\n<\/strong>Actually, the CIA owns and operates the WashPo and NYT, but no one is supposed to know that.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Flynn worked through a speaker’s bureau which lined up the RT.com gig. The Democratic congressmen and their MSM mouthpieces, who mistakenly call the Russian media outlet a propaganda arm of the Kremlin are simply giving their unverified and erroneous political opinions.<\/p>\n
Only with this correct understanding can one begin to properly comprehend the highly organized conspiracy to convict Mike Flynn. \u00a0The are out to get him with such a vengeance because of his tweeting about Hillary Clinton’s direct connection to Pizzagate<\/em> criminality. This is also why he was forced to resign as NSA by Deep State, since Pedogate<\/strong> is the primary control mechanism by which the CIA manipulates all of Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n Not only do the same co-conspirators want to start a shootin’ war with Russia, they will do everything in their power to bring down the Trump Administration. \u00a0They have targeted Flynn as a vulnerable ex-NSA who was close to Trump. \u00a0And they will contrive any charges they can to unjustly indict him.<\/p>\n By the way, if a Russian statesman received a speaking fee from a speakers bureau representing the Wall Street Journal, would they be considered as receiving payment from the US government?<\/p>\n State of the Nation<\/a> N.B. \u00a0The article below must be read very carefully to catch all the subterfuge and deception that is flying in every direction right now. \u00a0And virtually the entire U.S. Congress is in on the scheme, although the Democrats are obviously leading the “charge”.<\/p>\n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n Michael Isikoff Michael Flynn\u2019s former top deputy at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told Yahoo News on Thursday he would have ordered an immediate investigation of his one-time boss had he been informed that the ex-DIA chief had accepted more than $45,000 from an arm of the Russian government for a talk in Moscow in December 2015.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have considered this an intelligence issue \u2014 taking money from an existential adversary of the United States,\u201d said Douglas Wise, who served as deputy director of the DIA from the summer of 2014 until last year. \u201cI would have made it an issue with the Office of General Counsel, the office of security and the office of counterintelligence \u2014 absolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n Flynn\u2019s failure to disclose his payments from RT, the Russian government-funded TV network that U.S. officials say serves as a propaganda arm for President Vladimir Putin\u2019s administration, erupted as an issue earlier in the day Thursday when it was revealed that the Department of Defense\u2019s top watchdog is investigating whether Flynn, President Trump\u2019s former national security adviser, violated federal ethics rules by failing to report and receive prior approval to accept the RT fees.<\/p>\n But Wise, a career CIA officer who was detailed to the DIA as its deputy director during the last few months of Flynn\u2019s tenure there in 2014, said a Pentagon probe would have begun two years earlier had he known about such payments. While Flynn did inform DIA debriefers that he was flying to Moscow for RT\u2019s 10th anniversary \u2014 an event at which he spoke and sat next to Putin at a black-tie dinner\u00a0\u2014 Wise said he had no idea that Flynn was actually compensated for it.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody would have imagined that Flynn would have taken\u00a0money for the trip,\u201d Wise said. \u201cI would never have thought that in a million years.\u201d When he learned last year that Flynn had actually been paid by RT, \u201cI was apoplectic,\u201d Wise said. Given RT\u2019s role as a propaganda arm for Putin, \u201cit was stunning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n But Flynn\u2019s lawyer,\u00a0Robert Kelner, released a statement Thursday disputing that Flynn had misled the DIA about the trip. He said in a statement that an April 7, 2012, letter from the DIA to a congressional committee confirms \u2014 in a still-redacted portion \u2014 that \u201cGeneral Flynn provided information and documents on a thumb drive to the Department of Defense concerning the RT speaking event in Moscow, including documents reflecting that he was using a speakers bureau for the event.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGeneral Flynn provided two briefings to the Department \u2014 one before and one after the event. The Department was fully aware of the trip,\u201d Kelner\u2019s statement continued. \u201cWe urge DIA and the Committee to release the full, unredacted letter, along with the documents that General Flynn provided to DIA during the briefings and details concerning the in-person briefings provided by General Flynn to DIA.\u201d<\/p>\n The disclosure by Defense Department Acting Inspector General Glenn Fine, in a letter to Congress, is the first indication that Flynn\u2019s Russia ties are now being investigated by a federal agency. It is also prompting mounting charges from congressional Democrats that the White House is stonewalling inquiries into Flynn in order to deflect attention from questions about alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow.<\/p>\n \u201cThese guys are playing games,\u201d said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking minority member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee<\/a>, about the White House\u2019s refusal this week to turn over requested documents about Flynn, including a copy of the security clearance form he filled out when joining the White House staff.<\/p>\n Other documents released by Cummings on Thursday include a letter from a DIA lawyer warning Flynn in October 2014 \u2014 after he was fired as the agency\u2019s director \u2014 that he was prohibited from receiving payments from foreign sources without advance permission.<\/p>\n The letter from the lawyer, whose name is redacted, seems clear-cut. It advises Flynn of multiple ethics rules that would continue to govern his postmilitary conduct, including a ban on all retired military personnel from receiving foreign governments\u2019 \u201cemoluments\u201d \u2014 defined as any \u201cconsulting fees, gifts, travel expenses, honoraria or salary\u201d \u2013 without receiving prior consent from Congress and their previous service secretary.<\/p>\n \u201cAccordingly, if you are ever in a position where you would receive an emolument from a foreign government or from an entity that might be controlled by a foreign government, be sure to obtain advance approval from the Army prior to acceptance,\u201d the letter reads. It later states: \u201cYou are respectfully reminded that you are responsible for ensuring compliance with these post-government restrictions,\u201d noting that \u201cthese statutes carry criminal sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n But another new DIA letter released by Cummings on Thursday states that the agency could locate no documents showing that Flynn sought advance permission or approval for the receipt of money from RT.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have no evidence, not a shred, that he disclosed his payments,\u201d Cummings said at a news conference about Flynn\u2019s payments from RT.<\/p>\n Questions about Flynn\u2019s 2015 appearance in Moscow first arose last July during an interview at the Republican National Convention<\/a> in Cleveland, when Yahoo News pressed him on who paid for his trip to attend the 10th anniversary celebration of RT.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t take any money from Russia, if that\u2019s what you\u2019re asking me,\u201d Flynn said at first. Then, when asked who did him pay him, Flynn replied: \u201cMy speakers\u2019 bureau \u2014 ask them.\u201d<\/p>\n Documents released last month show that Flynn was paid $45,386 for the trip<\/a>, routed through RT\u2019s London office, with 25 percent of that going to Leading Authorities, his speakers\u2019 bureau. But Cummings and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, the House oversight committee\u2019s chairman, said this week that Flynn failed to disclose the payments from RT on a form he filled out to renew his security clearance in early 2016 \u2014 just months before he joined the Trump campaign as chief foreign policy adviser.<\/p>\n That failure has now apparently led to the Pentagon investigation.<\/p>\n \u201cThis office has initiated an investigation to determine whether Lieutenant General (LTG) Flynn, U.S. Army (Retired) failed to obtain required approval prior to receiving any emolument from a foreign government,\u201d Fine, the acting Pentagon inspector general, wrote in a letter to Chaffetz dated April 11 and released Thursday. Fine\u2019s letter cites some of the same ethics restrictions that Flynn was warned about by the DIA lawyer in 2014.<\/p>\n Flynn was fired as Trump\u2019s national security adviser<\/a> in February. He was ousted after the White House acknowledged that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador on Dec. 29, 2016, falsely denying that the two of them had discussed the possibility that the incoming Trump administration might lift sanctions on Russia once it took office. Flynn also later retroactively filed a notice with the Justice Department that he had received more than $500,000 last year from a Dutch company with links to the Turkish government<\/a> \u2014 another issue that could be examined as part of the Pentagon inquiry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/92831955_mediaitem92831954.jpg\")
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\nMay 2, 2017<\/p>\nFlynn\u2019s former top deputy: I was \u2018apoplectic\u2019 when I learned about RT payment<\/h1>\n
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Donald Trump and Michael Flynn at a campaign event last September. (Photo: Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/h6>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n