Quote:Sure, you say that, but when the American intelligence community brings down Michael Flynn, your side condemns the leaks.   It's the same thing! 

 

No its not. 

 

The ire of the right is focused squarely on those who leaked the information.  This information would have been classified at the highest levels of signal intelligence.  The idea that anyone knew it was Michael Flynn on the recording is an egregious breach of both ethics and the law.  This compromised our ongoing surveillance of foreign actors and may precipitate a response from Russia that now has proof that they were being monitored.  The leakers should be found and prosecuted to the full extent of both the Law and Trumps unique ability to point out Dirty Rats!

 

Second, In the case of WikiLeaks, Assange and his group dumped whole e-mails and e-mail chains.  They didn't leak part of a transcript and the just let innuendo and headlines drive a narrative.  From all accounts those who have actually seen the information, Flynn didn't do anything inappropriate or offer any quid pro quo to a Russian official.  This is being used to drive the rumor and the either of the Russian hacking story.  Most of the people most fervently outraged over the story don't even know that the conversation in question happened AFTER the election during the Transition when Flynn was the presumed NSA. 

 

This is childish and irresponsible from the news media.  You have people using inflammatory language like WATERGATE one person even said 9-11 style attack when talking about the leaks of the DNC e-mails.  In Watergate Laws were clearly broken on several levels and then there was a defined cover up demonstrated through taped conversations that could be fully examined by congress.  In this case you have a member of the incoming administration networking with a foreign counterpart.  THAT'S IT. 

 

In the Mid 80's we now know that the Democratic party was directly conspiring with Soviet Russia against then president Ronald Regain.  There was direct request and offers made by Ted Kennedy to promote the soviet regime inside the united states to help prop them up in exchange for help defeating Reagan.  Where's the outrage over that?

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