Its Official: The CIA and DOJ Believe Trumps Team Is Under Russian Blackmail

[mfcorey1]

Before being fired last month by President Trump, then acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned the White House that national security adviser Michel Flynn was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

It is now believed that Flynn communicated with not only Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, but other Russian officials inside the Kremlin including President Vladimir Putin to discuss the possibly lifting sanctions against Russia imposed by former president Barack Obama.

When questioned, Flynn told Vice President Mike Pence that they did not discuss the Obama administration’s sanctions against Russia. This is now confirmed by multiple sources to be untrue as evidence suggests that Flynn likely made promises that Trump would quickly review the sanctions. It was later discovered that Flynn even used encryption technology for some of his communications.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/02/14/official-cia-doj-believe-trumps-team-russian-blackmail/

[sunonmars]

1. The rollercoaster is about to fly off the rails.

[elmac]

2. So, is President Putin our 46th President or 45th?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Pence was informed of Flynn's crime & lying in late January. Purge Pence FIRST, then tRump

Last edited Tue Feb 14, 2017, 09:57 PM - Edit history (1)

Purge Pence and then impeach tRump. Otherwise we might be stuck with Pence with Republicon majorities for a long time.

On edit: I may have misread reports of when Pence was informed.

[central scrutinizer]

12. Presidential succession

After VP is president of the Senate, then speaker of the House

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Not in this case. The President appoints. Ryan won't accept.

Section 2 of Amendment 25 of the US Constitution:

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

And you are confused. The Vice President IS the President of the Senate -- one and the same.

Ryan wants to go for 2024, if he is smart and he usually is, despite looks and his Randite obsession. He doesn't want to be Gerald Ford in 2020.

On October 10, 1973, Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned and then pleaded no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering, part of a negotiated resolution to a scheme in which he accepted $29,500 in bribes while governor of Maryland. According to The New York Times, Nixon "sought advice from senior Congressional leaders about a replacement. The advice was unanimous. 'We gave Nixon no choice but Ford,' House Speaker Carl Albert recalled later".[30]

Ford was nominated to take Agnew's position on October 12, the first time the vice-presidential vacancy provision of the 25th Amendment had been implemented. The United States Senate voted 92 to 3 to confirm Ford on November 27. Only three Senators, all Democrats, voted against Ford's confirmation: Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and William Hathaway of Maine. On December 6, 1973, the House confirmed Ford by a vote of 387 to 35. One hour after the confirmation vote in the House, Ford took the oath of office as Vice President of the United States. -- Wikipedia

[Sancho]

4. Lock them up!! (spread the word)...

Trump, Flynn, all of them...

[NewJeffCT]

5. Don't worry, though, Rep. Jason Chaffetz

is all over Sid the Science Kid!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/instead-of-probing-trump-chaffetz-takes-aim-at-a-cartoon-preschooler/2017/02/13/7e74e63c-f232-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.08ccbce06c72

[jmg257]

6. Now Flynn is gone...so key is, is anyone else on the team being blackmailed?

[BSdetect]

7. Ryan and McConnell knew the facts re Flynn and did SFA to investigate

They are all guilty.

[former9thward]

8. If you follow the link at the OP

and follow the links inside of that there is absolutely nothing that supports the headline.

[Orsino]

10. Yep. Gives to airy nothingness a local habitation and a name...

...but offers no news, and little of substance or "official."

[BannonsLiver]

11. Occupy Dems is fake news for the left

I got hopeful reading the OP's title then clicked and realized it was from Occupy Dems. Very disappointing.

[Gothmog]

9. Putin can blackmail trump at any time