Discussion: Cummings: It Would Be 'Appropriate' To Revoke Flynn's Security Clearance

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Hinting darkly that “there’s something going on,” Donald J. Trump complained on Friday that he has been treated “very unfairly” by the people who wrote the United States Constitution.

“If the Constitution prevented me from doing one or two things, I’d chalk that up to bad luck,” he said. “But when literally everything I want to do is magically a violation of the Constitution, that’s very unfair and bad treatment.”

Lashing out at the document’s authors, Trump said that “America is a great country, but we have maybe the worst constitution writers in the world.”

“Russia has much better constitution writers than we do,” he said. “I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems.”

“The situation is very unfair!” he added.

In an ominous warning, Trump said that, as of Friday, he was putting the writers of the U.S. Constitution “on notice.”

“I don’t have their names yet, but that’s something I’m looking into,” he said. “These jokers are not going to get away with this.”

@coprophagoussmile It’s the fish rotting from the head down sydrome at play in the so called presidency.

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I would put priority on revoking Steve Bannon’s security clearance, he also has no place being involved in national security measures.

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 "Do you agree with the Democratic leader in the House,
 Nancy Pelosi, that his security clearance should be
  revoked, pending the completion of the investigation?"

And lock him up in the meantime —

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Two options:
(A) Trump keeps Flynn on to spite the stupid, awful, mean intelligence community.
(B) Trump fires Flynn and replaces him with someone else unfit for the post. I’ve read that Petraeus is in the running, but it could just as easily be his caddy at Mar-a-Diablo.

Flynn, Bannon, Miller, Conway, Priebus, Spicer, Kushner, Trump, Pence…if you want to get rid of the rot you’re going to need to condemn the whole White House.

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It would be appropriate to revoke Trump’s security clearance. On second thought would it make any difference?

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Leaning towards B

However McCain and Graham will try to have their say and Trump will probably get hitched to a ‘Russia Hawk’ who will attempt to not ‘rock the boat’.

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I suspect Flynn will resign eventually to “spend more time with his family”.

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He said that Flynn is supposed to “make sure that these kinds of things don’t happen” as part of his role as national security advisor.

We’re supposed to be comfortably secure having Flynn in this role why exactly?

Flynn is not the first member of the General Officer Corps to have gone off the rails. When this happens they’re typically given a pat on the back for their prior service and retired

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We’ll have to wait until all the tweets are in.

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And it would be ‘inappropriate’ not to. So, it probably won’t happen (until charges are filed).

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Here is a pretty amazing story from the Observer. http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/

Sample:" In light of this, and out of worries about the White House’s ability to keep secrets, some of our spy agencies have begun withholding intelligence from the Oval Office. Why risk your most sensitive information if the president may ignore it anyway? A senior National Security Agency official explained that NSA was systematically holding back some of the “good stuff” from the White House, in an unprecedented move. For decades, NSA has prepared special reports for the president’s eyes only, containing enormously sensitive intelligence. In the last three weeks, however, NSA has ceased doing this, fearing Trump and his staff cannot keep their best SIGINT secrets…

What’s going on was explained lucidly by a senior Pentagon intelligence official, who stated that “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,” meaning the White House Situation Room, the 5,500 square-foot conference room in the West Wing where the president and his top staffers get intelligence briefings. “There’s not much the Russians don’t know at this point,” the official added in wry frustration."

This whole article is definitely worth a read. Sounds like things are coming to a head awfully quickly.

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“Do you agree with the Democratic leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, that his security clearance should be revoked, pending the completion of the investigation?”

In our normal world we wouldn’t have been asking that question – it was entirely inappropriate to grant a security clearance to the guy in the first place and hence he wouldn’t have had one now.

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Outrageous! How will Putin ever get American classified info if Flynn’s security clearance is revoked??

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I’m a big fan of Rep Cummings but i’m not convinced that Pence is an innocent victim here. He has lied through his teeth before and probably did so with this Russian Ambassador thing as well.

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If Trump fires Flynn, he looks weak. As if he kowtowed to pressure.

But if he keeps Flynn on, the flames start licking at his own boots in the Oval Office. So, I guess it means Flynn has to fall on his sword.

But who knows with this bunch?

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A few quick snapshots of donnies desk while on a “tour” ? ? …

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I think PeePee will hold on to Flynn for as long as possible because to back down now shows the world yet another “loss” for him. Plus, this has the added bonus of appearing that his hand was forced by the {gasp} media, the Dems and anyone else who questions his absolute power.

The same would be true of SpiceBoy - can’t let a girl force him out.

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Yes. As Louise Mensch pointed out Pence has had access to the intelligence agencies’ readout for the past several weeks. Everything about Flynn’s discussion with the Russian ambassador would have been there. He’s not just learning about this now.

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He already looks weak. He backed off China. He seems to have backed off N. Korea, and he lost the no entry EO in the courts, and the Ex Off is leaking like a sieve. He’s surrounded by a bunch of lackys who don’t seem like they have the balls to tell him that emporer has no clothes.

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