National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Resigns

[Landon]

Michael Flynn, a national security adviser for President Donald Trump, has resigned after the media spotlight found that he potentially leaked fatal discussions with a Russian diplomat and partook in what could be very illegal actions.

Trump, who supported the resignation completely, tweeted that he wondered why the information from DC was being mishandled carelessly.

Here is part of the full article, posted by Fox News.


In the wake of Michael Flynn’s resignation as national security adviser, President Trump and Republican allies on Capitol Hill are turning their attention to the potentially “illegal” leaks that revealed Flynn's politically fatal discussions with a Russian diplomat and other sensitive details from inside the administration.

Fox News first reported Monday night that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., wants the FBI to conduct an assessment of recent media leaks.

TOP REPUBLICAN WANTS FBI REVIEW ON TRUMP LEAKS

The president, after accepting Flynn’s resignation overnight, tweeted Tuesday morning that, “The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington?”

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It apparently literally happened just a few hours after the Washington Post posted this story:


Justice Department warned White House that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, officials say

The acting attorney general informed the Trump White House late last month that she believed Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about the nature of his communications with the Russian ambassador to the United States, and warned that the national security adviser was potentially vulnerable to Russian blackmail, current and former U.S. officials said.


The message, delivered by Sally Q. Yates and a senior career national security official to the White House counsel, was prompted by concerns that ­Flynn, when asked about his calls and texts with the ­Russian diplomat, had told Vice ­President-elect Mike Pence and others that he had not discussed the Obama administration sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2016 election, the officials said. It is unclear what the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, did with the ­information.



[Link (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justice-department-warned-white-house-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail-officials-say/2017/02/13/fc5dab88-f228-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?utm_term=.a81f5468592c)]

The media actually made a positive difference!!


But genuinely terrifying that someone so vulnerable to blackmail was able to get that close to the president, wow...