sen al franken brilliantly connects the dots on russia

so i have been skeptical on the corporate media's constant "RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA".i saw this as a partisan attack on the trump administration and was more a tactic than an actually valid point that exposed a serious breach of national security.i am not going to defend my skepticism,because i felt it warranted considering that with all the hoopla,nobody was providing evidence.

but i have been watching the senate hearings in the case of michael flynn,and the more i watch,the more it is becoming evident that there is indeed,a russian connection,and that flynn most certainly had gone to the russian government and made promises BEFORE trump was elected.

in this clip we can see senator al franken deposing sally yates,former attorney general who was fired for having the audacity to refuse to do trumps bidding.you know..HER FUCKING JOB!

on that note alone i had great respect and admiration for sally yates,but it appears her integrity and moral compass is even greater than i first surmised.she appears to be integral in exposing not only general michael flynns treason,but MANY in the trump administration.

now folks,we have seen over the past few years how those who hold positions of power and wealth are never prosecuted,never indicted and never see the inside of a courtroom.our system of justice has become a two tier system which only punishes the poor and those without the resources to fight prosecution.

but things are not looking good for the trump administration,and if proven that his cabinet and administration colluded with the russian government.there is a high probability of impeachment.

from rawstory:
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) pieced “a puzzle together” on Monday during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, reasoning that Donald Trump may have been so reluctant to fire embattled former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn because other people in his administration similarly colluded with Russian operatives.

“The intelligence communities have concluded, all 17 of them, that Russia interfered with this election, and we all know that’s right,” Franken began during his line of questioning for former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates.

“One of the questions is why do [Russians] favor Donald Trump?” Franken explained, listing of the many connections between Trump campaign and administration officials and Russian operatives, including Jeff Sessions, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, Rex Tillerson, Jared Kusher and Flynn.

“Now, going to Flynn, he appeared during the campaign on Russia Today. Russia Today is the propaganda arm of the Russian government. General, since you’ve retired have you appeared on Russia Today?”

“No, not wittingly, no,” Clapper replied.

“Okay. And Flynn received $37,000 for sitting next to [Russian president Vladimir] Putin at the tenth anniversary of Russia Today. All this seems very odd to me and raised a lot of questions.”

Yates explained that she brought those concerns directly to the Trump administration, which was confused by why it is “an issue for the Department of Justice if one White House official lies to another.”

“Okay, I don’t understand why he didn’t understand that,” Franken said. “General Flynn after that for 18 days stayed [at the White House]. There are policies that deal with who gets clearance, security clearance and not. Executive Order 12986 outlines the rules for security clearances, and it says that when there’s a credible allegation that raises concern about someone’s fitness to access classified information, that person’s clearance should be suspended pending investigation.”

“The executive order also states the clearance holders must always demonstrate, quote, trustworthiness, honesty, reliability, discretion and sound judgement, as well as freedom from allegiances and potential for coercion,” Franken continued. “And yet the White House counsel did not understand why the Department of Justice was concerned? “

“The president was told about this in late January, according to the press secretary, so now he’s got a guy who has been … clearly compromised. He’s lied to the vice president, and [Trump] keeps him on, and he lets him be in all these classified meetings,” Franken continued.

“Is it possible that the reason that he didn’t fire him then was that, well, if I fire him for talking to the Russians about sanctions, what about all the other people on my team who coordinated?” Franken asked

“I mean, isn’t it possible that the reason—because you ask yourselves, why wouldn’t you fire a guy who did this? And all I can think of is that he would say, well, we’ve got all these other people in the administration who have had contacts,” he added. “We have all these other people in the administration who coordinated, who were talking.”

“We’re trying to put a puzzle together here, everybody,” Franken said. “And maybe, just maybe, he didn’t get rid of a guy who lied to the vice president, who got paid by the Russians, who went on Russia Today because there are other people in his administration who met secretly with the Russians and didn’t reveal it until later—until they were caught.”

“That may be why it took him 18 days—until it came public—to get rid of Mike Flynn, who was a danger to this republic,” Franken said.
newtboysays...

Since everyone in his family, and a large percentage of his campaign managers all coordinated with Russia before taking office, and we're recorded illegally making promises to act on Russia's behalf as soon as they took power, he's almost certainly afraid his whole administration will be indicted for treason, a crime that includes the death penalty as a possible sentence. That fear might make even a reasonable person try to hide the crimes, and Trump's no reasonable person. It's surprising he hasn't offered all his staff a preemptive presidential pardon yet, or at least an order to not testify anywhere.

This means, by law, Trump should have his security clearance suspended pending the completion of the investigation, along with his entire staff.

bobknight33says...

OK Flynn lied and also got paid for being RT news. Trump finds out and fires him 3 weeks later. Big whoop.

Liberal witch hunt..
Nothing cam out in the hearing. Grandstanding on both sides.
Hillary did far worse and liberals look the other way.

What fools Democrats are making themselves out to be.

What Flynn actually do:

heropsychosays...

WTF, seriously?!

Dude, Trump was warned by Obama and Yates multiple times not to trust Flynn.

Remember, Trump had the "best people".

Big whoop? And you're talking about this in isolation. His former campaign manager is in deep crap as well for Russian connections. There are lower level people as well connected to the Trump campaign.

This isn't a liberal witch hunt at this point. A special prosecutor independent of the executive must be appointed now. I can't think of a single good reason why there shouldn't be one at this point now that Trump fired the head of the FBI.

This isn't about party. This is about preserving our democracy now.

bobknight33said:

OK Flynn lied and also got paid for being RT news. Trump finds out and fires him 3 weeks later. Big whoop.

Liberal witch hunt..
Nothing cam out in the hearing. Grandstanding on both sides.
Hillary did far worse and liberals look the other way.

What fools Democrats are making themselves out to be.

What Flynn actually do:

enochsays...

@heropsycho
here here..we need a special prosecutor.
i have been fairly reticent jump on board during this whole media circus,not because i am a trump fan,but because i saw no evidence,just conjecture and speculation.which i felt more politically motivated than anything.

now to be honest,there STILL is no HARD evidence,but the circumstantial and political machinations of the trump administration has become increasingly suspect.reminiscent to the nixon administration during the watergate scandal.

could this all just be an innocent mistake,from a bumbling president and an inept staff?

sure..that is a possibility,but with the mounting evidence,and the trump administration continually evading and obfuscating and in some instances,outright blocking any inquiry into the russian connections?

yeah,we need a special prosecutor.

SeesThruYousays...

Please, Al Franken is such a monumental idiot that he can't take a piss without getting some in his mouth. His "explanation" is fictional thinking on an embarrassing level.

newtboysays...

Really?
Then enlighten us..... what's your rational explanation for keeping someone as National Security Advisor who Trump knew is a liar, someone who illegally coordinated with the Russians (on Trump's behalf, recorded but still lied about publicly) before taking office, and worked directly for them repeatedly but neglected to disclose that when asked under oath, (edit:someone so completely unprepared to be a National Security Advisor that he didn't understand that phone calls to and from hostile foreign diplomats are all recorded), and who Trump was aware is vulnerable to Russian blackmail and instead having him keep his security clearance and work with those same Russians for weeks?

SeesThruYousaid:

Please, Al Franken is such a monumental idiot that he can't take a piss without getting some in his mouth. His "explanation" is fictional thinking on an embarrassing level.

bobknight33says...

Yea your right - nothing smarter than a liberal comedy writer pretending to be a politician.
That against a person of critical thought who knows his shit.

Yea your tight.

SaNdMaNsaid:

^ lol @ providing Limbaugh as a source for anything

00Scud00says...

Careful, I hear more truth out of the mouths of liberal comedy writers than our own President on any given day. You know there's something wrong when reality is more twisted than anything the comedians could ever dream up.

bobknight33said:

Yea your right - nothing smarter than a liberal comedy writer pretending to be a politician.
That against a person of critical thought who knows his shit.

Yea your tight.

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