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kpete

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Sat Feb 18, 2017, 12:34 PM Feb 2017

Who Gave Flynn the Orders to Talk to Russia?---"Mikes a soldier. He did not go rogue."


February 18, 2017By Taegan Goddard0 Comments
New Yorker: “Even before Flynn’s rapid fall, his closest military colleagues had been struggling to make sense of what had happened to the talented and grounded general they once knew… Some of Flynn’s former military colleagues, even those from whom he’s drifted apart in recent years, told me they were skeptical that Flynn would have conducted shadow diplomacy on his own. Despite his reputation as an agitator, he was, in the end, a soldier who followed orders, they said.”

Said one intelligence official: “This story is bigger than Mike Flynn. Who told Mike to go do this? I think somebody said, ‘Mike, you’ve got some contacts. Let them know it’s gonna be all right.’ Mike’s a soldier. He did not go rogue.’”

https://politicalwire.com/2017/02/18/gave-flynn-orders-talk-russia/



http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos
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Who Gave Flynn the Orders to Talk to Russia?---"Mikes a soldier. He did not go rogue." (Original Post) kpete Feb 2017 OP
I Haven't thought of it in those terms mercuryblues Feb 2017 #1

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
1. I Haven't thought of it in those terms
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 01:38 PM
Feb 2017

How would Flynn know that trump would do once he took office concerning the sanctions? Trump told him. Trump not wanting to piss off the Russian over the new sanctions and the ambassadors being ejected told Flynn to relay the message to his good friends.

Talk about palling around with terrorists.

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