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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4483153" data-attributes="member: 54375">to take the view that the FBI had no reasonable investigative predicate for the Flynn case on Jan. 24, 2017, one has to believe that the following fact-pattern, considered in its entirety, provides no reasonably articulable basis for a counterintelligence concern:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">A senior official with a TS/SCI (top secret/sensitive compartmented information) clearance working in the White House has ties to various Russian government entities.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">He has traveled to Russia and taken large sums of money from a state-controlled Russian media outfit.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">As the investigation of these matters was winding down, he had phone conversations with the Russian ambassador at a time when the United States had just imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 elections. In those conversations, he had asked that Russia to respond only in a measured fashion.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">He subsequently lied to the vice president of the United States and other White House officials about the substance of those calls, causing the White House to issue inaccurate statements to the public.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Russian government was aware of these lies, having participated in the phone calls, and the official was thus potentially subject to blackmail.</li>
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[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4483153, member: 54375"] to take the view that the FBI had no reasonable investigative predicate for the Flynn case on Jan. 24, 2017, one has to believe that the following fact-pattern, considered in its entirety, provides no reasonably articulable basis for a counterintelligence concern: [LIST] [*]A senior official with a TS/SCI (top secret/sensitive compartmented information) clearance working in the White House has ties to various Russian government entities. [*]He has traveled to Russia and taken large sums of money from a state-controlled Russian media outfit. [*]As the investigation of these matters was winding down, he had phone conversations with the Russian ambassador at a time when the United States had just imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 elections. In those conversations, he had asked that Russia to respond only in a measured fashion. [*]He subsequently lied to the vice president of the United States and other White House officials about the substance of those calls, causing the White House to issue inaccurate statements to the public. [*]The Russian government was aware of these lies, having participated in the phone calls, and the official was thus potentially subject to blackmail. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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