Michael Flynn

Big Interest In Flynn From House Intelligence

... for Comey on Flynn's interactions - including Flynn's lobbying for foreign governments. Comey repeatedly told Sewell, "I can't comment on that.". Republicans, meanwhile, have said they would like to hear from Flynn, but for a very different reason: They want to know who leaked transcripts of his conversations with Kislyak and ultimately "unmasked" Flynn as a subject in the collection of surveillance. At one point in Monday's hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, asked Comey, "Did you brief President (Barack) Obama on any calls involving Michael Flynn?". Comey said he could not answer that question. Speier told CNN, "There's already an agreement that Michael Flynn is going to come before the committee.". But Schiff and Nunes both disputed that statement, saying nothing has been worked out yet. "I would certainly like to have Flynn come in, but I haven't talked to the chairman about dates or witness order or any of those issues yet," Schiff told CNN. A committee source explained that bringing Flynn would likely require a subpoena and, even then, may not be successful in getting any ...

Oversight Committee Seeks Documents On Michael Flynn’s Foreign Business Connections

... period. Flynn became the shortest-serving national security adviser in history when Trump fired him after just 24 days on the job. And after he was fired, Flynn retroactively registered with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent  because he had done work for a Turkish businessman before the election. Flynn said he registered to be cautious, apparently believing that his brief public relations work could have been benefitted the Turkish government rather than a private businessman. The Washington Post via Getty Images. Michael Flynn, who at the time was the national security adviser, speaks during a daily news briefing at the White House on Feb. 1. The House Oversight & Government Reform Committee has asked for the Trump administration to turn over information pertaining to Flynn having received payments from foreign sources. Anyone seeking the national security ...

Hey, Why Is The National Enquirer Saying That Michael Flynn Is A Russian Spy

... a de facto “mouthpiece” of the Trump White House. As Shafer notes, business has been good, for both sides. As a business move, the tabloids’ Trumpian turn appears to have worked: Pecker says the “pro-Trump and anti-Hillary” covers do 23 percent better on the newsstand for the Enquirer. As a journalistic move—and yes, you can call the Enquirer journalism—there’s something bigger going on. Overtly partisan coverage is hardly noteworthy in 2016. What is noteworthy is the kind of partisanship the tabloids have exhibited. Their attacks on Trump’s opponents have been, no other word for it, propagandistic in their approach: They’ve followed his lead in constructing blatantly false or half-true assertions and circulating them in banner headlines. So what’s very, very curious here is how Flynn has suddenly become a Trump opponent, perhaps not coincidentally one day after Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the Democrat’s ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee told CNN that he had been “ presented with new evidence on collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia.” (That disclosure, of course, came ...

Michael Flynn Has A Whole Lot Of Questions To Answer

... and incompetent President Trump’s operation has been. “The issue here is the haphazard nature of the campaign and the campaign organization,” former CIA director Michael V. Hayden tells me. “There does not appear to have been any kind of vetting process or rules-setting or filtering or even just asking people straight-up questions. And then people just seemed to slip in and out of the campaign organization, folks like Rogers Stone or Carter Page.” He added, “The approach could work for a family business, I suppose, but it’s not a good formula for a campaign, and it’s even worse for an administration.”. Former ambassador Eric Edelman is likewise incredulous. Via email he asks rhetorically, “How could this not have been revealed in whatever vetting the Trump Transition did on Flynn for NSA.?”. Well, that is one of many questions that need to be answered. Unfortunately, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, seems more ...

Michael Flynn 'flipped,' Is Giving Damning Evidence On Donald Trump To Fbi? Not So Fast

... - she said Flynn cutting a deal with the FBI would explain "why we have not heard from him in some time.". It is not publicly known whether Flynn has made a deal with the FBI. There is no publicly known evidence that Flynn has done so or that he might face any legal jeopardy that would make a deal worthwhile or attractive. Cable-TV news networks by necessity depend on speculation - they have endless amounts of airtime to fill and only so many facts to present. This sometimes lead hosts and guests to go too far out on a limb. Kayyem tried to clarify her comments the day after her appearance on CNN. "I, as have others in the national security field, have observed that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is potentially a key figure in the investigation; I have said so many times for many weeks," she wrote Sunday on Facebook, which was quickly reported by ...

The Michael Flynn Scandal Just Got A Lot Worse

... institutions have “the right markings to fit the description of a dangerous sleeper terror network.”. Whatever the true nature of the Gülenist movement—though, it should be said, that no credible sources seem to agree with Flynn’s darkest speculations—the Erdoğan government wants to crush this competing power center—perhaps the only one left in Turkey, now that he has purged the military and the press. Erdoğan also blames Gülen for the failed coup in Turkey last summer—a charge that the German foreign intelligence agency just publicly refuted. To date, the United States has not presented Turkey’s petition to extradite Gülen to a U. S. judge, likely because it does not credit the evidence that Turkey has offered. So Turkey seems to have decided to seek extrajudicial options for getting Gülen back to Turkey, and apparently turned to Flynn for help. There are not many possibilities for accomplishing Turkey’s goal. ...

Did Devin Nunes Meet With Michael Flynn And Turkey's Foreign Minister

... the topic of discussion was a potentially illegal act: abducting Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen and delivering him to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan suspects Gulen of orchestrating a failed coup in 2016 and wants the U. S. government to extradite him to Turkey, as Gulen is a green card holder who lives in Pennsylvania. Woolsey told the Journal that the request to abduct Gulen “seemed to be naive,” adding: “I didn’t put a lot of credibility in it. This is a country of legal process and a Constitution, and you don’t send out folks to haul somebody overseas.”. During the week of President Trump’s 20 January 2017 inauguration, Cavusoglu posted several tweets with pictures of him meeting and greeting various American public officials, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. Met w/Speaker of the House of Representatives Ryan, the new Defense Secretary ...

N.j. Congressman Wants Details On Michael Flynn's Lobbying Status

... Reynolds, European Pressphoto Agency. Trump shakes hands with Defense Secretary James Mattis during an event at the Pentagon on Jan. 27, 2017. Vice President Pence is at right. Susan Walsh, AP. Trump greets British Prime Minister Theresa May as she arrives at the White House on Jan. 27, 2017. Shawn Thew, European Pressphoto Agency. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn and Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell watch as President Trump arrives to speak to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at the annual policy retreat in Philadelphia on Jan. 26, 2017. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP. Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Jan. 26, 2017, as he departed to attend a Republican congressional retreat in Philadelphia. Nicholas Kamm, AFP/Getty Images. Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, gives a thumbs-up on Jan. 25, 2017, at the White House. Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP. Trump reads from one of the executive orders he signed during a visit to the ...