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*'''12 February.''' The ''[[Observer]]'' reports a Senior [[Department of Defense]] official saying since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM".<ref>http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/</ref>
*'''12 February.''' The ''[[Observer]]'' reports a Senior [[Department of Defense]] official saying since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM".<ref>http://observer.com/2017/02/donald-trump-administration-mike-flynn-russian-embassy/</ref>
*'''13 February.''' Flynn resigns. Consortiumnews reports, "Flynn’s real “offense” appears to be that he favors ''[[détente]]'' with Russia rather than escalation of a new and dangerous [[Cold War]]. Trump’s idea of a ''rapprochement'' with Moscow – and a search for areas of cooperation and compromise – has been driving Official Washington’s foreign policy establishment crazy for months and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#The neoconservatives return|the neocons, in particular]], have been determined to block it."<ref><small>The article continues, "as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency – he oversaw a prescient 2012 analysis that foresaw that their support for the Syrian insurgency would give rise to “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria [ISIS].”
*'''13 February.''' Flynn resigns. Reports say Sally Yats warned Don McGahan that Flynn was vulnersble to Russian blackmail;<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/online/report-acting-ag-told-wh-that-flynn-could-be-vulnerable-to-russian-blackmail/ </ref> Consortiumnews asks,
{{Quotebox|senior Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.<br>
The argument is dubious because the Russians would know that the U.S. government knew exactly what the conversations entailed, so how would the blackmail work?}}
*Consortiumnews reports, "Flynn’s real “offense” appears to be that he favors ''[[détente]]'' with Russia rather than escalation of a new and dangerous [[Cold War]]. Trump’s idea of a ''rapprochement'' with Moscow – and a search for areas of cooperation and compromise – has been driving Official Washington’s foreign policy establishment crazy for months and [[Hillary Rodham Clinton#The neoconservatives return|the neocons, in particular]], have been determined to block it."<ref><small>The article continues, "as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency – he oversaw a prescient 2012 analysis that foresaw that their support for the Syrian insurgency would give rise to “a declared or undeclared [[Salafi]]st principality in eastern Syria [ISIS].”
The DIA report, which was partially declassified in a lawsuit over the [[Libyan War#Ambassador Stevens dispatched|2012 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya]] and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in Syria and the ouster of secular President Bashar al-Assad.
The DIA report, which was partially declassified in a lawsuit over the [[Libyan War#Ambassador Stevens dispatched|2012 killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya]] and three other U.S. personnel in Benghazi, Libya, embarrassed the advocates for an escalation of the war in Syria and the ouster of secular President Bashar al-Assad.