We need an independent Investigation of the Trump administration's ties to Russia. Manafort and Flynn were major players in the campaign. Jeff Sessions cannot be trusted to spearhead this matter, The Republican Congress cannot be trusted to investigate. Until proven otherwise. traitors are in charge of the government of the United States. The legal system requires rigid proof. I can offer my opinion.

John Cassidy @ The New Yorker, Feb. 14

We Need the Truth about Trump and Russia

Flynn’s resignation doesn’t put an end to the story. It only highlights the need for a proper investigation into the President’s ties to Putin.

Is Flynn Russia Scandal Like Watergate? Dan Rather Says It Could Be Bigger

 @ International Business Times, 02/14/17 AT 7:02 PM

Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather said Tuesday Watergate was the biggest political scandal of his lifetime, but the current controversy over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s pre-inauguration contacts with the Russian ambassador and the Trump campaign’s possible interactions could eclipse the bungled burglary at Democratic National Headquarters that forced Richard Nixon from the presidency [....]

Flynn’s Downfall Sprang From ‘Eroding Level of Trust’

By PETER BAKER, GLENN THRUSH, MAGGIE HABERMAN, ADAM GOLDMAN and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, @ NYTimes, FEB. 14

I give some interesting excerpts from the beginning but I really recommend checking out the whole long article because it carefully tries to reconstruct everything that happened since before inauguration,including in the Obama administration, and with Att. Gen. Yates, from a whole slew of sources:

WASHINGTON — Just days into his new position as President Trump’s national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn found himself in a meeting that any White House official would dread. Face to face with F.B.I. agents, he was grilled about a phone call he had had with Russia’s ambassador.

What exactly Mr. Flynn said has not been disclosed, but current and former government officials said on Tuesday that investigators had come away believing that he was not entirely forthcoming. Soon after, the acting attorney general decided to notify the White House, setting in motion a chain of events that cost Mr. Flynn his job and thrust Mr. Trump’s fledgling administration into a fresh crisis.

Mr. Spicer described a deliberative process in which a new president took his time deciding what to do with Mr. Flynn [.....]

But other aides privately said that Mr. Trump, while annoyed at Mr. Flynn, might not have pushed him out had the situation not attracted such attention from the news media. Instead, according to three people close to Mr. Trump, the president made the decision to cast aside Mr. Flynn in a flash, the catalyst being a news alert of a coming article about the matter.

“Yeah, it’s time,” Mr. Trump told one of his advisers.

Until around that point, Mr. Flynn seemed to think he was going to keep his job [....]