1. From the @nytimes
"Justice Department officials say that all appropriate approvals were given for those orders, meaning that the attorney general at the time, not Mr. Demers, signed off."
For what it's worth, I think Demers is one of the good guys.
"Justice Department officials say that all appropriate approvals were given for those orders, meaning that the attorney general at the time, not Mr. Demers, signed off."
For what it's worth, I think Demers is one of the good guys.
2. Jeff Sessions was AG in February 2018. IMO they know what happened. Now they need to know why. I think it was the leak. I recall among my first impressions when Flynn was outed in February 2017, that someone might pay for the leak but my suspicion
3. was and remains that Flynn and Trump were involved in Special Nuclear Material proliferation. The FISA wasn't specifically about Russia though Russia was involved. It was about nukes. And FISA wasn't being used for foreign agents, it also covers proliferation.
4. I am free to opine and talk about it and the worst that can happen to me is to look foolish. But the people in the DOJ are restricted under the SCI restrictions from being able to even confirm or deny any of this. Few people get this high a clearance. Lisa Monaco is one.
5. One thing that I'm starting to wonder is if Flynn was threatening to expose the entire deal and that's why Barr moved heaven and earth to spring him. There is a notation in the Flynn pardon that refers to a secret part of the Mueller authority. I wonder if he was looking at
6. the nukes? It would have been more likely the Counterintelligence crew and that would have been Demers. But in the beginning, I still think it was Dana Boente. The USA from VA that Obama tricked nitwit Trump into appointing as acting AG.
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