Marcy Wheeler: On KT McFarland's Belated Unforgetting of the Truth

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https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/09/22/on-kt-mcfarlands-belated-unforgetting-of-the-truth/

"...Mueller has been slowly chipping away at the omertà, and that process will only keep getting easier (in part because virtually none of these people have any decent operational security).

But the other takeaway, and the likely explanation for it coming out, is that my assessment of why the Transition squawked so loudly last year is correct: they wanted to hide how closely Donald Trump micromanaged the sanctions conversation with Sergei Kislyak, and so both Flynn and McFarland lied about it, then subsequently cleaned up their lies. That puts Donald Trump attempting to deliver the quo of the quid pro quo.

Trump may be answering the take home exam he told Mueller he’d be willing to complete, which includes this question, which got added in the wake of Flynn’s plea and probably McFarland’s revised testimony: What discussions did you have during the campaign regarding Russian sanctions?

The correct answers to that question are getting narrower and narrower."

[Hekate]

1. KnR

[tblue37]

2. K&R for visibility. nt

[malaise]

3. Down they go

Rec

[dchill]

4. Upon considering, wow.