Why Was the FBI Investigating General Flynn?

[GURPS]

Why Was the FBI Investigating General Flynn?


We are told that the FBI was monitoring the phone calls of Russian ambassador Kislyak under FISA. Makes sense — he’s an overt foreign agent from a hostile government. Flynn called Kislyak on December 29, 2016. It was not a nefarious communication: Flynn was a top adviser of then-president-elect Trump, a part of the Trump transition team, and just three weeks from formally becoming the new president’s national-security adviser. His communications with Kislyak were just some of the many conversations Flynn was having with foreign officials.

The call to Kislyak, of course, was intercepted. No doubt the calls of other American officials who have perfectly valid reasons to call Russian diplomats have been intercepted. It is the FBI’s scrupulous practice to keep the identities of such interceptees confidential. So why single Flynn out for identification, and for investigation? FBI agents did not need to “grill” Flynn in order to learn about the call — they had a recording of the call.

They also knew there was nothing untoward about the call. We know that from the Times report — a report that suggests an unseemly conjoining of investigative power to partisan politics.

The report informs us that as the FBI set its sights on Flynn, its agents were consulting with “Obama advisers.” Interesting, no? Ever since Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump on November 8, Obama’s Democratic party had been pushing a narrative that “Putin hacked the election.” The narrative continues to have two major flaws. First, while the Russian dictator may have preferred Trump to Clinton, there is no evidence that his Russian regime did anything to compromise the voting process. The media-Democrat complex has desperately sought to obscure this problem by emphasizing Putin’s likely role in publicizing embarrassing Democratic e-mail communications. Notwithstanding Democratic talking points, that is a far cry from “hacking” the voting process.

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Asked not to be named discussing delicate communications. That’s a good one. Let me translate: The officials don’t want you to know who they are because they are corrupt — (a) FISA intercepts are classified, so disclosing them to the press is a crime; (b) by revealing the Flynn–Kislyak conversation to the press, the “officials” inform the Russians that whatever countermeasures they are taking against U.S. surveillance have failed, assuring that the Russians will alter their tactics, making the job of our honorable intelligence agents more difficult; and (c) the FBI’s investigative powers are not supposed to be put in in the service of a political party’s effort to advance a partisan storyline, like “Putin hacked the election.”

so thanks to leaks and partisan gotcha politics from FBI Sources .... the Russians now know their security measures have been compromised

 

[tommyjo]

That's a really dumb article.

First, Mr. Flynn wasn't "an American official" when he made the call. He was a private citizen.

Second, you don't know all the FBI does...you don't know what the FBI asked Mr. Flynn...and if they only know and only asked about this one call...Mr. Flynn didn't seem to know it was being monitored...so he could have or may have lied to the FBI about the content of the call.

Third...your personal commentary is just as dumb as the article's. You don't have any idea what the Russian's know or didn't know. They could have known very well that call would be intercepted and their guy talked in the hopes of getting rid of Flynn.

Naturally none of the above ever crossed your mind...

 

[GURPS]

You don't have any idea what the Russian's know or didn't know.

Well ToJAM, the Russians Certainly know now .... why would the Russians be out to sandbag Flynn :shrug:


something you want to share or are you pissing in the wind again

 

[Lurk]

That's a really dumb article..

Read: "I didn't read the article, too long for my measly attention span."