Associates claim Flynn was in contact with Sergey Kislyak about “grand bargain”during 2016

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For the article, published December 13, Mother Jones’ reporters interviewed two Flynn associates who asked for anonymity—and both of them discussed their conversations with Flynn. One of them, according to Corn and Friedman, alleges that Flynn and Kislyak discussed “a grand bargain in which Moscow would cooperate with the Trump Administration to resolve the Syrian conflict and Washington would end or ease up on the sanctions imposed on Russia for its annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine.”

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Hmm, so they are saying that Flynn lied specifically about the details he and Kislyak spoke about? For the record, it sounds like a good plan?

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According to Corn and Friedman, the other Flynn associate alleges that Flynn and Kislyak discussed “Syria, Iran and other foreign policy matters that Russia and the United States could tackle together were Trump to be elected.” A third anonymous source is mentioned in the Mother Jones article as well. That source, Corn and Friedman write, alleges that “Flynn told him he had been in contact with Kislyak about Syria—but without stating whether that was before or after Election Day.”

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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the future NSA Director talking post election with other foreign governments. Again solving the problems Iran and Syria pose seems like a good idea?

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But Corn and Friedman stress that “had Flynn privately met or communicated with Kislyak during the summer or fall” in 2016, “it would mean Trump’s chief national security aide was secretly interacting with the representative of a foreign power as that government was mounting information and cyber warfare against the United States.”

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It’s quite a leap to say that because Flynn was in contact with Russians that they conspired to hack and release damming info on Clinton.

Article raises a few questions:

1) I wonder if Flynn specifically lied about what was being discussed with the Kremlin and how long he’d been talking to them? It seems to me that neither are against the law?

2) Another post talks about the FBI already knowing the answer to the questions they asked Flynn? How in the world would they know this information? Where they spying on Flynn?

3) Why does Flynn have to disclose every single detail of private but not classified talks about Russia to a couple of FBI agents? Flynn was to become the NSA Director.