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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 02 2017, @11:59AM   Printer-friendly

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


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  • (Score: 4, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Saturday December 02 2017, @05:03PM (5 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday December 02 2017, @05:03PM (#604319) Journal

    "'but but but .... HER EMAILS!'. or some other long dead issue that they refuse to let die."

    SHE refuses to let it die: remember a certain book she is pushing hard? Take all responsibility for not winning while blaming EVERYONE but herself or Wasserman-Schulz or Bill or......ad nauseum.

    SHE does not let it die, why should they?

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Knowledge Troll on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:51PM (4 children)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Saturday December 02 2017, @06:51PM (#604348) Homepage Journal

    Because as adults and normal people we should be able to do better than a lizard politician. Hilldawg is old news now - she is running around vacuuming up the last bits of money she can from her experiences in politics. Yes she is a terrible person but pointing it out isn't going to help anything. Let it go so she can fade out to history. Yeah she'll get richer and win more than us little people but that doesn't mean we can't be better persons than her.

    Her name is just noise and bringing it up is just generating heat. Christ all-mighty even the most rabid liberals stopped complaining about the second Bush not too long after Obama took office to the degree that other liberals around you would shut you down for bringing him up because it was old news and not useful.

    Bringing up Hillary or her emails or what ever does absolutely nothing useful at all. It might raise your standing in your social network if you are in one that is still hunting her but for those outside of that circle it is counter productive because people will not believe you have anything of value and you'll be discounted.

    • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by hemocyanin on Saturday December 02 2017, @10:03PM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday December 02 2017, @10:03PM (#604421) Journal

      The DNC is hellbent on repeating every mistake of 2016 possible. https://medium.com/@PlowPlot/tom-perezs-great-dnc-purge-of-sanders-supporters-isn-t-about-politics-6833feef7944 [medium.com]

      So if you don't want to see Trump win a second term, it is important to keep reminding the DNC of recent history -- including its incompetence and complicity in bringing about a Trump presidency. This means refusing to allow it to ignore and make excuses for the abject failure of Clintonism (aka Republicanism) to motivate people by constantly bombarding the bastards with scorn till they crawl away and hide under the rock from whence the came. For-fucking-ever.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Whoever on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:22AM (1 child)

      by Whoever (4524) on Sunday December 03 2017, @12:22AM (#604475) Journal

      If we are going to follow a "whatabout" argument, then, why hasn't Kushner been indicted for his misrepresentations made under penalty of perjury in his SF86 form?

      At this point, his security clearance should have been revoked many times over. Yes, I know that Trump has the authority to reinstate it, but that is what should have happened. The OPM or FBI or whoever granted his clearance should have revoked it and force Trump to reinstate it.

      • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @08:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @08:44AM (#604601)

        why hasn't Kushner been indicted for his misrepresentations made under penalty of perjury in his SF86 form?

        Because Muelluer is going up the food chain. Just because nothing happened to Kushner yet doesn't mean nothing will happen.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @01:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 03 2017, @01:46AM (#604511)

      The second Bush went off to quietly make oil paintings. Why can't she do that?

      Republicans peacefully took their loss. They didn't riot in multiple cities, burning vehicles. They didn't shoot a group of democrat congress members -- which was very good for you because republicans shoot better than Bernie supporters. They didn't assault a democrat member of congress as he innocently mowed his lawn. They didn't beat a Hillary supporter with a bike lock. Switching the identities around, you've done all that.

      Why can't you be peaceful? You're acting like the fictional Trump supporters that you claimed would riot if there were a Hillary win.

      Before the election, you said that Trumps was threatening democracy by suggesting that the election could be stolen. Now you claim it was... yet still oppose any measures to ensure election integrity because you damn well know who was committing fraud that night and thought she had stolen enough votes.

      So no, we aren't going to forget her. She isn't old news until you can fully condemn her, accepting Trump as the clearly better choice and the fully legitimate winner. You need to accept that you voted for a terrible person, and that Trump is in fact not terrible.

      It's too bad you get to enjoy our rapidly improving economy. You fought that. You don't deserve it.