Thread by @SethAbramson

I hope federal law enforcement was paying attention on Friday when Michael Flynn told Lou Dobbs that he and Sidney Powell are acting as intermediaries between at least one foreign intelligence service and Trump. Is it Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE? FBI CD better find out.

The idea that a hostile intelligence service—or elements of an allied intelligence service with interests hostile to the interests of the U.S.—would be working with a former U.S. soldier currently aiming to stage a coup, and that FBI CD might not be on top of this, is terrifying.

I should add that Flynn said he and Powell received this mysterious foreign intelligence Friday, and that it'd be getting to Trump immediately. This suggests Flynn was at the White House to transmit that foreign intelligence during the meeting the NYT/others have now reported on.

So the order of events is this: Trump pardons Flynn; Flynn goes to get foreign intelligence intended to overturn the election; Flynn communicates to Trump he has this intelligence; Trump invites Flynn to the White House; Trump and Flynn discuss putting America under martial law.

While we don't know which country's foreign intelligence services Flynn has been dealing with, we know he claims this country secretly monitored our election—and we know that Flynn's closest intelligence ties are with the intelligence services of Russia, Israel, and Saudi Arabia.

As terrifying as it is, we now must say clearly that—per a Trump ally—an unidentified, presumptively hostile foreign intelligence service is aiding Trump's coup attempt—and this illegal interference in our election (a) has been welcomed by Trump and (b) is informing his thinking.

VIDEO/ I post this video only in support of the Twitter thread it's attached to. Obviously what Flynn is describing here is an illegal coup attempt that he is actively participating in—and that is relying on illegal aid from a foreign intelligence service.

NOTE/ On a personal note, I can't express how proud I am that both of these Trump co-conspirators—Michael Flynn and Lou Dobbs—have me blocked on Twitter. Nothing better communicates to me that this feed is on the side of rule of law than that these two scoundrels can't stand it.

NOTE2/ Note that Flynn refers to "foreign countries" and "foreign partners" (*plural*) who were "watching the attacks on our election system [from inside]," and who he is now working with (and who have provided him with "evidence" he's coordinating having sent to the president).

NOTE3/ So Flynn is admitting he's aiding and abetting the election-interference work of "foreign countries" and "foreign partners" who were *inside our elections systems* on November 3 gathering "evidence" from those systems. And Trump is eager to get this foreign misinformation.

NOTE4/ Clearly any "foreign country" inside our election systems "watching" was using its foreign intelligence service to do so. As for "foreign partners"—we know from Proof of Conspiracy that Flynn's ties to private but government-linked Israeli cyberintelligence firms run deep.

NOTE5/ You may note that I haven't mentioned Turkey yet—the nation Flynn was secretly working for while advising Trump's campaign. I just don't know that the Turkish intelligence services have the juice to do what Flynn's describing here. Though I should add that the Emiratis do.

NOTE6/ Remember that, as we learned during the Stone trial, the Turks *were* interested in interfering in the 2016 election and tried to do so—but by passing on intel from Israeli cyberintelligence firms like those Flynn is close to. It *is* possible that *that's* happening here.