Saw this at DU, fascinating...
not putting in quotes...enjoy...
The Russians got in through the Nationals and Flynn
“The Nationals,” being the National Rifle Association and the National Prayer Breakfast. That took care of guns and religion. Trump, Manafort, Stone, and Assange covered politics and Michael Flynn opened the back door and let the Russian military come in by introducing the “Deep State” team.
Info on the “Deep State Memo” and the players:
Here’s the Memo That Blew Up the NSC
“The full memo, dated May 2017, is titled “POTUS & Political Warfare.” It provides a sweeping, if at times conspiratorial, view of what it describes as a multi-pronged attack on the Trump White House.”
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/10/he ... p-the-nsc/
An aide to Rep Nunes, retired Colonel Derek Harvey, was outed by Lev Parnas as a point of contact for relaying information about Joe Biden to Giuliani and Nunes. Colonel Harvey, a hawk regarding Iran, was a former NSC official brought on the Staff by ex NSA General Flynn. After Flynn left the NSC, retired General McMaster took over. McMaster cleaned house and fired Derek Harvey, Rich Higgins, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick.
Higgins was another staffer brought on by General Flynn and was the former staffer who wrote the “Deep State” memo which caused the shakeup of personnel at NSC, resulting in the H.R. McMaster firings.
Update, Ezra Cohen-Watnick is back, and Tata too:
The head of the Pentagon’s Defeat ISIS Task Force was ousted and his office was disbanded.
NY Times, Dec 1, 2020
“In a statement late Monday, the Pentagon said that the acting defense secretary, Christopher C. Miller, had accepted Mr. Maier’s resignation and that his duties would be folded into two other offices that deal with special operations and regional policies. Those offices are led by Ezra Cohen-Watnick and Anthony J. Tata, two of the Trump appointees who have been promoted in the recent purge.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/p ... anded.html
The Players:
General Flynn
Rep Nunes
Col Derek Harvey
Rich Higgins
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
Steve Bannon
Jared Kushner
Flynn:
Intelligence scholar sues Cambridge academic, U.S. news outlets over reports on Flynn links
“A Russian-born British scholar is suing an alleged FBI informant and four news outlets for allegedly defaming her by linking her to Russian efforts to influence President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign.
Svetlana Lokhova filed the suit Thursday in federal court in Alexandria, Va., seeking more than $25 million in damages from longtime University of Cambridge academic Stefan Halper as well as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC.
Lokhova alleges that Halper and the news outlets conspired to spread a false narrative that she approached then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn on behalf of Russian intelligence at a seminar dinner in England in 2014 and that Flynn and Lokhova had an intimate relationship.
Lokhova’s attorney, Biss, has grabbed headlines over the past year for a series of aggressive and unusual defamation lawsuits seeking eye-popping sums from media organizations and others.
In March, Biss filed a $250 million-plus libel suit on behalf of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) against Twitter and political operative Liz Mair over their roles in Twitter accounts that taunted Nunes, including "Devin Nunes’ Mom" and "Devin Nunes’ Cow."
The following month, Biss filed another suit for Nunes, seeking $150 million from the newspaper chain McClatchy over a Fresno Bee report about an alleged cocaine-fueled sex party at a Napa Valley winery co-owned by Nunes.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-th ... ks-1342943
Lokhova lawsuit:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov ... .1.0_5.pdf
Lokhova loses lawsuit:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200 ... -him.shtml
Lokhova appeals:
https://www.rcfp.org/briefs-comments/lokhova-v-halper/
Colonel Derek Harvey timeline:
January 2017 joins NSC
July 2017 fired from NSC by NSA H.R. McMaster
September 2017 joined House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence staff under Chairman Nunes to investigate Russian interference in USA elections
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Harvey
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/27/to ... y-council/
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017 ... es-russia/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ee/539439/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-walls ... n-on-trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/week ... ncil-staff
Rich Higgins
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... mo/535725/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/10/he ... p-the-nsc/
https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/rich ... eep-state/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/people/rich-higgins/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/11/us/p ... uncil.html
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Cohen-Watnick
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ck/534615/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/white-hou ... ked-intel/
https://investigaterussia.org/players/e ... en-watnick
https://www.businessinsider.com/ezra-co ... nes-2018-4
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-hou ... his-co-wor
The Russians got in through the Nationals and Flynn
The Russians got in through the Nationals and Flynn
I sigh in your general direction.
Re: The Russians got in through the Nationals and Flynn
Ok. This is totally the last straw, the final insult. MAJOR SANCTIONS NOW!
The Russians will not allow Ben Stiller to enter the country! (OK Sean Penn, too.)
Ben Stiller and Sean Penn have been permanently banned from Russia over America's 'Russophobic course'
The actors are among 25 individuals who can no longer set foot in Russia.
https://ew.com/celebrity/ben-stiller-se ... om-russia/
I'm telling ya, Russia ... you don't want to make Ben Stiller angry.
Fine ... you can KEEP Steven Seagal.
The Russians will not allow Ben Stiller to enter the country! (OK Sean Penn, too.)
Ben Stiller and Sean Penn have been permanently banned from Russia over America's 'Russophobic course'
The actors are among 25 individuals who can no longer set foot in Russia.
https://ew.com/celebrity/ben-stiller-se ... om-russia/
I'm telling ya, Russia ... you don't want to make Ben Stiller angry.
Fine ... you can KEEP Steven Seagal.
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