Chaffetz and other Republican traitors won't investigate this further.
Here's the real scandal though, the White House was informed of this a month ago and that he had not only lied but was now vulnerable to blackmail by the Russian government. Up through yesterday they were still allowing this guy to sit in on national security related matters. They only fired him when the media found out that he was compromised.
Think how insane that is. They knew their national security adviser had not only lied to them but was compromised by a hostile foreign power and did nothing until the media reported on it. I cannot think of any explanation for that which doesn't lead to a really, really bad place.
It wasn't just the media revelation per se, since it's basically acknowledged at this point that the administration & putin are bffs, but the timing of it made pence in particular look bad for protecting Flynn just before the release. Of course now they claim he lied etc, when friendship with russia was probably why he was picked in the first place.
You're assuming that Trump didn't ask Flynn to speak to the Russians about the sanctions.
I doubt it considering some of those at the town hall meeting we're from his district. His district is also predominately Republican which accounts for him receiving over 70% of the vote.Chaffetz got an earful at his recent home town constituents meeting. Maybe he will grow a pair at this late date.
Chaffetz and other Republican traitors won't investigate this further.
How the fuck is Nunes the chair of Intelligence Committe and not know you spy on your enemy any way you can?
Same goes for Flynn but he is no longer NSA.
LOL:
“I’ll leave it to the administration to describe the circumstances surrounding what brought to this point,” House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said the most significant question posed by the resignation of Flynn is why intelligence officials eavesdropped on his calls with the Russian ambassador and later leaked information on those calls to the press.
“I expect for the FBI to tell me what is going on, and they better have a good answer,” Nunes said. “The big problem I see here is that you have an American citizen who had his phone calls recorded.”"
Such a great mystery to conservative spying expert why US intelligence would tap calls to the Russian fucking ambassador.
America's spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. That is deeply worrying.
Those cheering the deep state torpedoing of Flynn are saying, in effect, that a police state is perfectly fine so long as it helps to bring down Trump.
Flynn's downfall exposes intelligence community rift over Trump
“Firing Flynn still leaves Trump utterly ignorant of and belligerent about the fact-based intelligence community,” said Glenn Carle, a retired CIA officer.
“Most intelligence officers are not fools or grovelers. One fool, or worse, is now gone from the White House. Trump, the man in charge, still bats his eyes at Putin, and smirks and glowers at the intelligence community. Of course, the intelligence community should not change its disdain for incompetence, distrust of lying, and hostility to malevolence.”
Some interesting takes. The Guardian article has a very full background on Flynn and a pretty good idea of how we arrived at this point. Including some blunt words for what could be a very open season of exposing anything Trump and those around him might do wrong.
You mean like the FBI used its powers to help elect Trump?
America's spies anonymously took down Michael Flynn. That is deeply worrying.
Those cheering the deep state torpedoing of Flynn are saying, in effect, that a police state is perfectly fine so long as it helps to bring down Trump.
Chaffetz is a piece of work. Probably time for him to go as well. If he really listened to his constituents at yesterday's Town Hall meeting he should be tendering his resignation soon.
Probably not because he thinks that he can weather this problem.
Flynn was the one person I was most iffy about in the Trump cabinet. Thank god he is gone.
He's from a heavily Republican district, it's doubtful his constituents would hold him accountable at all.