MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Christian Farias @ NYMag.com, Nov. 10
[....] a new report in today’s Wall Street Journal should rock the Trump administration, if not the president himself, because it deals with post-election conduct that may have continued even after the inauguration. Mueller is said to be investigating whether Flynn and his son were scheming with the government of Turkey to essentially kidnap Fethullah Gulen, a cleric living in Pennsylvania who has long been a thorn on the side of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The purported plot, if carried out, would’ve netted the Flynns up to $15 million [....]
[...] what if Flynn’s machinations to whisk away Gulen continued even after he took the oath of office as Trump’s national security adviser? And if he did do that, did other administration officials know? [....]
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Mueller Probing Pre-Election Flynn Meeting With Pro-Russia Congressman (Rohrabacher)
by Julia Ainsley @ NBCNews.com, Nov. 10
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/10/2017 - 5:06pm
Rohrabacher indictment more explosive than Flynn's.
by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 11/10/2017 - 6:21pm
Yes, would be. But for some reason--I guess the way the stuff I read was worded--I have this intuition that Rhorabacker is being pursued as a possible link implicating someone else, someone in the admin.
by artappraiser on Fri, 11/10/2017 - 9:15pm
Yes, that's NBC's focus, but the Russian spider web in Congress and the number of Republicans getting Russian money has been hinted at fir months, and seems could produce an unexpected bonanza, whereas we all pretty well assume Trump will be gone in 6-12 months along with 6-12 more henchmen/women.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 11/11/2017 - 12:59am
Mifsud gone missing - another Putin coincidence?
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 3:02am
Court docudump on Papadopoulos, New York Times put 4 reporters on it
How a Trump Adviser Met With Kremlin Contacts; A London Meeting of an Unlikely Group: How a Trump Adviser Came to Learn of Clinton ‘Dirt’
By SHARON LaFRANIERE, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, ANDREW HIGGINS and MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, Nov. 10
Interviews and records reveal new details about contacts between George Papadopoulos, a 28-year-old foreign policy adviser to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and self-described Kremlin intermediaries.
I just noticed it on the home page not that far from the top, haven't read it all yet. Don't get the Nov. 10 date, maybe they didn't promote it til now.
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 4:00am
Flynn Kidnapping Plot Is Like Teapot Dome With a Dash of Treason
By Ed Kilgore @ NYMag.com, Nov 11
While there, also see:
Cambridge Analytica Denies Working With Russia, Unconvincingly
By Jonathan Chait @ NYMag.com, Nov. 11
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 2:40pm
This ties Pence to Flynn as well, since Pence was head of the transition team and Elijah Cummings informed with a certified letter on Nov 18, 2016 that Flynn was tainted. With that scandal ballooning into a $15 million international kidnapping operation, Pence is way into abetting a felony, or at least turning a very blind eye despite huge official warnings about the White House's top security guy. The meeting took place in mid-Dec 2016 at the 21 club, so basically 4 weeks or a month after the election - long enough for Pence to get over the shell-shock of winning the election. But Pence did nothing during that time except vet Flynn for the #1 security slot, and then claim in March that he knew nothing of Flynn's lobbying for Turkey and that he'd first heard about it that week, rather than 4 months earlier, despite Cummings' receipt for his registered letter.
But worse, it means if Pence had acted promptly, he would have prevented the $15 million discussion by the NSA nominee. We know Pence wasn't too busy on Nov 18 to do anything about this, as that was the night he was booed by the Hamilton cast. Perhaps they got a sniff of Pence's je-ne-give-a-fuck-pas attitude as a French heir-like pretender to some throne. That the top security guy for a newly elected administration wouldn't realize this was way inappropriate and highly illegal is remarkable in itself - that his boss, the VP & transition chief would cover for him, well that's off in VP impeachment territory as well - "misprision" is the charge that's bandied about for Pence helping Trump fire Comey, with little way of sticking. But we do know that Pence knew Flynn was acting as a foreign agent without registering, with plenty of time to do something about it - caught dead to rights. That's not likely to improve his chances of assuming the presidency, especially when the $15 mill payoff after the election (maybe continued into office) turns this into something more than just a typical day on K Street.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elijah-cummings-letter-to-mike-pence-abou...
http://nypost.com/2017/11/10/mueller-probing-alleged-flynn-plot-to-extra...
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 3:50pm
Christie fired for Pence on Nov 11 to head transition team - they threw Christie's recommendations in the trash. By Nov 18, 1 week & same day as Cummings warning, Flynn had NSA position. Pence owns this.
Note: receipt for Cummings on Nov 28, 10 dayslater.
Note 2: Pence was Koch's boy, to insure they got their money's worth out of the Trump Administration. No dismissing him as not knowing - he was the political accounts payable guy.
Note 3: Pence's role excusing both Russia and Flynn mid-Jan also give him cwnter role. Post-inauguration, he continued his backseat posture, denying everything. But his presence at all those meetings makes him complicit.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 2:04am
More Pence
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 11/14/2017 - 2:06pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 2:43pm
Trump was quick in his retraction to point out he only agreed with *current* intelligence offers, kinda. So the compromised guys he put in, not the career ones that came before.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 11/12/2017 - 3:09pm