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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. 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,

*'''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> Yates states later, “We weren’t the only ones that knew all of this… the Russians also knew about what General Flynn had done, and the Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others… Not only did we believe that the Russians knew this, but that they likely had proof of this information, and that created a compromise situation––a situation where the national security advisor essentially could be blackmailed by the Russians.”<ref>https://www.mediaite.com/tv/sally-yates-we-believed-general-flynn-was-compromised-with-respect-to-the-russians/ </ref>

*Consortiumnews asks,

{{Quotebox|senior Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail.<br>

{{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?}}

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?}}