I think. What does this mean?

That's what a "registered agent" is, I believe. Someone who is designated in another jurisdiction to receive legal papers being served on you.

So if someone wanted to send Turkey a legal notice, they could have a constable serve it on Flynn here in the states, and boom...Turkey is considered by the Courts as having been legally served.

Not sure that's meaningful. Is that a big deal? Because of the connection with Turkey? Turkey is a U.S. ally.

what I described. Every corporation has in its corporate papers filed with the Sec of State a "registered agent." That's a person that the corporation has designated as the official person to serve legal papers on, when serving the corporation.

A corporation has a registered agent in every state it does business in. It can be anyone. It's usually a lawyer or the company's in-house counsel.

So that's a recognized term in America.

But if he's something else....there may be a different definition for a foreign country.

It could also just mean that he's registered, which just means his name is on file somewhere, but not a "registered agent."

So that when the amount he was paid comes out, he isn't accused of acceptance of bribes.
So in being a lobbyist for any other country, he is a traitor to ours.

he is admitting to being a lobbyist for a foreign government. It is legal to do so, if and only if you register with the State Dept as such. To be acting as an undisclosed lobbyist for a foreign government, while working for a Presidential campaign is a bit much - not to mention illegal.

while being..or having been, an agent of another country.

and what about the that now well known dinner he had in Moscow where he was paid ?

Daily Kos said:
"the Constitution prohibits any person “holding any Office of Profit or Trust” from accepting gifts or payments from any foreign country. The Defense Department has made clear this restriction applies to retired military officers, who continue to hold offices of trust."
So he got paid by both Turkey AND Russia?????

Although he'll go to his grave never admitting. Because...he never does anything wrong! And he's the BEST at choosing National Security directors and advisors! Everyone says he's the best!

They are showing no loyalty to America. Isn't there at least one Republican who will place the USA above their own freaking degenerate GOP?

Maybe best thing to do is take a pitch-fork to the haystack.

What the hell is going on? Have we been taken over by foreign agents?

and receiving money from them

this wouldn't be tolerated. It would be an automatic disqualifier.

in that work.

by going back and revising the record of his Senate testimony after he was caught lying? I didn't know you could do that, either!

I saw that.

Damn

I know he is retired but he is still subject to the UCMJ.

RT reported a WIKIleak email dump 20 some minutes before the email dump happened.

As soon as Flynn was known to be with the Trumpy team, reports were flying around everywhere that Flynn was on contract with the government of Turkey-- that he was an agent for Turkey. This is NOT a revelation.

Flynn actually filing (retroactively) as a 'foreign agent", admitting that he was a paid lobbyist for a foreign government..

Also, I didn't post this in 'Breaking News', I posted it here in 'General Discussion'. What is your problem with the OP?

This is the appropriate forum for his post, a link to a current show.

I had read about this online a while back.

Elijah Cummings even wrote a letter to VP Pence and transition team expressing concern about possible conflicts of interest.

So Spicer today was not accurate and making up BS saying that Trump & Co didn't know anything about this before now

This other thread shows timeline of press reports back in Nov and Dec, and Cummings' letter:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028772852

Un.fucking.Real

down for the laypeople ( like me).
Good grief...just can't keep up with all this shit.

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is a United States law (22 U.S.C. § 611 et seq.) passed in 1938 requiring that agents representing the interests of foreign powers in a "political or quasi-political capacity" disclose their relationship with the foreign government and information about related activities and finances. (1)

Flynn was a member of Trump's campaign, was the front-runner to be named Trump's National Security Adviser, and received classified briefings. At the same time he and/or his company were being paid by a 'Turkish Company' to 'lobby for Turkish interests'. That made him a 'Foreign Agent' under the above act and required that he disclose such.

Today he finally filed the required paperwork to retroactively register as a Foreign Agent.

The White House claims that Trump was not aware of Flynn's contract with Turkey, which is a demonstrably false claim (2).

It is a big deal because a) Flynn was breaking the law, b) he had an obvious conflict of interest, and he didn't bother to admit it until after he was fired as National Security Adviser, and c) because Trump is still lying to the American public.



(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Act
(2) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028772852

thank-you for your patience with me!

Link to tweet

If Obama had pulled something like this, they wouldn't have impeached him.


They'd have assassinated him.