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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let's summarize.

Trump selects as his incoming National Security Advisor a 3-star General who has served his country very honorably for 33 years.[b]There was no love lost between Flynn and Obama, largely because Flynn didn't agree with Obama's anemic response to Al Qaeda and ISIS.  Flynn also believed China was a threat.  [/b]

[b]Flynn was clearly being surveilled and targeted long before Dec., 2016.[/b]  At a Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting (attending.. Comey, Obama, Biden, Rice, Clapper and Yates) , [b] Director Comey stated to selected attendees of that meeting that it would potentially be bad if sensitive information were to be shared with Flynn (and, presumably, the Trump administration in general since Flynn would undoubtedly find out) because Flynn had had conversations with Kislyak.  He had no evidence of any wrongdoing, mind you.  He even stated that he had no evidence that confidential info had been shared with the Russians.[/b] Yates later testified that she first heard about Flynn's call with Kislyak at this meeting.

[b]Susan Rice drafts an email to herself at the very time Trump is being inaugurated.  She uses "by the book" 3 times in the email.[/b] Days after the inauguration, Comey sends two agents to interview Flynn.  [b]This was not at all "by the book" (as he has stated publicly). [/b]As a result of this interview, Flynn is ultimately charged with lying to the agents.  [b]He pleaded guilty because, according to him, they threatened to prosecute his son (for what, we don't know) and having never seen the 302, he thought the FBI agents had stated they thought he was lying to them.[/b]  He spent over 6 million on his defense and his attorneys encouraged him to take the plea.  Now, with a new attorney, he wants to withdraw his plea - the defense claims the prosecution withheld exculpatory information among other things, including the original 302.

So, administration did not share sensitive information with the incoming administration based on the word of a since disgraced FBI Director with no evidence at all. [b] An investigation of a 3-star General was conducted based on no evidence other than phone calls which [/b]were within his responsibility to make.  The previous administration has caused Flynn and countess others to go through hell and ago into incredible debt based on a phony investigation based on Russian disinformation.

So, who exactly is subverting democracy here?  [/quote]

You are speculating on a motive and speculation doesn't make it so. Flynn had a documented record of insubordination at DIA.  Has Obama ever shown retaliatory behavior before?  Trump sure has.

What evidence shows Flynn was surveilled (beyond his illegal activity associated with Turkey and efforts to cover-up therein)?

Under the context that the Russians influenced the election in favor of Trump and given the WH had just learned that an official associated with Trump subsequently had a conversation with the Russians directing them to respond to the current administration in a certain way (to which they complied), I would worry that the incoming Administration had been compromised.  I would hope the FBI director would act prudently with regard to sharing sensitive information with that official until the issue had been resolved in some way.

There is absolutely nothing untoward about drafting an email to yourself for the record - this is common and really is done "for the record" and to note (for the record) that everything was done by the book - it is CYA, to be sure, but also very common ion the government.  You would be stupid NOT to do it.  You may ask, why was it not done shortly after the small group meeting?  Because when you have information suggesting an official close to the incoming administration could possibly be involved with the Russians - who had just targeted our election - you better darn well have confidence that anything you put down in writing can be supported by additional information.  By the time of the inauguration, the preliminary review by FBI probably found enough information to justify conducting a more thorough investigation.  Since the investigation had legs and he old administration was departing, it would make sense to draft something for the record.

It really wasn't Flynn's responsibility to make those calls and have that conversation at that time. 
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