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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhoa..Malcolm Nance just said with CONFIDENCE on AM Joy that 1st one to break will be Mike Flynn!
Nance said that James Woolsey has dropped the 'dime' on him.
Flynn is in deep shit for (allegedly) discussing how to kidnap Erdogan foe Fethullah Gulen and fly him back to Turkey.
It's mind-blowing to me, how under every tRump slimy rock that's lifted, there's a criminal creepy-crawlie hiding!
Hang on folks, it's beyond WILD!
klook
(12,134 posts)Now can we get on to the important business of tax cuts for the uber-wealthy?
Hayabusa
(2,135 posts)If not, he could be at the bottom of a river, chilling with Jimmy Hoffa.
brush
(53,467 posts)the way those Russians (8 and counting) connected to this thing keep dropping dead or being dropped from high floors and winding up dead.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)for a 3 star US general to be so corrupt and stoop to serve with such vile people? I would hope that any person with a 3 star general's rank would have great pride and integrity in serving his country and have a moral compass that knows the difference between basic right and wrong. I don't get it.
rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)And we see how THAT is going....
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)Including the military.
Unless they are keeping an eye on him.
They see the danger and instability.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)But, sometimes people just become unhinged and Generals, just like anybody else, aren't immune to mental illness.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,930 posts)To me, it's inconceivable that he would risk the honor and sense of historic achievement that goes with his military accomplishments. But I guess he was dazzled by the $$$$$$$. I can imagine Putin whispering in one ear "they don't appreciate your service" while holding millions of rubles in front of him.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)while he was serving on active duty going through the ranks and enjoying a Swiss Bank account?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)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.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)tomp
(9,512 posts)their job is to advance the cause of the rich internationally by any means necessary, up to and including war. I find it, on the one hand quaint and humorous, and on the other hand, frightening that there are still people who do not realize this, including people in the service themselves. see General Smedley Butler for reference.
unc70
(6,094 posts)Woolsey immediately reported the Flynn-Turkey meeting through a mutual friend to Biden. This was last fall, before the election. Certain that Biden and Obama would have acted on it. Would certainly have justified "wiretapping" Flynn for reasons not connected to Russia. Time to review comments by Comey and others with the perspective that some warrants did not involve Russia.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Intelligence unrelated to Russia that needed the NSA etc to release, and involved trump/team...AND BTW would also be including someone under investigation still at the WH.
unc70
(6,094 posts)The "one person" still under investigation at WH comment was after Flynn had left, so that refers to someone else.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)H2O Man
(73,308 posts)It would have been irresponsible to not keep track of Flynn.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)They may have enough on this rat-bastard, on multiple counts, to put him away for good!
SING Mike...SING!!
tomp
(9,512 posts)H2O Man
(73,308 posts)the deal. His book provided the blueprint for dethroning Trump, and by no coincidence, things are unfolding as he predicted.
Recommended.
global1
(25,166 posts)they can call it 'Malcolm In The Morning'.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)Leghorn21
(13,520 posts)Pat G'Orge-Walker
@PGOrgeWalker
@MalcolmNance ..U C..
How often must I beg you to run for govt?? Obviously your ideas are better than the top dawg has. Shd I get signatures?
11:05 AM - 23 Mar 2017
Malcolm Nance
Mar 23
Wait for it.
@MeatballMom2
Mar 23
awesome idea!!
@briannanichols
Mar 23
I second that. I'd absolutely vote for @MalcolmNance if he ran for office.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)I think Rep. Schiff knows as well.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Damn Mr Nance.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)They just don't come 'more cool' than Malcolm Nance! Gotta' major crush on this guy!
womanofthehills
(8,579 posts)I'm reading his book "The Plot to Hack America".
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)More_Cowbell
(2,190 posts)It might be a reference from more than one thing, but in Lethal Weapon 2 a bad guy puts plastic down before shooting someone. And someone later comes in and looks around for the plastic that would indicate he was about to be shot.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)The plastic sheet keeps your mess from ruining the nice floors.
greenman3610
(3,947 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)or maybe Dexter.
Less mess, easy clean-up, no evidence.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)Raster
(20,996 posts)...cut a deal with him and are wringing him dry even as I type. Flynn knows where the bodies are buried... at least the ones with Manafort's, Stone's and Page's fingerprints on them... BONUS POINTS IF WE CAN FIND A BODY WITH PENCE* PRINTS ALL OVER IT!
librechik
(30,663 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)The FBI/Intel community on one side, Putin on the other.
He needs a food tester, not because I have any pity on him. I just want him to sing before he dies.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)librechik
(30,663 posts)for auto-erotic asphyxiation. I hope Putin never finds out about it.
But I have a nasty imagination.
Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)But strangely apropos, don'tcha think?
gibraltar72
(7,486 posts)RICO first. My understanding is that is way more far reaching. Could scoop up a whole lot more folks.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Including trump should be allowed to leave the country. Maybe we should put ankle bracelets on them.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)The Patriot Act makes things like this, basically legal (as long as it has the veneer of 'national security', it carries with it PLAUSABLE deniability). Cheney said he needed it, Obama said I can be trusted with it. The first was wrong, the second wasn't. But because we BELIVED the first lie, we now get to ask ourselves, on an election by election basis, whether or the second lie can be believed. Trump has proven that it cannot. Those are OUR chickens, and we have to own them.
The REPUBLICAN chickens are also on their way home. If it can be even possibly suggested that extra-judicusously returning this Person to his political enemies was motivated by personal or political gain (instead of a national security concern) then ABUSE of the Patriot Act is about to become seriously non-theroretical, and those Republican birdy-heads are probably headed straight for the Block.
But yeah, if flynn was planning a kidnapping on either Trump or putins recommendation, he will sing like a fucking canary, and immunity or not I'd plan on staying out of tall buildings for a while if I were him.
Just sayin.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Yep, Pooty plays for keeps. What's the tally now for dead guys?
I think Flynn is "dead man walking" no matter where he's at.
Volaris
(10,260 posts)That's why they're wringing him out now, before he can be 'launderd'.
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)will be Carter Page..........he just seems like he'd cave quickly to save his a$$.
radical noodle
(7,990 posts)If you saw him on All In a few weeks ago, he was strangely smirky when talking and had trouble with his answers to questions.
FarPoint
(12,207 posts)My jaw is stuck in wide-open position...
Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Amaryllis
(9,523 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)Putin had a good thing going on but if the US really investigates everything and everyone the US authorities might bring the house down. Then Putin will have to say he overplayed his hand. The only thing helping Putin's spy network stay under-wraps right now are Republicans that are in charge. I'm starting to wonder if some of the people charged to investigate are really part of the spy operation themselves.
MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)has in fact overplayed it's hand. I think Nunes was referring to the "one" person being surveilled in the WH is Pence. I'd give a whole lot to see his crinkly self assured face shoved in the back of an FBI van.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)TIA
CentralMass
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