Whoa..Malcolm Nance just said with CONFIDENCE on AM Joy that 1st one to break will be Mike Flynn!

[Hekate]

49. There are many paths to corruption, and they all start with "just a little won't hurt."

The classic temptation scenes in literature are often presented as a psychological seduction, a slow manipulation. Almost no one just wakes up one morning and says, "By golly, today is the day I sell out my nation." It takes some persuasion.

Flynn has a lot of resentment in him -- wasn't he passed over for a promotion and/or let go from his last job for not being a good manager? That's certainly something a spymaster could work with.

Look at all the Americans getting paid to appear on RT. Was Larry King the first? Good old Larry. They gave him a show. The Cold War is over, and our two countries are not enemies any more. So Thom Hartmann went over, and took their money. RT has by now collected a number of American Progressives, Greens, and Populists, and they all take money from the State-owned propaganda outlet of the former Soviet Union. No harm done, amirite? They don't write my scripts! Communism is dead; long live the oligarchy!

Except the harm done is they have become beards, unwitting or not, for Putin, who is a genuine enemy of ours -- and if they can't see that by now it says something very sad about people who used to be admired by the American Left.

As for General Flynn, who will be stripped of his rank and pension before this is all over, who knows what the beginning was, except resentment and anger no doubt played a part. Putin arranged for him to get "speaker's fees" -- and the general knew that was verboten. What went on before that we will no doubt find out some day, just as we are now finding out what happened after he really fell into the pit of corruption, ie, working with the Turks on a kidnap-murder.

So many paths. Power is a classic. In the myth of Jesus, Satan tempts him with the power -- to do good. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Jesus declined the offer.