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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon May 8, 2017, 03:55 PM May 2017

Yates: Flynn Was 'Compromised With Respect To The Russians'

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 8, 2017 3:25 PM

Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified Monday that she first warned the White House days after inauguration that ousted national security adviser Michael Flynn had misled members of the Trump administration about his contacts with Russian officials, and that Russia knew about those conversations.

“We felt like it was critical that we get this information to the White House because, in part, the Vice President was unknowingly making false statements to the public, and because we believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians,” Yates said in a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism.

Yates said she and a member of the Justice Department’s national security devision met with White House Counsel Don McGahn in his office on Jan. 26 to let him know that Vice President Mike Pence and other administration officials were going on the record with comments about Flynn’s contacts with Russia “that we knew to be untrue.”

She declined to describe how DOJ learned that Flynn was lying to the White House, saying that information was classified. Yates said she also informed McGahn that the FBI interviewed Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, and declined to answer McGahn’s question about how he “did.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/sally-yates-told-white-house-counsel-flynn-misled-american-public-russia-knew



‘The Russians also knew’: Sally Yates confirms she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed

BRAD REED
08 MAY 2017 AT 15:18 ET

During testimony in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had two in-person meetings and one phone call where she warned Trump administration officials about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Yates said she first requested the meetings to sound the alarms about Flynn after she saw public statements by Vice President Mike Pence about Flynn’s conversations with Russian government officials that she knew not to be true.

“We told them how we had this information, how we acquired it, how we knew it to be untrue,” said Yates, who says she spoke directly to the White House Counsel about this information.

Yates said that she told White House officials that Pence deserved to know that Flynn had not been truthful about his communications with Russian officials. “We weren’t the only ones who knew all of this,” Yates said. “The Russians also knew what Gen. Flynn had done.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/the-russians-also-knew-sally-yates-confirms-she-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-blackmailed/
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Yates: Flynn Was 'Compromised With Respect To The Russians' (Original Post) DonViejo May 2017 OP
Pence knew and was lying about it ... aggiesal May 2017 #1
He would be incredibly incompetent if he did not. Hortensis May 2017 #2
WTF would she provide Pence cover Cosmocat May 2017 #3
She didn't at the time ... aggiesal May 2017 #4
Here is a link ... aggiesal May 2017 #5
Obviously dalton99a May 2017 #14
Pence is complicit Achilleaze May 2017 #6
yes BlueJac May 2017 #7
He was HEAD of the freakin' TRANSITION TEAM forcryingoutloud! calimary May 2017 #8
Pence was also on the campaign trail with all of these guys FakeNoose May 2017 #17
k and r..nt Stuart G May 2017 #9
She handed them their asses. DK504 May 2017 #10
Sally Yates was not fired because of her Muslim Ban opinion Delmette2.0 May 2017 #11
Trump fired Yates. rockfordfile May 2017 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Sorceress May 2017 #16
I think it was leaked that Comey tried to get her to warn White House even earlier wishstar May 2017 #13
Don't forget that this was all discussed with Obama before the election FakeNoose May 2017 #18
There has to be more to this DeminPennswoods May 2017 #15

aggiesal

(8,864 posts)
1. Pence knew and was lying about it ...
Mon May 8, 2017, 04:17 PM
May 2017

Trying to repeat the lie so that the Trumpsters can claim fake news.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. He would be incredibly incompetent if he did not.
Mon May 8, 2017, 04:24 PM
May 2017

Yes, I know, , but the competence that comes with fitness for a job and the wisdom to do it well is different from the talent for self aggrandizing that brings many of these right-wing disasters to the top. Of course he knew all he needed to know to try to maintain a firewall.

aggiesal

(8,864 posts)
4. She didn't at the time ...
Mon May 8, 2017, 04:43 PM
May 2017

so she tells the WH that Pence is making statements that the intelligence
community know are false.

I believe that since, it has been reported that Pence knew about Flynn
and continued to lie. I'll have to look for a link to verify.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. Pence is complicit
Mon May 8, 2017, 05:11 PM
May 2017

Pence colluded.

republicans have been selling out America to the freaking evil empire* of Russia as they commit Acts of War** against the USA.

It's absolute & deplorable republican TREASON.

* per ronald reagan
** per Dick Cheney (for gawd's sake)

calimary

(80,693 posts)
8. He was HEAD of the freakin' TRANSITION TEAM forcryingoutloud!
Mon May 8, 2017, 06:15 PM
May 2017

How can he keep trying to play dumb about everything that went on then, on his watch, and under his aegis.

I can't see ANY way that he's clean on this. Unless he's just the shittiest, most negligent, most deeply asleep-at-the-wheel manager ever.

FakeNoose

(32,345 posts)
17. Pence was also on the campaign trail with all of these guys
Tue May 9, 2017, 09:56 AM
May 2017

Manafort, Flynn, Nunes and the others were all colluding with the Russians during the campaign.
I'm sure Pence was there and knew all about it, even if he didn't participate.
He's in on it - that's the only answer.



DK504

(3,847 posts)
10. She handed them their asses.
Mon May 8, 2017, 06:20 PM
May 2017

"She declined to describe how DOJ learned that Flynn was lying to the White House, saying that information was classified."

She needs to keep things out of the Senate Repukes hands. They will disclose classified investigations to Russia so they can cover their crimes.

It is to bad she had to disclose to the co-conspirators on how they discovered they were all traitors.

Delmette2.0

(4,141 posts)
11. Sally Yates was not fired because of her Muslim Ban opinion
Mon May 8, 2017, 06:30 PM
May 2017

She was fired because of her knowledge about Mike Flynn. 45 knew she would persist so she was fired with a false reason, another distraction from the Russian conspiracy.

rockfordfile

(8,682 posts)
12. Trump fired Yates.
Mon May 8, 2017, 08:10 PM
May 2017

Trump has been in collusion with the Russians for years. I wouldn't be surprised if Flynn was brought into the Russians by Trump and company.

Response to rockfordfile (Reply #12)

wishstar

(5,267 posts)
13. I think it was leaked that Comey tried to get her to warn White House even earlier
Mon May 8, 2017, 09:02 PM
May 2017

but she didn't want to compromise their investigation of Flynn prematurely, so she waited until they had interviewed Flynn in White House (and got him on record lying about his discussion of sanctions with Kislyak and then changing his story) and after that she immediately warned White House. She did not disclose this today but did say she did not compromise the FBI investigation since they had completed their interview with him before she warned White House.

FakeNoose

(32,345 posts)
18. Don't forget that this was all discussed with Obama before the election
Tue May 9, 2017, 10:03 AM
May 2017

Yates and others had convos with Obama before the election. They knew Trump was colluding with the Russians, but maybe not the full extent of it. Obama didn't want to step in and make it seem he was trying to help Hillary win.

Point is, we didn't hear the whole story yesterday, just specific actions Yates took with Trump in the first couple weeks of being POTUS. Yates knew she was on borrowed time, because she would lose her job as soon as Sessions was approved as the new AG.

There's a lot more we haven't heard, yet!




DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
15. There has to be more to this
Mon May 8, 2017, 10:23 PM
May 2017

Remember when Trump was asked about Flynn discussing sanctions with Russian and Trump said that it was ok because had Flynn asked, Trump would have told him to do it? I'm sure Trump wasn't bothered at all because he was ok with what Flynn did. Who cared if Russia could blackmail Flynn since the blackmail would consist of something Trump was already ok with. Whatever the "problematic underlying conduct" is must be a lot more than just a call about lifting sanctions.

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