DEVELOPING: Declassified Rice email documenting WH meeting 1/5/2017 obtained @CBSNews pic.twitter.com/uA9V9oo4n4— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) May 19, 2020
Daily Mail: FBI chief James Comey warned Barack Obama that Mike Flynn might pass classified secrets to Russia's ambassador during 'unusual communications,' declassified email reveals
* Acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell declassified the email
* Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice emailed it to herself her last day at work
* Comey told Obama he was acting 'by the book'
* Comey expressed 'concerns' that incoming national security advisor Mike Flynn 'is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak'
* Comey warned: 'the level of communication is unusual'
* Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Kislyak
Former FBI Director James Comey warned President Barack Obama of the potential incoming national security advisor Mike Flynn might pass information to the Russians, according to a newly declassified memo.
The memo, which outgoing national security advisor Susan Rice sent to herself on her final day in office, memorializes a White House meeting several days earlier where Obama and top officials discussed potential risks posed by Flynn.
A portion of the document formerly classified as 'Top Secret' has now been revealed.
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WNU Editor: A Special Counsel will need to be appointed to investigate this travesty. Former FBI Director Comey says he was "acting by the book". I disagree. Nothing was done "by the book" by the former FBI Director or anyone else on this case. What we have are senior officials from the previous administration plotting on how to interfere in the operations of an incoming new administration. With no evidence to justify their case, they targeted people like Michael Flynn, and because of it were successful in derailing President Trump's first term. And in case anyone notices. In the middle of all of this was President Obama.
Update: Read the email here .... READ: Susan Rice's email discussing Michael Flynn and Russia (The Hill).
Update #2: Defenders of President Obama are saying that this email absolves the former President because he told the former FBI Director to do "everything by the book" .... Commentators explain how newly declassified Susan Rice email deals a blow to Trump’s ‘Obamagate’ conspiracy theory (Raw Story). I say the opposite. There is no "going by the book" in such a case. Unless targeting your political opponent and disrupting his transition team is "going by the book". Bottom line. What this email confirms to me is that former President Obama was fully aware on what was happening, he was determine to undermine the incoming administration by targeting key people like Michael Flynn, and it was the FBI that was going to do his "dirty work".
Update #3: There are inconsistencies in Susan Rice's email. The biggest one being that Susan Rice is saying that she was in the Oval Office meeting where the case of Michael Flynn was discussed. But according to sworn testimony from Sally Yates, she was not .... Larry C. Johnson: How Can Susan Rice Know What Obama and Comey Said if Sally Yates Says She Was Not Present? (The Gateway Pundit).
More News On Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice Declassified Email
Trump administration declassifies full Susan Rice email sent on Inauguration Day -- Politico
Declassified Susan Rice email shows Comey suggested 'sensitive' info on Russia not be shared with Flynn -- FOX News
FBI Director James Comey Worried About Sharing Classified Russia Information With Michael Flynn Due to His Frequent Calls With Ambassador, Email Shows -- Newsweek
Declassified Susan Rice Email Shows Comey Had ‘No Indication’ Flynn Passed Classified Info to Russian Ambassador -- National Review
Democrats are exposing themselves in Michael Flynn case: Devine -- Miranda Devine, NYPost
Susan Rice ’email to self’ Reveals Extent Of Obama’s Role In FBI Russia Probe -- Sara Carter
COMEY urged probe into Flynn by misrepresenting Russian contacts, declassified memo shows -- RT
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This is brilliant. I have my popcorn. Unleash the hounds. Vote Republican heh heh heh 🖖😇
What a crook.. someone who has to constantly remind herself in writing to execute law "by the book".. please.. pathetic kindergarden level liar got caught.. on CNN: crickets. Freaking traitors to this nation!
The email is from January 20th, inauguration day.
Observation:
Obama and his lieutenants spent more time looking how to get Trump and Flynn than they put in hours for the presidential transition.
They do not care about enfranchisement. All The Left wants is power.
Read properly: warning about Flynn and his Russian connections
No kidding, anon 8:56AM. MSNBC level fluff by 8:37AM. Pathetic attempt.
In a never-ending bid to distract from Trump’s disastrous performance on COVID, the Trump Administration has now released the full letter, which reads this way:
On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Corney and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present.
President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.
Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding “by the book” as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing information. President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied, “potentially.” He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that “the level of communication is unusual.”
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.
The italicized passage is new. It reveals that Flynn was speaking to Kislyak “frequently,” a comment which is consistent with Sally Yates’ concern about the “back and forth” between Kislyak in which Flynn was making “specific asks.” Some of those specific asks Yates described in her Mueller interview remain redacted (as are the transcripts of Flynn’s calls with Kislyak themselves).
In DOJ’s motion to dismiss Flynn’s prosecution, they argue that Flynn’s calls were routine calls made to “build relationships.”
Such calls are not uncommon when incumbent public officials preparing for their oncoming duties seek to begin and build relationships with soon-to-be counterparts.
But the motion addresses only a subset of calls, not (for example) the face-to-face meeting with Kislyak on December 1, or calls Flynn made during the election (his 302 mentions one he made in January 2016, at a time he claimed not to be working with Trump, but there are reports there were more).
11:06 AM
Nice try there. This a is distraction from Trump's COVID response? Really? You mean this "distraction" that consumed and occupied minds like yours 24/7/365 for four years? This "distraction" that derailed an entire government and destroyed innocent people? You mean this distraction that Trump was dealing with the same day Pelosi was ripping up SOTU speeches?
Sorry dude - after a failed coup based on a fake scandal, you don't get to "just move on". Obama ordered the FBI to spy on a Trump's political campaign. Obama weaponized the IRS to target conservative PACs. Obama funneled thousands of arms into northern Mexico to foment gun violence as a sub rosa attempt to infringe on 2A. Obama and his cronies make Nixon look ethical. In fact Obama actually did everything Nixon was accused of.
So if you want to obsess on Trump's actions during the Wuhan pandemic, taker a gander at what your Democrats were busying themselves with at its outset. The timelines are all there. It was all impeachment-all the time as the virus was taking hold. They totally ignored it. Then Gov Coumo and his incompetence cost the lives of 6,000 seniors by forcing infected patience into nursing homes. Same with the Dem governor of PA. In fact, if you take the total deaths just in NY, MA, IL, and PA you have fully half the fatalities in the whole nation right there. All Democrat run states. (read incompetent)
It was a distraction - to the vicious petty Democrats and their seditious failed coup. I'll enjoy watching treasonous scum backstab one another as they twist in the wind.
So kindly shut your rote, libelous gob about Trump's "never-ending bid to distract from his disastrous performance on COVID".
Are you really serious? You call this evidence? This post is from a clerk, most likely the clerk. Why are you wasting people's time?
When are you going to take your own advice?
11:06 post was from the GD clerk.
Clerk is well versed in wasting people's time. It wasted student's time in the class room and professor's time in the conference room.
Nothing new under the sun.
The now-fired State Department inspector general had recently wrapped up an investigation into two other top aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, determining that they had likely failed to report allegations of workplace violence, a person familiar with the issue told POLITICO.
The probe into Cam Henderson, who leads the department’s Office of Protocol, and a deputy of hers, Mary-Kate Fisher, could have been another factor in what Pompeo and his deputies have described as mounting frustration with the inspector general, Steve Linick, and might have contributed to the secretary’s push to oust him.
The Pompeos worked closely with the Office of Protocol on a series of intimate, hush-hush dinners that featured influential conservatives, administration officials and Wall Street financiers in what some critics have viewed as the improper use of taxpayer dollars.
In a tweet Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed the state was sending ballots, not ballot applications, and said its federal funding was at risk. The president wrote: "I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!" (He later deleted his original tweet and reposted, correctly writing the second time that it was absentee ballot applications that were to be sent out.)
Michigan sends absentee ballot applications to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 20, 2020
In a subsequent tweet, Trump made a similar threat to Nevada, which is mailing absentee ballots to all active registered voters for the state's June 9 primary — an all-mail election.
Even putting aside the likely unconstitutionality of the president conditioning aid to states upon acceding to his political demands, Trump’s unsupported claims are exceedingly troubling because they seek to cast doubt on the legitimacy and fairness of the upcoming elections without reason. Trump may not realize it, but they are also politically counterproductive for him: Rural Republican voters, even in blue states, may be the ones most hurt in November by attacks on mail-in balloting.
Let’s start with the facts. On Michigan, Trump wrote: “Breaking: Michigan sends absentee ballots to 7.7 million people ahead of Primaries and the General Election. This was done illegally and without authorization by a rogue Secretary of State. I will ask to hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!.” On Nevada, he wrote: “State of Nevada ‘thinks’ that they can send out illegal vote by mail ballots, creating a great Voter Fraud scenario for the State and the U.S. They can’t! If they do, ‘I think’ I can hold up funds to the State. Sorry, but you must not cheat in elections.”
But Michigan is not sending absentee ballots to all 7.7 million registered voters in the state, as Trump’s claim suggests. Instead, as Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson explained, officials are sending absentee ballot applications to voters. These forms have to be filled out and sent back to election officials, who verify that these voters are, indeed, eligible to obtain ballots. Republican election officials in states such as Iowa and Nebraska have done the same thing.
Up to now, Trump's best move to enforce loyalty in his base has been to subject anyone stepping out of line to a Twitter rant while also boasting about his high level of support among Republicans - even to the point of exaggeration.
He once claimed to be the most popular Republican president in history. That is not true.
What is true is that he is very popular among Republicans. Polling often shows him in the vicinity of 90 percent approval from GOP voters. He dotes on TV ratings and popularity in the GOP to drown out dissenting voices.
But now there is a platform for just such dissent.
It comes in the form of an ad created by The Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans acting in defiance of the enforced loyalty holding together the Party of Trump.
The ad begins by showing how Trump "ignored" the coronavirus, which has now killed more than 80,000 Americans, and left "the economy in shambles [and] more than 26 million Americans" out of work.
"There's mourning in America and under the leadership of Donald Trump, our country is weaker, and sicker, and poorer," the ad intones.
The one-minute ad has over 2.3 million views on YouTube alone.
The Lincoln Project raised more than $2 million the week after the ad aired, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The President's harsh and often baseless criticism of vote-by-mail is significantly ratcheting up as more and more states loosen their vote-by-mail restrictions proactively or on court orders.
The latest: Texas, where a federal judge ruled on Tuesday that all voters can request an absentee ballot if they fear contracting the coronavirus by going to the polls in person, dealing a blow to Republicans in the state who had argued against sending ballots for that reason.
Federal judge rules Texans afraid of catching Covid-19 can vote by mail
And in Michigan, the state's Democratic secretary of state said this week that all eligible voters would be mailed an absentee ballot application ahead of the November general election. Michigan is one of dozens of states that allow voters to cast their ballot by mail for any reason and it is a key swing state in the November presidential election.
In his tweet Wednesday morning, Trump falsely claimed Michigan would send absentee ballots to 7.7 million voters. But he also threatened to "hold up funding to Michigan if they want to go down this Voter Fraud path!" Trump several hours later deleted the tweet and sent a new one that correctly described Michigan's absentee ballot initiative.
States have the legal authority to make changes to their elections, and Republicans have repeatedly opposed federal intervention in the administration of elections by the states.
Samuel Bagenstos, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Michigan Law School who has written extensively about federal government's power to impose conditions on states' receipt of federal funds, said Trump does not have the authority to unilaterally hold up federal funding to the states.
"It's pretty clearly not a thing that he's allowed to do," Bagenstos said. "The President doesn't just get to decide that he's not going to spend appropriated funds because he doesn't like what states are doing."
"The federal government can impose conditions on states who receive federal funds but it's Congress wh
To answer all these ahem posts; again they are full of conditionals, you should be ashamed of yourself, but you never have been have you?
Still can't find that male student's phone number can you?
Come on post some more I enjoy each and every one of them.
Former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice has called for the Trump administration to release transcripts of phone calls between Michael Flynn, her successor under President Trump, and then-Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak.
Rice, through a spokeswoman, renewed her call for the transcripts to be publicly released after acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell declassified an email Rice sent to herself documenting a meeting in January 2017 about Flynn's contacts with Kislyak.
“In the interest of transparency, Ambassador Rice again calls upon the Director of National Intelligence to release the unredacted transcripts of all Kislyak-Flynn calls,” spokeswoman Erin Pelton said in a statement on behalf of Rice. “The American people deserve the full transcripts so they can judge for themselves Michael Flynn’s conduct.”
A senior FEMA administration official said on an interagency call that the Trump administration will allow the deployment of the workers, who have been helping states to test residents and trace the spread of the virus, to expire on June 24, 2020.
The decision would leave many workers one day short of the 90 days of emergency service needed to move up their retirement by three months and get 40% off tuition at public colleges and universities.
A National Guard spokesperson told Politico that a decision to extend the deployment could still be made in the next few weeks.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers warned the administration in a letter in April that ending the deployments too early “could contribute to a possible second wave of infection.”
The tapes released in Kyiv offered no evidence to back Giuliani’s long-standing accusation that Biden pushed for the prosecutor general’s ouster to help his son. At the time, Hunter Biden was earning between $50,000 and $100,000 a month on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, whose owner, a former government minister, was under investigation in Ukraine. Still, the tapes gave Trump’s allies a chance to recycle that allegation closer to the 2020 election.
The Biden campaign viewed the release of the tapes as a continuation of a long-standing Russian effort to hurt the former vice president, pointing to the role that RT, the Russian state-controlled news network, played in promoting the tapes and noting Derkach’s ties to Russian interests.
“They heavily edited this, and it’s still a nothingburger that landed with a thud,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said.
As with Trump’s efforts regarding Ukraine last year, which included pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son, Biden’s circle reiterated how consistent the conversations on the tapes were with official U.S. and European policy at the time and with what Biden and Poroshenko have both said publicly since.
The release of the tape fragments by Derkach is a Russian provocation designed to tarnish Ukraine and drag the country artificially into the U.S. presidential campaign, Poroshenko’s political party, European Solidarity, said in a statement to Channel 5, the Ukrainian television network he owns. The party said it was an attempt to ruin the support Ukraine enjoys in the United States.
The clips released in Kyiv consisted of conversations that Biden had as vice president with Poroshenko, primarily about domestic Ukrainian political issues. At the time, Biden was the face of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, demanding as a matter of policy that the government make reforms to end corruption if it wanted to continue to receive billions of dollars in Western aid and loan guarantees.
When are you going to provide evidence? This is just like what you claim for your private life alot of (again) claims with not a shred of evidence. Where's that DD-214?
So it’s just the autistic cut/paste douchebag again? I was hoping for someone interesting.
I don't think autistic cut/paste douchebag has gone senile like Slow Joe, I think he is near peak condition that he was 3 to 5 decades ago.
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