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The 18 calls and electronic messages took place between April and November 2016 as hackers engaged in what U.S. intelligence concluded in January was part of a Kremlin campaign to discredit the vote and influence the outcome of the election in favor of Trump over his Democratic challenger, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Veterans of previous election campaigns said some contact with foreign officials during a campaign was not unusual, but the number of interactions between Trump aides and Russian officials and others with links to Putin was exceptional.
“It’s rare to have that many phone calls to foreign officials, especially to a country we consider an adversary or a hostile power,” Richard Armitage, a Republican and former deputy secretary of state, told Reuters.

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The people who described the contacts to Reuters said they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

So wait, which part is fake

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX



The real questions are, why was Obama using government resources to surveil the opposition political campaign for Hillary

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Flynn was working for the Turkish government while working for Trump, which means that he was advocating for policies that benefited Turkey while serving as Trump's national security adviser. And Trump may have known about this. Those revelations are from reports late Wednesday published by McClatchy and the New York Times, respectively. Taken together, they're damning because what Flynn did gets at the heart of being a democracy: He was on the payroll of a foreign government while in a powerful position in the U.S. government.

Lobbying for a foreign government while simultaneously working for the U.S. government crosses just about every ethical red line you can think of, experts say.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) just fired a top state official because the official didn't tell Abbott that he was also working for the Iraqi government. When that happened, I talked to Meredith McGehee with the Campaign Legal Center about why such dual roles are a fireable offense. She explained:

“There's recognition that there are competing interests and a number of potential conflicts that arise between one government and a foreign government,” McGehee said. “That's just kind of built into a system, where a public servant is supposed to be serving the American people, not serving a second master.”

She added: “Can you imagine a U.S. senator saying, 'Oh, yeah, I'm a U.S. senator and, at the same time, I'm lobbying on behalf of Mexico'?"

As for how this ties to Trump, the New York Times reports that Flynn told the president's transition team weeks before the inauguration that the Justice Department was looking into his undisclosed lobbying for Turkey. So it's very possible that Trump knew Flynn had financial ties to the Turkish government when the president hired Flynn as his top adviser on national security.

As McClatchy reports, the potential conflicts involving Flynn started almost immediately. He wrote an opinion piece for the Hill on Election Day titled, “Our ally Turkey is in crisis and needs our support.” Here's a [link=https://img.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/files/2017/05/FLynnHill.png]snippet:


And, as McClatchy reports, the Turkish-U.S. Business Council moved its annual summit from the Ritz-Carlton to the Trump International Hotel in Washington.

The United States has a law — the Foreign Agent Registration Act — to prevent this sort of conflict. It says U.S. citizens who lobby for foreign governments have to tell the Justice Department about it. Flynn didn't do that. He didn't disclose his lobbying work to the federal government, nor to Trump (at least immediately). Flynn, as a former military official, also has to get the military's permission to do this kind of lobbying work.

“The notion you would be working for any government entity and also lobbying on behalf of a foreign government is quite concerning,” McGehee said.

For all of the above, Flynn is at the center of myriad investigations.

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Now it turns out that there has been a series of contacts with Russians

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

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ORIGINAL: Real0ne

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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle

Now it turns out that there has been a series of contacts with Russians

maybe because there is a big difference between contact and connection ya thank?

for all you know its his relatives, like his predecessor [8|]

Realg0ne and Termy, hunting circumcised cock, yesterday:
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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

that would have been my next post:)
heh


WM
Not funny...not one tiny bit, in any fucking way

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

Governments talk with each other, that's why we have governments. Obama and his people talked with the Russians. Hillary and her people talked with the Russians.

These are people gearing up to run the government making phone calls, getting ready to assume power

The information about Flynn, who the article is mostly about, was already known

From your own link:

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The people who described the contacts to Reuters said they had seen no evidence of wrongdoing or collusion between the campaign and Russia

The real questions are, why was Obama using government resources to surveil the opposition political campaign for Hillary

And why would you trust a media that is openly at war with this president.

Even if you don't like him, if you had half a brain you would want honest facts rather than all of this constant fake news propaganda and spin

You may go back to your hysterical nonsense now

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The real questions are, why was Obama using government resources to surveil the opposition political campaign for Hillary