Our Guy Flynn

[ssu]

Ain't spyin' on Russians the intelligence communities bread n' Butter?

I thought monitoring phone calls from diplomats representing countries we have difficult relations with was standard.

Yep.

And I think it has been quite public knowledge that the intelligence community was looking at the ties between some people and the Russians. So why now the outrage?

And once it came out that Flynn had been talking to the Russians, people here naturally assumed that Flynn knew that the phones of the Russian diplomats would be tapped (which I think is quite natural).

This has been a thing brewing for a long time. The first thing that caught my eye was a small article of foreign policy geeks being amazed about Trump's early foreign policy advisors have one Carter Page and his Pro-Russian remarks (and him being close to the Trump team). Page was quickly distanced from the Trump campaign (as now the accusation goes him being the middle man between Manafort and the Russians). The thing never did go away.

[Smitty-48]

Doesn't matter if they spied, they didn't have shit, Trump didn't have to fold, he certainly didn't have to fold like a cheap shirt on one of his key people just three weeks in over something that Trump directed that person to do, but it wasn't the CIA who talked Trump into this, it was Pence.

[TheReal_ND]

[Dand]

^ brazen

[Smitty-48]

It's not even about Flynn, Flynn was expendable, everybody is expendable, the issue is that Trump is sending a message by throwing Flynn under the bus at the first opportunity, and the message is, if you do the Outsider thing, if you do what Trump said you were going to do, push the envelope, go outside the box, break out of the Washington Consensus, you don't actually have the backing, nobody is going to fight for you, and you will be thrown under the bus as soon as the liberal media makes a stink, which, so much for the Outsider thing, and welcome back, GOP Establishment.

[Speaker to Animals]

Ain't spyin' on Russians the intelligence communities bread n' Butter?

I thought monitoring phone calls from diplomats representing countries we have difficult relations with was standard.

Is the Trump administration the "Russians" now?

[StCapps]

The Establishment GOP purges have begun. Flynn was first, Bannon will be next.

[Fife]

That's some impressive drunk tweeting, by all involved.

[Speaker to Animals]

Those fucking pedos are brazen. I give them that.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Ain't spyin' on Russians the intelligence communities bread n' Butter?

I thought monitoring phone calls from diplomats representing countries we have difficult relations with was standard.

Is the Trump administration the "Russians" now?

That can't really be what you see happening.

Flynn was a hatchet job, but it wasn't an illegal hatchet job.