Carl Bernstein: Flynn is central to what the FBI believes is cover-up

[applegrove]

BY MAX GREENWOOD at the Hill

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/330612-carl-bernstein-flynn-is-central-to-what-fbi-believes-is-cover

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Top lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee said on Tuesday that Flynn might have broken the law by accepting payments from Russia and Turkey and failing to disclose the payments to the government.


"There, he is central to what the FBI believes is a cover-up going on among people close to the president of the United States about what happened with the Trump campaign and Russia," Bernstein, who rose to fame as part of the reporting duo that investigated former President Nixon's Watergate scandal, said.


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[applegrove]

1. So it is a cover up.

[SunSeeker]

2. Of course it is a coverup. Has been from day 1. nt

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Too bad we dont have a justice department.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Given that Flynn remained as NSA for two weeks.....

....after the administration was supposedly notified about his contacts with the Russian ambassador (as if they didn't already know, but that's beside the immediate point), and even accompanied Trump to Mar a Lago the weekend before he was fired/forced to resign, and was in attendance during the press conference with PM Trudeau the afternoon before he resigned, and several days before the resignation Trump claimed he didn't know anything about Flynn's contacts with the Russians......you're damn right there's a cover up.

[nycbos]

5. If I was Flynn I would be angry with Trump.

He was one of his earliest supporters, parroted every line about Hillary, helped get him elected, and then he gets thrown under the bus.


I would be angry enough to spill the beans.

[LanternWaste]

7. I'm guessing it's because his request for immunity was denied by the Senate Intel Comm.

I'm guessing it's because his (Flynn's) request for immunity was denied by the Senate Intel Comm. earlier this month. Lacking that immunity, he'd do well to keep everything as close to his chest as he can.

On the other hand, it was Trump who initially suggested (via tweet last last month) that Flynn request immunity... if Flynn was going to spill Trump's beans, it would have been engineered by Trump..?

My best guess is our Keystone Cops Administration and everyone associated with them from the campaign to the present is simply to dull-witted to know what is really what.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. So carefully worded...FBI believes is a coverup going on among people close to....

Can we say, in refusing to provide the Inv. Com. docs related to the investigation, not just close to the POS, ...may we have the docs mr. whatever who sits in the oval office....

[kentuck]

8. Does anyone know how Trump come to know General Flynn?

Were they introduced by Vladimir Putin? Who knows?

Who approached whom?

Are we dealing with an organized criminal organization or just a bunch of inept burglars that don't know what the hell they are doing?

[mitch96]

9. I just hope now that they have leverage on him

He will sing like a bird to save his ass....
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