Despite Concerns About Blackmail, Flynn Heard C.I.A. Secrets
Source: nytimes
By MATT APUZZO, MATTHEW ROSENBERG and ADAM GOLDMANJUNE 20, 2017
WASHINGTON Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail.
At the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence agencies responsible for keeping American secrets safe from foreign spies career officials agreed that Mr. Flynn represented an urgent problem.
Yet nearly every day for three weeks, the new C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, sat in the Oval Office and briefed President Trump on the nations most sensitive intelligence with Mr. Flynn listening. Mr. Pompeo has not said whether C.I.A. officials left him in the dark about their views of Mr. Flynn, but one administration official said Mr. Pompeo did not share any concerns about Mr. Flynn with the president.
The episode highlights another remarkable aspect of Mr. Flynns stormy 25-day tenure in the White House: He sat atop a national security apparatus that churned ahead, despite its own conclusion that he was at risk of being compromised by a hostile foreign power.......................
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Maddow just did a good segment on this new story.
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Mike Pompeo, the C.I.A. director, center, at the Capitol to brief members of the House Intelligence Committee last month. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times
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sandensea
(21,635 posts)Doodley
(9,091 posts)mitch96
(13,904 posts)When I heard this I thought this would have been a perfect place to plant a ringer of some disinformation that Pompeo would tell Flynn (unbeknownst to Pompeo, they are spy's after all).
If he WAS feeding info to the Russians, they would hear about it on the other side and confirm the leak.... As to what info or exactly how to do it, i'm clueless but it would make a nice movie in 20 years!!
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lark
(23,099 posts)Drumpf knew about Flynn's contacts because they colluded together. Why would Russia blackmail Flynn, when he per drumpfs commands was already giving Putin everything he wanted? You can bet your bottom dollar, Putin knows everything that Drumpf or Flynn have seen.