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Jimbo101

(776 posts)
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 03:48 PM Feb 2017

Again We Ask - Who Gave Flynn the Orders to Talk to Russia?

New Yorker

Even before Flynn’s rapid fall, his closest military colleagues had been struggling to make sense of what had happened to the talented and grounded general they once knew… Some of Flynn’s former military colleagues, even those from whom he’s drifted apart in recent years, told me they were skeptical that Flynn would have conducted shadow diplomacy on his own. Despite his reputation as an agitator, he was, in the end, a soldier who followed orders, they said.

Said one intelligence official: “This story is bigger than Mike Flynn. Who told Mike to go do this? I think somebody said, ‘Mike, you’ve got some contacts. Let them know it’s gonna be all right.’ Mike’s a soldier. He did not go rogue.’”
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wishstar

(5,268 posts)
2. Bannon calls the shots and made sure Trump said what Flynn did wasn't wrong
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 04:42 PM
Feb 2017

" I didn’t direct him ― but I would have directed him, because that’s his job,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House.

”What he did wasn’t wrong,” the president added. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-michael-flynn-russia_us_58a5eefde4b037d17d25d8e8



Seems very clear that if Trump didn't direct him, Bannon must have with Trump's approval

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
4. He was THE National Security Advisor - does he need orders? He was talking to Russia for years.
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 05:16 PM
Feb 2017

as a General, as a civilian, why would someone have to tell him to do his job?

spanone

(135,816 posts)
6. on THE day Obama placed the sanctions on russia and closed russian compounds
Sat Feb 18, 2017, 05:20 PM
Feb 2017

no coincidences in politics

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