...not blamed for unmasking a traitor.

Not to worry. This stupid propaganda campaign
will backfire bigly on the Reeps.

celebrating the 10th birthday of the Russian TV network RT


Sergey Ivanov (right), then Putin's chief of staff, sat directly across the table from Flynn at the gala. To his left, is Putin's nominal spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, who U.S. officials say is really the Russian president's de facto national security adviser.



Margarita Simonyan is a personal friend of Putin, and worked in one of his presidential campaigns before being chosen to head RT. She took Putin's seat next to Flynn when Putin went to the stage to speak.

Taking orders from his Commander in Chief. Flynn has probably talked to the President about the bad things that could happen if he goes to prison and has too much time on his hands to develop his literary talents. If the AG can't set him free, the President will. The pardon is a powerful tool in the President's legal toolbox.

Flynn will not see prison.

nothing more and nothing less.

Flynn will be the Trump campaign's cause celebre.

Judge Sullivan may not let him off the hook, but the process will get dragged out interminably. It all serves the RW propaganda - confusion is just as good as the truth.

Making a stupid phone call. He’s a fool.

Is where someone within administration leaked the contents of the discussion and Flynn's name to the Washington Post.

was leaked about Hillary Clinton by the FBI right?

If you're looking at where this is probably heading, then the leaking of the unmasked name and contents of the private conversation of a US citizen does become a problem.

Was this "unmasking" illegal?

No. It's common for officials of sufficient seniority. The intelligence agencies get thousands of unmasking requests every year. And the relevant agencies keep records about who makes the requests, as this week's developments have confirmed.

What may have been illegal was when an official in the White House, reviewing these reports and having unmasked Flynn, revealed some of that information to The Washington Post's David Ignatius for a column published Jan. 12, 2017. That sparked the series of events that led to Flynn's defenestration.

Will anyone be charged?

The groundwork has been laid, but it isn't clear if there is any criminal investigation underway.

Investigators, however, could try to use this now-public material to try to link people in the list to Ignatius. Trump has cited what he called the "crimes" from the Obama era and promoted a hashtag, "Obamagate," suggesting that some kind of reckoning might be coming.

tRump calls unmasking "the greatest crime in political history."
In 2017, tRump had 9,529
in 2018, he had 16,721
in 2019, he had 10,012