously obsessed with mine?

You're none of those things. You're just a pathetic antagonist with no real convictions or beliefs. Pretty much useless.

 

[KingOrfeo]

PS: call me American arrogant, call me rude, but why don't I give any "shit" at all about your country's politics when you seem so erroneously obsessed with mine?

Because you are ill-natured, mean-minded and willfully ignorant.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

No one.

By Saturday youll burst into flames over something else.

 

[KingOrfeo]

...yet, without question very, very few of them are even close to being disappointed after the Tool's first 3 weeks . . .

Ya think?

 

[NOIRTRASH]

WAPO reports Pelosi and Dems caught with fake Flynn emails.

 

[ishtat]

PS: call me American arrogant, call me rude, but why don't I give any "shit" at all about your country's politics when you seem so erroneously obsessed with mine?

I don't feel the need to either abuse you, or call you anything. Your grossly overblown response does far more to expose your ranting inadequacy than anything I could say.

Incidentally, I lived in the USA for a prolonged period of time, still own a property and pay taxes there, have voted there legally - still could I think.

 

[Fala]

I don't feel the need to either abuse you, or call you anything. Your grossly overblown response does far more to expose your ranting inadequacy than anything I could say.

Incidentally, I lived in the USA for a prolonged period of time, still own a property and pay taxes there, have voted there legally - still could I think.

Criminy...vote here next time. Thanks.