President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the F.B.I. about conversations with the Russian ambassador last December during the presidential transition, bringing the special counsel's investigation into the president's inner circle.
Mr. Flynn, who appeared in federal court in Washington, acknowledged that he was cooperating with the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, into Russian interference in the 2016 election. His plea agreement suggests that Mr. Flynn provided information to prosecutors, which may help advance the inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html
(Score: 3, Informative) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday December 02 2017, @02:43PM (4 children)
more whataboutisms?
this is NOT ABOUT HILLARY.
this is NOT ABOUT OBAMA.
(shit, its not even about clinton, and yet I see all the 'what about ...' brought up all the damned time)
this is about trump and his corrupt gang of swamp-dwellers. and the country is now enjoying some sweet auto-correction of the downturn we have been in the last year or so. and this party has just started!
stay on topic. this is not about any previous or past presisent or would-be president. the ONLY things that are relevant are trump, the russians and his gang that sold the US out so they could rob us all blind.
fuck them. fuck them all hard. prison is too good for the lot of them.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 4, Touché) by khallow on Saturday December 02 2017, @05:42PM (3 children)
Here's a learning moment. How did Trump get elected? In large part because the Democratic nominee, that would be Clinton, got away with criminal gross negligence. I don't have her FBI transcripts or her internal mental state at the time, so I don't know if she lied to the FBI or not. This is a classic double standard in play.
And let us note that you probably won't be so excited about the FBI, if Trump should obtain the same control over the organization that Obama enjoyed. Finally, let me remind you of something you wrote in defense of Clinton:
Surely, lying to the FBI is even more petty than felony gross negligence with respect to info sec.
I personally approve of the FBI investigation. If we want laws to be something other than for the "little people", then the powerful need to be subject to them as well.
Second, what downturn [cnn.com]?
The economy isn't soaring, but it's no downturn either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @10:14PM (1 child)
Proof proof proof? Any proof at all or you're just flinging more whataboutisms. FBI director says there is none.
Flynn ADMITTED it. Flynn is definitely guilty. 0-5 years for him.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 03 2017, @03:45AM
Looks like the FBI director said otherwise in a draft circulated through Congress [soylentnews.org] and notes in the very speech several felonies committed.
While that's (usually) a stronger standard of proof, I consider the Clinton email mess sufficiently proved. Obviously, you don't for some reason.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:15AM
Because Comey did something he should not have done: commented publicly on an ongoing investigation, which turned up nothing anyway.
Without Comey's last minute intervention, Trump would not have been elected.