Mike Flynn Resigns

[RJKarl]

And given that almost all the employees are foreign makes it even easier.

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[EatLeadCommie]

McMaster took the job. Good pick.

 

[wakephan09]

McMaster took the job. Good pick.

He'll soon find himself McServant to the egocentric maniac ruining our beloved country.

 

[Fuck Your Couch]

from what i've seen this is a good pick for the country. he's independent and well regarded, similar to harward. sounds like he can pick his own staff too after losing harward.

 

[PhDeac]

Definitely a good pick if he can pick his own staff.

 

[cville deac]

Does he get to pick his staff? Finally, a reassuring pick. McMaster and Mattis v. the Steves. Hopefully, the former pair wins out.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Don't know much about McMaster but from everything I've read he sounds like a good pick and a major upgrade over Moscow Mike.

 

[Newenglanddeac]

Choice of McMaster likely to quell GOP hawks

The new national security adviser is a 'warrior-scholar' who has staked out a decidedly more hawkish position on Russia and gone out of his way to assert that the war against terrorism must not be morph in a war against Islam.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-mcmaster-national-security-235213

 

[WakeForestRanger]

 

[WakeForestRanger]

Flynn received an additional $11,250 payment in October 2015 from the subsidiary of a Russian company specializing in “uncovering Western government spyware,” Kaspersky Lab. Its founder, Eugene Kaspersky, denies that it has stocked the firm with those with close ties to Russian intelligence.

Flynn, who served as the director of Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 until he was fired from the job in 2014, still had a top-level national security clearance when he performed the work in 2015. That security clearance was suspended last month, pending further review.

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/324322-flynn-worked-for-multiple-russian-firms

 

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[Newenglanddeac]

Michael Flynn Failed to Disclose Payments From Russian Propaganda Network

Former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn initially failed to inform federal ethics officials of payments from a state-sponsored Russian propaganda outfit, according to newly released documents.
Flynn, who left his White House post after less than a month, submitted a financial disclosure form in February that made no mention of a reported $45,000 payment from Russia Today, or RT, for a speech that Flynn gave at the network’s 10th anniversary gala.
In an amended disclosure statement filed with the White House counsel’s office on Friday, Flynn disclosed receiving more than $5,000 (the threshold for reporting) from RT.

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In addition to RT, Flynn’s amended disclosure statement reveals payments for speeches to two additional Russian companies, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky and Volga Dnepr Airlines. Neither of those payments was disclosed in Flynn’s initial ethics filing.
The White House reported receiving the amended filing on Friday, the same day that it publicly released disclosure statements for more than a hundred executive branch officials in a large evening document dump.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...payments-from-russian-propaganda-network.html

 

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[ChrisL68]

Is that the event where he was sitting at Putin's table along with Jill Stein? Putin and his useful idiots.

 

[avalon]

Mike Flynn’s Pro-Turkey Work: An Unfinished Documentary to Boost Country’s Image

As the documentary plans moved ahead last fall, Mr. Enders said that Mr. Kian told him he didn’t want anyone to know who was behind the film about Mr. Gulen, whom Mr. Erdogan wants the U.S. to extradite to Turkey to face accusations he runs a terrorist group behind last summer’s failed coup.

“Bijan said they did not want to be connected to this in any way,” Mr. Enders said. “He said: ‘We don’t want anyone to know the Flynn Intel Group has anything to do with this.’ ” Mr. Enders said Mr. Kian didn’t explain his reasons.

The project began last summer, after Mr. Erdogan quashed a poorly conceived July 15 military coup attempt. A few weeks later, Ekim Alptekin, a Turkish businessman and Erdogan defender, signed a three-month contract with the Flynn Intel Group to help Turkish interests.

Mr. Alptekin, head of a Netherlands-based consulting firm called Inovo BV, and chairman of the Turkey-U.S. Business Council, a group that promotes business between the two countries, said he wanted to use the documentary to help expose America to the dangers of Mr. Gulen.

“We were thinking of a small, ‘60 Minutes’ kind of a thing, where these conclusions are brought to the public,” Mr. Alptekin told the Journal. “We thought that might have a good effect.”

 

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