2/14/17
Happy Valentine’s Day
One keeps trying to write something and one keeps finding
oneself hopelessly behind the stories as they lurch into the sunlight the after
the other to dance their little dance and then be replaced by a newer and more
grotesque grotesques.
This morning Mr. Flynn the National Security advisor quit
mostly because his lies about his ties to Russia and folks had proof and that
things were getting a little hot so someone needed to be tossed to the wolves.
Thus exit Mr. Flynn.
The right is falling all over themselves to say “well things
happen and let’s just move on here”. Which
is actually pretty much par for the course in DC – when proof emerged that W
had blown off a briefing paper titled “Bin Laden determined to strike the US”
and that he had the rest of the establishment had lied about WMD’s (poison gas
actually) and this was treated as while mildly interesting, it was not dire
enough to warrant anything actually being done about it.
Now we have Flynn leaving and they are saying well okay
that’s it.
No it isn’t.
When Obama bum rushed some number of Russians out of the
country and imposed even more sanctions on Russia for their interference in the
US elections, Flynn bowled several
people over in order to get to a phone so he call Russia and reassure them that
once Trump was president things would be fine. Flagrant violation of several
laws this was and of course he lied about it. This is what got him canned.
About this time Trump tweeted some sort of mash note to
Putin saying how smart he was for not responding to what Obama did. The timing
is weird as hell one must say.
And here’s the thing – what the hell made Flynn do that? Did
he just get the idea to contact the Russians on his own or did someone –say, Trump for example – tell him to make the call.
If the later we are in deep deep waters.
In one of my stupid on-line comments I suggested watching
this unfold was something like watching a John Le Carre novel from the outside
– we’re not seeing what is going on inside the intelligence community or inside
the white house or Congress.
2/15/17
Well coming as not much of a surprise, per various news
reports Flynn wasn’t the only one in the Trump Camp with links to the Russians,
no names yet but it doesn’t look good and the FBI is per the Times investigating
– which does raise the uncomfortable question of hey why were these contacts kept
under wraps with you gabbed about emails? (The professor also notes with grim
amusement that the same folks who praised the little creep who runs the FBI
with being a hero for leaking about the
Emails suddenly find leaks ‘a concern’. The professor has not had much
amusement lately so he’ll take what he can get.
Meantime one of the websites I cruse comes in interesting
story. Trump once Flynn’s corpse was safely stowed away under the Bus took to
Twitter to complain about all the leaks that had come out of the Intelligence Community.
Bad Intelligence community Bad, the tweets said.
Anyway per this story the intelligence community is really
really really angry at Trump now. I suspect that Flynn’s quick and brutal fall
from grace was a warning from the Intelligence Community which it would seem
Trump did not take. Hence the Intelligence
Community is now really pissed and one of them sent an email to this former NSA
staffer John Schindler saying per his quote “he will die in jail”
I don’t think he meant Flynn.
To quote Betty Davis “Fasten
your seatbelts, it’s going to be bumpy flight.”
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