Obama aid learned about Flynns talk w/ Russians from Trump Team

[MelissaB]

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New Book: Trump Team, Not Deep State, Revealed Flynn’s Talks With Russians

Obama aide Ben Rhodes writes that he learned about Mike Flynn’s parley with the Russian ambassador not from ‘unmasked’ surveillance intercepts but from Trump’s own people.

The Trump transition team told Barack Obama’s White House about Mike Flynn’s fateful conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to a senior Obama aide’s new memoir. That account stands in contrast to oft-repeated claims that the Obama team unmasked Flynn’s name after learning of the Kislyak conversation from surveillance intercepts.

Ben Rhodes, an Obama deputy national security adviser and a long-time right-wing bete noire, often features prominently in accusations from Donald Trump’s allies that the outgoing White House improperly “unmasked” Flynn from surveillance intercepts and then leaked his name to discredit him In October, Rhodes testified behind closed doors to the House intelligence committee probe controlled by Trump ally Devin Nunes about unmasking.

But in his just-released book The World As It Is, the former senior National Security Council staffer writes that the Obama White House learned about the Flynn-Kislyak talks from the Trump team itself. If Rhodes’ claim is true, then Obama aides had no need to “unmask” any surveillance intercept of Kislyak’s phone calls to determine Flynn was the interlocutor.

Flynn “took a couple of weeks after his own appointment to accept Susan Rice’s invitation to meet,” Rhodes writes. “His own transition team volunteered to us that he’d met with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, before meeting with the American official he was replacing.”

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[MelissaB]

1. This article scorches Devin Nunes.

[superpatriotman]

2. Deservedly so

The guy is a boil.

[MelissaB]

6. Indeed!

[spanone]

3. K&R...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. So basically they don't know how to shut the fuck up

Brilliant!!!!

[marble falls]

5. Their problem is they believe their own lies. There used to be a news/journalist....

Ken ... something ... Olbermann who said about the Neo-Conservatives: its like they think we can't see or hear them. Add that to they really conflate telling telling factual truth with speaking their minds.

[Qutzupalotl]

7. The right was going after this guy, ostensibly over the Iran deal.

Now I wonder if it wasn’t really about this Flynn thing.

Kind of like how they went after Franken over harrassment, but it was really about having exposed Jeff Sessions and started the special counsel. They just want revenge, a scalp, and don’t care what they have to say to get it.