Daily Kos: Flynn's Secret Meeting with Kislyak was 'No Rogue Action'
The White House knew the election was dirty from the get go.
Mike Pence, “defend election legitimacy now.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/19/1742807/-Flynn-s-Secret-Meeting-with-Kislyak-was-No-Rogue-Action?detail=emaildkre
Trump’s team has portrayed Flynn as a rogue actor over his contacts with the Russians, in which he apparently promised that the new administration would ease sanctions imposed by Barack Obama on Russia in connection to its alleged online meddling in the 2016 elections. But emails seen by the Times show senior transition official K.T. McFarland had notified other staff that Flynn would be reaching out to Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak as part of an effort to repair U.S.-Russian relations, “which has just handed the U.S.A. election to him [Trump].”
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In an email to another transition official, now-homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert, McFarland wrote that “Russia’s response over the next few days” to Flynn’s outreach would be crucial. Per the Times, Bossert then forwarded that December 29th email exchange to at least six other officials including Flynn, Reince Priebus, Stephen Bannon, and Sean Spicer. He added that everyone needed to “defend election legitimacy now.”
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Up til now, Mike Pence has claimed time and again he was “out of loop”. That he knew nothing of the Flynn peace-offering mission. That these were all rogue actions, by rouge players — to conduct secret international diplomacy, on a whim, on their own initiative. For the fun of it, apparently.
EVEN THOUGH, Mike Pence was the Boss of every one them — since Pence was the Director of the Transition Team, where this micro-managed “mend the fences conspiracy” occurred.
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