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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 01:09 PM Mar 2017

Flynn was working for every russian concern he could - WSJ

Are we sure this guy is even American and not a complete Russian plant.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/mike-flynn-worked-for-other-russian-companies-besides-rt-documents-1489683618

President Trump’s former national security adviser, Mike Flynn, was paid tens of thousands of dollars by Russian companies shortly before he became a formal adviser to the then-candidate, according to documents obtained by a congressional oversight committee that revealed business interests that hadn’t been previously known.

Mr. Flynn was paid $11,250 each by a Russian air cargo company that had been suspended as a vendor to the United Nations following a corruption scandal, and by a Russian cybersecurity company that was then trying to expand its business with the U.S. government.

Those engagements took place in the summer and fall of 2015, a year after he had been fired as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and while he continued to maintain a top-secret level security clearance.

In December 2015, the Kremlin-backed news organization RT also paid Mr. Flynn $33,750 to speak about U.S. foreign policy and intelligence matters at a conference in Moscow.

In February 2016, Mr. Flynn became an official adviser to the presidential campaign of Mr. Trump, who was taking a softer stance toward Moscow than his Republican rivals at the time.

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Flynn was working for every russian concern he could - WSJ (Original Post) sunonmars Mar 2017 OP
Consider the damage he might have done matt819 Mar 2017 #1
He's like a character out of "The Americans", a complete russian planted in US society sunonmars Mar 2017 #2

matt819

(10,749 posts)
1. Consider the damage he might have done
Thu Mar 16, 2017, 01:21 PM
Mar 2017

if he were a Russian agent before he became head of the NSA and DIA.

This guy's entire career needs to be tracked back.

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