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really important point by @emptywheel: "w/ both Flynn and Manafort — where the judges have seen significant amounts of non-public information...very reasonable judges have raised explicit questions about whether Trump’s aides had betrayed their country."
emptywheel.net/2019/02/18/fou…
House oversight: "According to the whistleblowers, the NSC Ethics Counsel and several attorneys in the NSC Legal Advisor’s office agreed that General Flynn had a potential conflict of interest that could violate the criminal conflict of interest statute"
oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
Some context: this is related to Flynn's efforts to give Saudi Arabia sensitive nuclear technology as part of a plan developed by a private company to build nuclear facilities in the Middle East. Flynn served as an adviser to this same company through at least December 2016.
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