Quote: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. 

 

 

 

Every administration leaks.   This one is no different.   Trump knew about the phone calls a couple of weeks before he fired Flynn.  So obviously, if Trump knew, then a lot of other people around Trump knew, and they could actually be the ones that leaked it to the press.   Maybe Steve Bannon.  Maybe Jared Kushner.  Maybe Priebus.  There are reports of a lot of infighting and jockeying for power in the White House.   It appears very plausible that the leak didn't actually come from the intelligence community, that it actually came from inside the White House. 

 

Secondly, if this was a political hit job, and Flynn actually did nothing wrong, why did Trump fire the guy?  That doesn't add up.  Is Trump that weak, that he would fire his national security advisor who did nothing wrong?  

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