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| How Iranian influence operations are receiving new scrutiny in Washington | ||||||||
Congress is very close to passing a bill that would require the Donald Trump administration to more closely monitor foreign influence operations, including those by Iran. The annual defense authorization bill would require the US intelligence community to establish a Foreign Malign Influence Response Center tasked with monitoring Iranian, Russian, Chinese and North Korean efforts to sway US policy and public opinion.
Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., first spearheaded the idea in the House as a response to Russia’s efforts to influence US elections. Presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., then joined forces to expand the scope of the legislation by including Iran, China and North Korea. Why it matters: The cybersecurity firm FireEye released a May report detailing thousands of fraudulent social media accounts criticizing the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, sanctions on Tehran and support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. FireEye assessed with “low confidence” that the fake accounts were “organized in support of Iranian political interests.” However, Twitter and Facebook both noted that they had removed thousands of fake accounts and pages originating in Iran earlier this year. Google also removed dozens of YouTube channels linked to the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in August. What’s next: The House passed the defense bill that would establish the Foreign Malign Influence Response Center 377-48 last week. The Senate begins voting on the legislation today. Assuming it passes, President Trump is expected to sign it into law as the White House supports the bill. Know more: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is already levying similar accusations against the United States and Israel as well as Arab Gulf and European states. The IRGC has blamed them — without offering evidence — for fueling the anti-government protests that emerged after Tehran cut fuel subsidies. | ||||||||
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| FBI does not PR, it is not in a show business. FBI needs truth, honesty, and utter, selfless, complete and total dedication, and the absolutely apolitical stance. | ||||||||
FBI does not PR, it is not in a show business. FBI needs truth, honesty, and utter, selfless, complete and total dedication, and the absolutely apolitical stance.
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| The big historical and geopolitical Swamp of Transcaucasia has to be revamped by the U.S. | ||||||||
The big historical and geopolitical Swamp of Transcaucasia has to be revamped by the U.S., in conjunction, partnership, and Alliance with Israel, Russia (the healthy post-Putin non-corrupted elements of the ruling elites), and EU. The situation in Crimea is very similar, and actually these regions constitute the Northern Mediterranean belt. This region has very significant strategic importance. | ||||||||
| The big historical and geopolitical Swamp of Transcaucasia has to be revamped by the U.S. | ||||||||
 The big historical and geopolitical Swamp of Transcaucasia has to be revamped by the U.S., in conjunction, partnership, and Alliance with Israel, Russia (the healthy post-Putin non-corrupted elements of the ruling elites), and EU. The situation in Crimea is very similar, and actually these regions constitute the Northern Mediterranean belt. This region has very significant strategic importance. If there is the political will, there will be the variety of ways to do this, and it can be done easily. At this moment, America abdicated from this region, and it is a mistake. We have to rethink our overall strategy and to establish the strong presence there. Michael Novakhov - 3:39 PM 12/16/2019 - Post Link _____________________________________________ | ||||||||
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(ˌtrænskɔːˈkeɪzjə ) a region in central Asia, south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas in Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan: a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1918 until 1936. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.Transcaucasia definition and meaning | Collins English ...
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noun. a region in SE Europe, S of the Caucasus Mountains, between the Black and Caspian seas: constituted a republic 1922–36 (Transcauca·sian So·cialist Fed·erated So·viet Repub·lic); area now includes the republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
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| “The American people see through it.” | The American people see everything quite nicely, Donald; and we will help them to see even better. Everything, and you first, are under the microscope. M.N. | ||||||||
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“The American people see through it.” twitter.com/danscavino/sta…
 This "WP" sign, as everyone agrees, can be interpreted in infinite variety of ways, and not necessarily as "White Power". So, I do not think, that we should make a big deal out of this occurrence. M.N. - 2:44 PM 12/16/2019 - Post Link _________________________________________ The American people see everything quite nicely, Donald; and we will help them to see even better. Everything, and you first, are under the microscope. M.N.
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| The Anthony Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. - M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 | ||||||||
The Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. See the links below. M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 - Post Link "Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his | ||||||||
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DescriptionDescriptionIn criminal law, irresistible impulse is a defense by excuse, in this case some sort of insanity, in which the defendant argues that they should not be held criminally liable for their actions that broke the law, because they could not control those actions, even if they knew them to be wrong. Wikipedia | ||||||||
| The Anthony Weiner sexting affair: It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. - M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 | ||||||||
 It looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. See the links below. M.N. - 10:52 AM 12/16/2019 - Post Link "Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch." And this is exactly what we have to understand in his second episode in 2016; WHY?! Many commentators, including myself think, that he was "baited", induced into it. But how? All sexual disorders and/or aberrations have a strong COMPULSIVE component in them, but this does not explain it completely. There is something there that we do not know about. But it looks almost certainly, that it was the FBI operation, that is why Prince, Giuliani, and Kallstrom knew about it in advance, and they bragged about it. We also have to remember, that Weiner was the first who brought up the issue of Trump's relations with Deutsche Bank, and apparently, they wanted to shut him up. It is all described and addressed in my old posts, starting from 2016, read them: Michael Novakhov on Anthony Weiner and the Operation Trump - Google Search. M.N. P.S. As far as I remember, I wrote to DOJ about it, and I think, that this story should of interest to Mr. John Durham, in his inquiry. However, his scope and mandate are presently limited, and he cannot go beyond them. Your humble servant thinks, that they should be expanded and broadened, to include everything of interest, otherwise we will not know the whole story. _________________________________________ Michael Novakhov on Anthony Weiner and the Operation Trump - Google Search
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| Decade moments: How stolen apples, a Twitter joke and a marriage proposal helped shape the 2010s | ||||||||
Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch.
That split-second act initiated a chain of increasingly far-flung consequences, as many observers have chronicled: Weiner’s resignation; his repeated relapses; the tabloids’ years-long obsession with him and his wife, Huma Abedin, who happened to work for Hillary Clinton, who happened to be running for president in late 2016 while dogged by a dormant email scandal, which reactivated 11 days before Election Day when the FBI announced its agents had discovered hundreds of thousands of Clinton’s emails while searching Weiner’s computer for evidence of sexts with an underage girl. That dramatic reminder of Clinton’s email woes arguably swung the election to her opponent, all of which raises the question of whether Donald Trump would be president today had Anthony Weiner not chosen nine years earlier to photograph his underwear. Even the most seemingly insignificant (or in Weiner’s case, ignominious) decisions can influence the course of history. As the 2010s come to an end, we revisit the people whose choices helped spark sweeping changes to our politics, law, culture and the geopolitical order. DEC. 17, 2010A fruit seller tries to get his apples backMohammed Bouazizi, 26, lived without electricity, savings or hope in a rural town in Tunisia, under the rule of a dictator who had held power nearly as long as Bouazizi had been alive. Every morning, he pushed a cart of fruit a mile to the market, where he tried to sell whatever the police did not steal from him.His frustration built day after day, until one day he was pushed too far. As an officer was loading her second basket of unpaid-for apples into her car, a Washington Post reporter who visited the town wrote, Bouazizi tried to block her. The officer pushed the vendor to the ground, confiscated a produce scale that was likely one of Bouazizi’s most valuable possessions and slapped him in the face in front of the entire market. “Bouazizi wept with shame,” The Post wrote. City hall turned him away when he tried to complain, so he “told his fellow vendors he would let the world know how unfairly they were being treated, how corrupt the system was.” Later that day, Bouazizi stood in front of the municipal building, doused himself with paint thinner and ignited. “There had been self-immolations in Tunisia before and others since. For whatever reason, his act seemed to be a tipping point that pushed a lot of people over the edge,” said Steven Heydemann, a political scientist at Smith College who studies the aftermath of Bouazizi’s actions, known today as the Arab Spring. “He really became this kind of iconic symbol to conditions that millions of young people were finding intolerable. They very spontaneously and without much organization just swept into the streets to express anger.” Protests spread from the town of Sidi Bouzid across the country and then through much of North Africa and the Middle East, fueled by social media and Arab newscasts. Tunisia’s ruler was ousted 10 days after Bouazizi died of his burns. The dictators of Egypt, Libya and Yemen soon were gone, too. For a while, it seemed that the Arab Spring would revolutionize the region, but Heydemann noted that most countries eventually fell back to autocracy — or civil war as regimes beat back the protests with violence. Only one country affected by the Arab Spring has managed to hold democratic elections: Tunisia, where a fruit seller started it. JUNE 26, 2013Jim and John decide to marryThey waited two decades to do it, and then everything happened at once.Jim Obergefell was sitting in an armchair in their Cincinnati condo. John Arthur was on the bed, which he rarely left since Lou Gehrig’s disease began to destroy his body. The TV was on, and a news alert informed them that the Supreme Court had just struck down a law that prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex married couples. “That was the first moment in our almost 21 years together when, wow, marriage now has the potential to mean something,” Obergefell recalled. “After I hugged and kissed him, I said let’s get married. Luckily, he said yes. It was totally spur of the moment.” The court’s decision did not affect their state’s ban on same-sex marriage, so Obergefell and Arthur — who by that point was too sick to walk — flew to Maryland on July 11 and got married without leaving the plane. After they returned home, a civil rights attorney heard about them at a party and asked to meet. “He came over on Tuesday, five days after the marriage,” Obergefell said. “He pulled out a blank Ohio death certificate and said, ‘Do you understand that when John dies, his official death certificate will be wrong? They’ll say he was single, and you won’t be his spouse.’” Obergefell had never been to court before, he said. He and Arthur had never considered themselves part of the equality movement. They had been, until that moment, content that the federal government validated their marriage, even though Ohio’s state constitution forbade it. “This piece of paper — knowing John would die officially as an unmarried man — it broke our hearts,” Obergefell said. “But it also made that [state] constitutional amendment real. It made it hurtful. More than that, it made us angry.” The lawyer asked them: “Would you guys like to do something about it?” On July 19, the couple sued their state in federal court. In October, Arthur died. A district judge ruled Ohio’s marriage ban unconstitutional in December. One year later, an appeals court overturned the couple’s victory, along with the victories of 15 other couples who had taken their states to court. The Supreme Court stepped in again and this time Obergefell’s name was on the case. On June 26, 2015 — two years to the day after Obergefell and Arthur’s engagement — same-sex marriage was legalized across the country. AUG. 9, 2014Johnetta Elzie goes to a vigilA few months before a Ferguson, Mo., police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, Johnetta Elzie said, a friend of hers was killed by police in St. Louis. She hadn’t protested that; it was par for the course for a black community living under a police department they saw as trigger-happy.“In St. Louis, there are so many people who have so many stories like that,” she said. “I’ve been harassed over a speeding ticket, had a warrant issued, followed everywhere I go.” Elzie didn’t know Brown. She learned of his death the same way many others did: through a viral photo of him lying in a pool of blood in the middle of the street. On an impulse, she decided to drive across town with a friend that evening to see the scene herself. They arrived after Brown’s body had been removed. About 15 people were still gathered there, and Elzie began tweeting about what she saw and heard. “I just remember there were these two little toddlers and their parents, and they’d been out there all day,” she recalled. “They had to be 2 or 3 years old. And the two little ones kept saying they saw Mike-Mike get killed." “The fact that they kept repeating it — sometimes in life, I wonder what happened in the moment that made you become the person you are right now. For these kids, you could see the point where this is going to be a lifetime of trauma, for these two kids who saw a black man get killed." After she and her friend drove back home that night, she thought about what she’d seen — and what she might see if she returned to the neighborhood. “We stayed up talking. I stayed up tweeting, trying to figure out what was the next thing for tomorrow, or were we even going to go.” She did go to the next vigil for Brown, and the next, and the next, documenting protests, riots and police retaliation in 140-character dispatches. Elzie is loath to take any special credit for the movement now called Black Lives Matter, but nevertheless is known across the country today as one of its most prominent founding activists. JAN. 15, 2015April Reign makes a joke“The Oscars were like my Super Bowl,” said April Reign. “There were special snacks involved. I’d rip off the TV so the kids know this is mommy’s night.”Back in 2015, Reign was a Washington-area attorney, raising two kids with her husband and occupying her free time watching movies and writing tweets for the entertainment of her 8,000 followers. That all changed on the morning the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced. The kids had left for school, and Reign was standing half dressed in her family room listening to the list of names: Julianne Moore, Steve Carrell, Bradley Cooper, Laura Dern, Edward Norton … “There were no people of color nominated at all,” Reign observed of the acting nominees. “And this is the year that gave us ‘Selma.’" She reached for her phone tweeted: “#OscarsSoWhite they asked to touch my hair.” The joke had sprung to mind spontaneously, born from the countless strangers who would walk up to her and ruffle her curls, and the white children in her elementary school who would compare their summer tans to her natural skin. “It was a snarky one-off,” Reign said. “I got dressed and went to work.” The next time she checked Twitter, #OscarsSoWhite was the top hashtag in the world. “#OscarsSoWhite they are adding a best golf movie category.” “#OscarsSoWhite they got their own sitcom on NBC in the 90s.” “#OscarsSoWhite they accurately represent Hollywood and its racial make up.” (That last from Trevor Noah.) The hashtag remained viral well into 2016, until the academy was so thoroughly embarrassed that it redrew its membership to include more people of color. The last Oscars included one of the most diverse list of nominees in history — and Reign was invited. FALL 2017Ashley Judd speaks outAshley Judd had told her story about Harvey Weinstein — what had happened after the all-powerful film producer invited the actress to his hotel room about 20 years earlier — to many people before she began to speak off the record to the New York Times. Judd had told her parents, her agent and her therapist that he had made sexual advances at what she expected to be a business meeting.Weinstein’s sexual predation was something of an open secret in Hollywood. Now the Times reporters were asking her to become the first actress to put her name to an accusation. Judd took a day to think about it. “I just laced up those sneakers and went for a long run,” she said. Her regular route is a one-lane road through the hills, pastures and forests outside Nashville. “I just listened to the countryside and the wind, and the dialogue between my head and my heart,” she said. She imagined the worst-case scenario: retaliation from Weinstein and all the power structures around him. Best case: “I thought maybe there’d be some protests in front of Harvey’s house.” She made up her mind when she reached a farmhouse at the three-quarter-mile mark: “I’d already made the most important decision I’ll ever make: I decided to turn my life over to a loving God,” she said. “The important question is whether you believe the universe is a friendly place. Then it became very — to choose to be Jodi [Kantor] and Megan [Twohey]'s named source became very simple and exceedingly forthright. The yes was absolutely automatic.” The article, which included other accusations and ran just before a New Yorker exposé on Weinstein, did inspire protests. By the end of the month, a viral campaign known as #MeToo was revolutionizing the standards of behavior for powerful men. JUNE 22, 2018A restaurant owner asks Sarah Sanders to leaveStephanie Wilkinson was at home on a Friday evening when her chef called from the Red Hen, a 26-seat restaurant she owns in Lexington, Va., and informed her that President Trump’s press secretary had just walked in.Wilkinson is a Trump critic in a conservative county, and had until that evening kept politics off the menu. But this was the summer of 2018, as Trump was pushing harsh policies against immigrants and transgender people, and several administration officials had already been heckled in public. The staff of the Red Hen, some of whom were gay and concerned about his attitude toward LGBTQ community, were asking for help. Wilkinson arrived at her restaurant — “a tiny little box of a room,” she said — to find Sanders, her husband and a few presumed relatives seated around a plate of cheese. Disconcerted waiters and cooks were in the kitchen, preparing the main course. Wilkinson huddled with her staff, about 10 feet from Sanders’s table, and asked them what they wanted to do. “It was the moment when every single bit of news was happening at the southern border,” Wilkinson recalled. “It felt like a moment of crisis, and I know if I’d said, ‘Suck it up, we’re going to serve her and in two hours it’ll be over,’ to all of us it would be a bit of an ignoring of our moral compass.’” “I said I’d like to ask her to leave. Very quickly, everyone said yes.” So Wilkinson took Sanders outside and did just that. She comped the appetizers and went home. When she woke in the morning, she discovered that one of her kitchen workers had written about Sanders’s eviction on Facebook. In the days that followed, the Red Hen was forced to close, as reporters, supporters and protesters swamped its regular clientele. In the following months, it became almost routine for Trump allies to be hounded in public, as when former Democratic governor Martin O’Malley of Maryland lit into Ken Cuccinelli II, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, at a bar on Capitol Hill last month. In hindsight — at the end of a decade in which every aspect of public life seemed to become political — Wilkinson believes she wouldn’t have acted differently that evening. “This is a unique moment in history,” she said. “People want to have their values heard and upheld by businesses they want to do business with.” The Red Hen has long since reopened, and Wilkinson said business is up. Read More: The best books of 2019 Do you really believe this is the most important election of our lives? Because we’ve heard that before. Illustrations by Jacob Thomas for The Washington Post. Design by Beth Broadwater | ||||||||
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Did Anthony Weiner tweeting a photo of his crotch in 2011 lead to a series of events resulting the election of Donald Trump in 2016? That is the intriguing "butterfly effect" question posed by a Washington Post article by Avi Selk, "Decisions that shaped the decade."Although Selk did not use the term "butterfly effect," that is basically the premise of his article which showed how small events in the 2010s decade caused big changes, including the chain of events brought about by Anthony Weiner, that led to the ruin of Hillary Clinton's campaign in the last days over emails on his laptop, enabling the election of Trump. Barely a year into the 2010s, Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York decided, for reasons that we may never understand completely, to tweet a photo of his crotch. Nearly 45 years ago, during the 139th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Edward Lorenz posed a question: “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?” The answer to that question probably differs from what you’ve heard. That is a question that has to drive liberals crazy if they think about it. The improbable yet very real butterfly effect initiated by Weiner that quite possibly has destroyed their political world. | ||||||||
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Will Mike Flynn be CHARGED over the White House‘s secrets and lies scandal? New questions over whether ex-national security advisor lied to the FBI
Ex-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn could face federal charges if the FBI determines that he lied to investigators. It is an offense not to tell the agency the truth and interviews do not have to be under oath. If the ex-general misled the FBI he could face an investigation with the possibility of felony charges. Flynn talked to the agency on Jan. 26 about a call he had in December with Russia‘s ambassador, the reported. Investigators were so concerned that Flynn had not told them the entire truth, they warned the White House the very same day that the senior aide could be blackmailed. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO The White House conducted its own investigation into the legal ramifications of Flynn‘s call with the Kremlin representative, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, and determined that he hadn‘t broken any laws. President demanded his national security adviser‘s resignation Monday night because an ‘eroding level of trust‘ had made it impossible to leave him in the sensitive position. Flynn told the vice president that he did not discuss sanctions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak only to change his story several weeks later to allow for the possibility that the topic came up. Vice President Mike Pence did not find out about Flynn‘s lapse until Feb. 9, when it was reported by the Washington Post, claimed early on Tuesday evening. That was two weeks after the Department of Justice informed the White House‘s lawyer that Flynn may not have been completely honest. The message was delivered to Trump the same day acting DOJ head Sally Yates talked to White House Counsel Don McGhan. Mike Pence‘s spokesman, Mark Lotter, confirmed NBC‘s reporting to a group of journalists. Lotter further said that the VP learned of Flynn‘s deceit from the report on Feb. 9 that they did. ‘The vice president became of the incomplete information that he had received on Feb. 9 last Thursday night based on media accounts, and he did an inquiry based on those media accounts,‘ Lotter stated. Lotter delivered the statement as reporters finished a gaggle with Spicer about Flynn‘s spectacular fall from grace. Spicer had said at a news conference earlier in the day that Trump had been reviewing and evaluating allegations against Flynn for weeks. He would not get into the details of the situation then, or later, other than to say that it reached ‘critical mass‘ on Monday night. ‘That is why the president decided to ask for his resignation, and he got it.‘ Spicer cited Flynn‘s misleading statements to Pence about the call he had with the Russian ambassador – ‘and a series of other questionable instances‘ that he would not describe. TRUMP: WHAT ABOUT THE LEAKERS?on Tuesday morning tweeted his first public statement since accepting National Security Advisor Michael Flynn‘s resignation – blaming leakers not the disgraced former general, for driving his administration‘s first big scandal.‘The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?‘ the president wrote on . ‘Will these leaks be happening as I deal on etc?‘ A White House aide told DailyMail shortly thereafter that a ‘shameless‘ ‘enemy within‘ is hamstringing the president in ‘disgusting‘ fashion. Trump did not say whether he would prosecute government employees behind the ‘illegal‘ leaks that brought Flynn down after he conducted secret conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December and lied to Vice President Mike Pence about them. Flynn suggested in an interview on Monday with the that he was not currently under federal investigation. It came up as he insisted to the non-profit news outlet that he hadn‘t done anything wrong. ‘If I did, believe me, the FBI would be down my throat, my clearances would be pulled. There were no lines crossed,‘ he said in the interview that hit the internet around the same time as the Times‘ report. Spicer had dismissed concerns earlier in the day that Flynn‘s talk with Kislyak in December was problematic. He said the retired general was dismissed when Trump decided he couldn‘t rely on him. ‘There was nothing wrong or inappropriate about those discussions. It purely came down to a matter of trust. That‘s it,‘ Spicer told reporters. After a thorough review, Flynn was cleared of any violations, Spicer said during his daily briefing. ‘We got to a point not based on a legal issue but based on a trust issue where the level of trust between the president and General Flynn had eroded to the point where he felt he had to make a change,‘ the president‘s press secretary said. Flynn was not fired on Jan. 26 when Yates informed McGhan that Flynn‘s story didn‘t add up because the Justice Department hadn‘t launched a probe and could not say with certainty that the Trump official had lied, Spicer posited. ‘The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable instances is what led the president to ask for General Flynn‘s resignation,‘ Spicer told reporters during his Tuesday briefing. Asked later to explain what those other instances were, Trump‘s spokesman said his ‘statement was very clear – it was this and a series of issues.‘ Spicer declined to offer clarification later in his office. He would not say what the tipping point was for Trump was with Flynn, either. ‘The president made a decision last night, that’s as far as I’m going to go,‘ he told reporters on Tuesday. Flynn has not spoken out since his interview with the DCNF that took place at an unknown time on Monday. He talked to the DCNF, he has said, because the president encouraged him to defend himself. The retired three-star general had no idea at that time that he was headed for the chopping block. ‘He [President Donald Trump] expressed confidence,‘ Flynn is quoted as saying to the DNCF. ‘That‘s when he told me that we need to go out and talk more. So I‘m going to do that.‘ The interview was conducted ‘just hours before his resignation,‘ DNCF‘s Richard Pollock stated. It is not clear how late in the day Flynn spoke to DCNF. Spicer announced just after 5pm on Monday that Flynn was being evaluated. Flynn told the DNCF at that time that he believed the controversy surrounding his call with Kislyak was ‘ridiculous‘ and ‘out of control.‘ ‘I haven‘t been fighting back because I‘m not that kind of guy. I‘m behind the scenes. I‘ve always been behind the scenes,‘ he said. Attempting to clear his name, Flynn said that he did discuss the Obama administration‘s punishing actions with Kislyak – but only in the abstract. ‘It was basically, ‘Look, I know this happened. We‘ll review everything.‘ I never said anything such as, ‘We‘re going to review sanctions,‘ or anything like that,‘ he said. Flynn said he reminded the Russian ambassador that Trump wouldn‘t be in office for several more weeks. ‘ ‘Give us some time to take a look at everything,‘ ‘ he remembers saying. Spicer said he was unable to corroborate Flynn‘s conversation with DCNF, particularly the part about Trump saying his aide should defend himself and speak out, when it came up in his gaggle with reporters on Tuesday night. A senior administration official suggested that Flynn had been on the ropes for some time. The official told reporters Tuesday, after the DCNF story, that the White House talked to Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward for the high-ranking position last week and again on Monday. ‘We‘ve been getting our ducks in a row for a long time,‘ the official stated. Spicer said the White House is aiming to have a permanent replacement for Flynn in place by the end of the week but would not offer a definitive timeline for hiring. House Speaker Paul Ryan was the first to say that Trump had asked for his national security advisor‘s resignation. ‘National security is perhaps the most important function or responsibility a president has. And I think the president made the right decision,‘ Ryan said of Flynn‘s departure on Tuesday morning. At a House leadership press conference the Republican told reporters, ‘You cannot have a national security adviser misleading the vice president and others. So I think the president was right to ask for his resignation. And I believe it was the right thing to do.‘ Ryan said Wednesday, on MSNBC, ‘If I were the president, I would have done the exact same thing.‘ He would not chastise Trump for keeping Pence in the dark about Flynn‘s missteps. ‘The president backed up the vice president. The president said if he was misleading to Mike Pence, than he‘s gotta go. And that‘s what counts, here I think,‘ Ryan told Morning Joe. The White House tried to gently remove Flynn from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, allowing him to tender his resignation even as it kicked him out. A White House press release Monday night stated that Trump had accepted Flynn‘s resignation and was appointing Lt. General Joseph Keith Kellogg, Jr. to the post. It did not say that Flynn had been dismissed. An accompanying letter from Flynn said, ‘I am tendering my resignation, honored to have served our nation and the American people in such a distinguished way.‘ Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway made it sound like a mutual decision on Good Morning America as she spoke about the situation with Flynn at the behest of the president. Flynn resigned because he realized he‘d become a distraction for the administration, she said. ‘It became increasingly unsustainable for him.‘ The president accepted the senior aide‘s resignation because he ‘misled‘ the vice president, Conway said. He was ‘dishonest or forgetful.‘ Flynn‘s letter acknowledged that he ‘inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. ‘I have sincerely apologized to the President and the Vice President, and they have accepted my apology.‘ He told the DCNF earlier in the day, when he thought he was staying on that he felt ‘terrible‘ about the position he put Pence in. ‘He‘s a man of incredible integrity. I think the world of him. He is so good for our country,‘ he said. ‘I should have said, ‘I don‘t know. I can‘t recall,‘ which is the truth. Looking back, that‘s what I should have done.‘ Pence‘s office suggested Tuesday evening that the apology had been accepted, but the VP also believed that Flynn needed to go. ‘The vice president has tremendous respect for the fact that General Flynn tendered his resignation last night and that the president accepted that resignation,‘ Lotter said. ‘He is very grateful for General Flynn’s service to our nation in uniform and his service to this administration, and he wishes him very well.’ As of early Monday evening, Trump was ‘evaluating‘ Flynn‘s position. Conway said on GMA that Flynn‘s clarification that he may he have talked about sanctions on the call after all ‘accelerated matters.‘ The hysteria over Flynn reached ‘a fever pitch‘ Monday night, Conway said. ‘The fact is the president is a very loyal person and he has a team him that serves him very admirably, and in this case information had been forthcoming for a while, but the situation had gotten to a fever pitch yesterday, later in the day.‘ Ryan offered a more direct version of events at his news conference on Tuesday. ‘I think the key is that as soon as this person lost the president‘s trust, the president asked for his resignation,‘ he said, ‘and that was the right thing to do.‘ Spicer took a similar tone at his own news conference. ‘The president was very concerned that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others,‘ Spicer said. ‘He was also very concerned in light of sensitive subjects dealt with by that position of national security advisors like China, North Korea and the Middle East, that the president must have complete and unwavering trust for the person in that position.‘ FLYNN‘S VERY MESSY DEPARTURE – AND HOW IT ALL BEGANDecember 29: Obama announces sanctions against Russia over alleged hacks targeting election. Flynn spoke with Russian ambassador Kislyak repeatedly the same day, it was later reported.December 30: Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will not respond to the sanctions, surprising many U.S. officials. Trump praises Putin‘s decision as ‘very smart.‘ January 13: Trump spokesman Sean Spicer says Flynn had called Kislyak merely to set up a phone call between Trump and Putin January 15: Vice President-elect Mike Pence says in an interview with CBS that Flynn had not discussed santions in the call with Kislyak January 20: Trump inaugurated president January 23: Spicer, now White House spokesman, said Flynn had told him the call to Kislyak covered four topics: a plane crash that killed a Russian military choir; Christmas greetings; Russian-led talks over the Syrian civil war; and logistics for a call between Putin and Trump January 26: Flynn talks to the FBI about the call with Kislyak. Acting Attorney General Sally Yates briefs Trump officials that intercepted communications indicated Flynn had discussed sanctions with Kislyak in ways she believed were ‘highly significant‘ and ‘potentially illegal‘ White House Counsel Don McGhan passes on her concerns to the president and other senior aides. January 30: Trump fires Yates for refusing to defend executive immigration order in court February 8: Flynn denies in interviews that he discussed sanctions in the calls with Kislyak February 9: Flynn backpedals, saying through a spokesperson that he ‘couldn‘t be certain‘ sanctions weren‘t discussed February 13: Report breaks of Justice Department concerns about blackmail, and Flynn resigns hours later Flynn, a retired military general, stepped down late on Monday night, less than a month into Trump‘s administration as questions mounted over his close links with the Kremlin. His stunning announcement, first reported by , came just hours after sources close to the government revealed that the Justice Department had warned the new administration that his conversation with the Kremlin had put him in a compromising position and left him open to blackmail. Flynn made numerous phone calls to the Russian Ambassador to the US before Trump took office, and later hinted he may have gone against diplomatic protocol by discussing the rollback of sanctions. The VP had vouched for Flynn, without knowing the full details of the calls, and gave him his full support several days before the inauguration. Retired general Keith Kellogg has taken over as acting national security advisor, but the administration is considering former CIA Director David Petraeus and US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard as permanent replacements. Democrats in the House of Representatives are demanding a classified briefing and have renewed calls for an investigation into the Russia‘s election meddling in response to the abrupt resignation announcement. Reps. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), respectively the ranking members of the Judiciary and Oversight committees said in a statement that they were ‘shocked and dismayed‘ to learn that the Trump administration was informed of Flynn‘s vulnerabilities three weeks ago. ‘We in Congress need to know who authorized his actions, permitted them, and continued to let him have access to our most sensitive national security information despite knowing these risks. We need to know who else within the White House is a current and ongoing risk to our national security.‘ Former acting attorney general Sally Yates told the new administration last month she was concerned over potential blackmail after Flynn denied that he had discussed sanctions in calls with the Russian ambassador to the United States, the reported just hours before the resignation. Intelligence intercepts of those calls indicate that they did touch on sanctions in ways Yates believed were ‘highly significant‘ and ‘potentially illegal‘, leaving Russia with potential leverage over Flynn, the Post reported. Flynn, a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, spoke to Kislyak more than once before Trump took office, sparking concerns that the two were discussing US policy toward Russia. One call took place on the same day that President Obama applied sanctions against Moscow for their alleged interference in the presidential election. The White House says Trump was aware of the warning, but it was not enough for him to fire Flynn. The Trump administration‘s handling of the Flynn firing was fraught with conflicting information. First, Chief White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told MSNBC that President Donald Trump wasn‘t planning to axe his national security advisor. ‘General Flynn does enjoy the full confidence of the president,‘ Conway said. Less than an hour later, press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement that the president ‘is evaluating the situation‘. ‘He‘s speaking to Vice President Pence relative to the conversation the Vice President had with Gen. Flynn,‘ Spicer said, ‘and also speaking to various other people about what he considers the single most important subject there is: our national security.‘ I inadvertently briefed the Vice President Elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian Ambassador. -FLYNN RESIGNATION LETTER Spicer told reporters in his office on Monday evening that Flynn has not offered to quit his position, and called questions about whether Trump would accept his resignation ‘hypothetical.‘ He said he had spoken directly with Trump about the latest statement‘s wording, declaring that it reflected the president‘s ‘current thinking.‘ ‘This is what he asked me to communicate to you,‘ Spicer recounted. After flatly denying he‘d discussed rolling back sanctions with Russian officials in a January 15 interview, Flynn said he was uncertain whether the subject came up. Two administration officials told DailyMail on Friday that Flynn was still unsure what he told Kislyak, the Russian ambassador. One said he couldn‘t be ‘100 percent‘ certain sanctions were not discussed. Monday‘s joint press conference between Trump and Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau came and went without a single Flynn-related question. Retired General Keith Kellogg will take over as acting National Security Advisor Trump didn‘t respond to shouted queries as he left the White House‘s East Room. As of Monday night, he had not commented on Flynn‘s departure. Hillary Clinton took to Twitter on Monday night to share her opinion on National Security Advisor Michael Flynn‘s resignation, suggesting there are ‘real consequences of fake news‘. Clinton retweeted a post from longtime confidante Phillipe Reines on Monday night, where he suggested Flynn and his son, who spread the discredited ‘Pizzagate‘ conspiracy theory on social media, get jobs at Domino‘s. ‘Philippe‘s got his own way of saying things, but he has a point about the real consequences of fake news,‘ Clinton said in her tweet. Reines had written, ‘Dear Mike Flynn & Mike Flynn Jr., What goes around COMETS around. And given your pizza obsession…‘, with a link to Domino‘s Pizza‘s job site. In December, Flynn Jr tweeted about the Pizzagate conspiracy, which linked Clinton and her campaign chief to Comet Ping Pong pizza shop in Washington, DC. The theory suggested that Clinton and John Podesta presided over a child-sex ring run out of the DC pizza parlor. Police said a 28-year-old North Carolina man opened fire with a rifle inside the restaurant in December because he thought child sex-slaves were being held against their will in the basement. No one was harmed but the man was arrested. In his tweet, Flynn Jr did not endorse the conspiracy theory, but predicted that it wouldn‘t go away. ‘Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it‘ll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many ‘coincidences‘ tied to it,‘ he tweeted. Meanwhile, Russian lawmakers suggested that Flynn had been forced out of his position because Trump‘s administration had been ‘infected‘ by anti-Russian feeling. ‘Either Trump has not gained the requisite independence and he is consequently being not unsuccessfully backed into a corner, or Russophobia has already infected the new administration also from top to bottom,‘ MP Konstantin Kosachev was cited as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency. Mike Flynn was paid to party with Putin and the acting attorney-general said he was ‘vulnerable to blackmail‘: So what exactly does the Kremlin strongman have on one-time general?Mike Flynn resigned as President Trump‘s national security advisor Monday night after it was revealed the acting attorney general had warned the White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to blackmail by the Russians.It wasn‘t known precisely what could have made Flynn subject to pressure, but the retired Army Lt. Gen. had come under close scrutiny for his Russia ties, and a series of conversations he had with Russia‘s ambassador to the U.S. Flynn‘s Russia ties had already caused political problems for Trump during the campaign and the transition. Flynn gave paid remarks in Moscow in December 2015 for an event celebrating the 10th anniversary of Russia Today, the Kremlin-backed network. He was seated next to Russian president Vladimir Putin for the event. Flynn had just left the military at the time. He wouldn‘t reveal to the how much he was paid for the engagement. ‘I was asked by my speaker‘s bureau, LAI. I do public speaking. It was in Russia. It was a paid speaking opportunity,‘ Flynn told the paper. ‘The gig was to do an interview with [RT correspondent] Sophie Shevardnadze. It was an interview in front of the forum, probably 200 people in the audience,‘ he said. After the speech, Flynn sat at Putin‘s table, and was seated at his right-and side. Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama, also said he briefed Russian intelligence on the trip, which he noted had been approved by the U.S. government. ‘I had a great trip. I was the first U.S. officer ever allowed inside the headquarters of the GRU [Russian intelligence]. I was able to brief their entire staff,‘ Flynn said. ‘I gave them a leadership OPD. [a professional development class on leadership] and talked a lot about the way the world‘s unfolding. Asked if that was something he wanted to do, Flynn responded: ‘DIA has offices in 142 countries. I was visiting some of our key attachés and one of them was [in] Russia.‘ Some of his military colleagues were ‘dismayed‘ by his post-military behavior the Post reported. Among those listed was retired Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who made Flynn his top intelligence officer in Afghanistan, but who declined comment. WHO WILL REPLACE FLYNN AS NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR?Retired Army General Keith Kellogg, a member of Trump‘s transition team, will temporarily fill the role of National Security Advisor until Michael Flynn‘s announced.Murmurs of who will take over the position have circulated and include the potential for Kellogg to stay on permanently. At least three other candidates have been discussed with the media, including retired Navy Vice Admiral Robert Harward, Former CIA Director David Petraeus and former US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard. Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, Interim National Security Advisor A senior administration official reportedly told NBC News that Kellogg is being considered to stay on permanently. Kellogg, 72, was previously appointed by Trump as the head of the presidential transition agency action team for defense. He was a former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, and served as chief operating officer of the Western coalition in Baghdad, Iraq, after the United States led the invasion in 2003. Former CIA Director David Petraeus Former CIA director and retired Army General David Petraeus is also reportedly being discussed as a potential to fill Flynn‘s shoes. National Security Council staffers say Petraeus is due to meet with President Trump at the White House this week, according to the Huffington Post. Petraeus, a retired four-star general, was bounced from his position atop the intelligence agency in 2012 after he it was revealed that he passed on classified information to his biographer, who had also become his mistress. Petraeus reportedly ended the affair with his principal biographer Paula Broadwell in 2012 after learning that she had sent threatening emails to a long-time family friend, Jill Kelley. He resigned from his position with the CIA in November 2012 and later pleaded guilty on a misdemeanor charge for mishandling classified materials. Petraeus was briefly under consideration to become Secretary of State before Trump picked Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward Another name being discussed is retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, the former deputy to Defense Secretary James Mattis. Additionally, he is a retired Navy SEAL and served as the Deputy Commander of US Joint Forces Command. Upon retirement in 2013 after a nearly 40-year career in the Navy, Harward took a post as a chief executive officer for defense and aerospace giant Lockheed Martin in the United Arab Emirates. Another name being discussed is retired Vice Admiral Robert Harward, the former deputy to Defense Secretary James Mattis Trump has recently been in very public negotiations with Lockheed over the cost of its F-35 fighter jet program. Two senior US officials reportedly confirmed to NBC News that Harward was the ‘favorite‘ for the position. US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard has also been said to be under consideration. She is the current commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, and was the first African-American woman to command a US Navy ship and hold the position of Vice Chief of Naval Operations. Among her other record-setting achievements, she was also the first female graduate of the Naval academy to be selected for flag rank. Former National Security aide Tom Bossert Tom Bossert, President Trump‘s choice for Homeland Security Advisor, was also mentioned by Karam as a candidate for the position. Bossert served as a national security aide to George W Bush during his last year as president. He also served two years as a White House director of infrastructure policy. Retired Admiral James Stavridis Though James Stavridis previously said that he would not serve under the Trump administration, his name has come up amongst potentials for NSA. He currently serves as the Dean for Tufts University‘s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. When asked in 2016 about the potentiality of him joining the Trump team, he said: ‘I‘m happy to provide advice, but I don‘t see myself joining the administration.‘ US Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly John Kelly is the current US Homeland Security Secretary appointed by Donald Trump, but has reportedly been discussed as Flynn‘s replacement. Kelly recently made headlines after telling San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman that he didn‘t ‘have a clue‘ what a sanctuary city was. Kelly is a retired four-star United States Marine Corps General. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday that the resignation was an internal matter for the United States. ‘We‘ve said everything we want to say,‘ Peskov told reporters on a conference call. Peskov has previously said that Flynn and the ambassador did not discuss lifting sanctions in their conversations. He declined to elaborate on those earlier comments when asked on Tuesday. Flynn‘s military career ended when Obama dismissed him as defense intelligence chief. He claimed he was pushed out for holding tougher views than the Obama administration about Islamic extremism. But a former senior US official who worked with Flynn said the firing was for insubordination, after the Army lieutenant general failed to follow guidance from superiors. Once out of government, he disappeared into the murky world of mid-level defense contractors and international influence peddlers. He shocked his former colleagues a little more than a year later by appearing at a Moscow banquet headlined by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Given a second chance by Trump, Flynn, a lifelong if apolitical Democrat, became a trusted and eager confidant of the Republican candidate, joining anti-Hillary Clinton campaign chants of ‘Lock Her Up‘ and tweeting that ‘Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL‘. As national security advisor, Flynn required no Senate confirmation vote or public vetting of his record, and his tenure was brief but turbulent. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE?Three figures have now been ousted from Trump‘s circle over ties to Russia:Carter Page: Was named one of five foreign policy advisors to Trump campaign in March 2016. In September, Page resigned from the campaign after reports that U.S. intelligence officials were investigating s between Page and Russians under U.S. sanctions. Paul Manafort: Joined Trump‘s campaign in March 2016, named campaign chairman one month later. Resigned in August 2016 after reports that he may have recieved $12.7 million in off-the-books payments from a Kremlin-allied political party in the Ukraine. Michael Flynn: Joined the campaign as an advisor in February 2016 – after offering his services to other Republicans too. Was reportedly considered as vice-presidential running-mate. Was offered job of National Security Advisor in Trump administration, but resigned after 24 days after reports he‘d lied about discussing sanctions rollbacks with Russian ambassador. | ||||||||
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THE REAL COUP WAS IN 2016 | THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
The real Coup was in 2016, and it was performed by the corrupt, pro neo-Nazi oriented, Abwehr bought and subverted, the Rightist wing of the GOP, the Broidy-Manafort ring in its latest reincarnation; and by the other alumni of the Abwehr Law School, a.k.a. Roy Cohn’s Law Firm: Little Duce Giuliani, “dirty trickster” Roger Stone, and their circles, climbing and clawing their ways to Power and Money. And apparently, some officers of the New York Branch of the FBI were their ideological and operational “stormtroopers”. Search the Anthony Weiner sexting affair scandal as FBI operation, much under-researched, under-investigated, and under-publicized.
If only a part of all these legitimate and well based suspicions and accusations against the New York branch of the FBI are proven or sufficiently demonstrated, this question would be quite legitimate: Was at least a part of the NY FBI branch corrupt, rotten, in Trump’s pocket, and under possible influences of the foreign agents?
Investigate the “STORMTROOPERS” – the alleged “pro-Trumpists” within the NY branch of the FBI, and look into the general health of the whole branch.
Investigate James Kallstrom and others!
Investigate the Abwehr – Roy Cohn Law School and all its “graduates”.
Investigate the political corruption in both parties. Investigate the corruption and failures within the FBI, and their root causes. The proof is in the pudding, sadly but undeniably.
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