Quote: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?