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[[File:800px-Defense.gov photo essay 120724-D-BW835-236.jpg|right|335px|thumb|National Security Advisor Gen. Mike Flynn, Rice's successor. Flynn was fired from the Obama administration because he saw the jihadis as an enemy rather than Russia. Trump brought him back. Flynn's civil rights were violated by Obama's spy apparatus and was an early victim of Obama's efforts to sabotage Donald Trump. With Flynn's resignation went hopes for a ''raprochament'' with Russia. An arms race or hot war with Russia, Iran, and North Korea is now a possibility, unless President Trump can "drain the swamp" of Obama holdovers among the 15,000 strong national security establishment and Intelligence Community (IC).]]

[[File:800px-Defense.gov photo essay 120724-D-BW835-236.jpg|right|335px|thumb|National Security Advisor Gen. Mike Flynn, Rice's successor. Flynn was fired from the Obama administration because he saw the jihadis as an enemy rather than Russia. Trump brought him back. Flynn's civil rights were violated by Obama's spy apparatus and was an early victim of Obama's efforts to sabotage Donald Trump. With Flynn's resignation went hopes for a ''raprochament'' with Russia. An arms race or hot war with Russia, Iran, and North Korea is now a possibility, unless President Trump can "drain the swamp" of Obama holdovers among the 15,000 strong national security establishment and Intelligence Community (IC).]]

===Flynn frame up===

===Flynn frame up===

On February 9 the ''New York Times'' reported a fake news narrative that  "''Flynn is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office,''"<ref>

On February 9, 2016 the ''New York Times'' reported a fake news narrative that  "''Flynn is Said to Have Talked to Russians About Sanctions Before Trump Took Office,''"<ref>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/flynn-is-said-to-have-talked-to-russians-about-sanctions-before-trump-took-office.html</ref> based upon material gathered by the FISA court warrant.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/flynn-is-said-to-have-talked-to-russians-about-sanctions-before-trump-took-office.html</ref> based upon material gathered by the FISA court warrant.

FBI counterintelligence investigator [[Peter Strzok]] interviewed National Security Advisor Mike Flynn at the White House.<ref>https://www.hannity.com/content/2017-12-04-exclusive-fbi-supervisor-booted-from-mueller-probe-interviewed-mike-flynn/</ref> Dir. Comey testified that while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his interview, Strzok concluded that he did not lie.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>  

FBI counterintelligence investigator [[Peter Strzok]] interviewed National Security Advisor Mike Flynn at the White House.<ref>https://www.hannity.com/content/2017-12-04-exclusive-fbi-supervisor-booted-from-mueller-probe-interviewed-mike-flynn/</ref> Dir. Comey testified that while Flynn may have had some honest failures of recollection during his interview, Strzok concluded that he did not lie.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-flynn-information-1512172863</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/politics/fbi-not-expected-to-pursue-charges-against-flynn/index.html</ref>  

On February 11 National Security aide to National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is denied a security clearance, in effect, the CIA exercising [[veto]] power over the President's management of national security affairs. The action was unprecedented and without cause. Reports say the CIA did not like the aide's attitude toward the agency.<ref>The artcle continues: "Since no one can take part in the formulation or execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president’s people by denying them clearances trumps the president....the persons who thus took for themselves the prerogative that the American people had entrusted to [President Trump] at the ballot box, chances are 100 percent that they will use that prerogative ever more frequently with regard to anyone else whom they regard as standing in the way of their preferred policies, as a threat to their reputation, or simply as partisan opponents... undermin[ing] nothing less than the self-evident heart of the [[United States Constitution:Article II|Constitution’s Article II]]: The president is the executive branch. All of its employees draw their powers from him and answer to him, not the other way around." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/</ref> “They believe this is a hit job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close to him," because the aide "believes that the CIA doesn’t run the world.”<ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319073-top-flynn-aide-rejected-for-key-security-clearance-report</ref>

On February 11 an aide to Flynn was denied a security clearance, in effect, the CIA exercising [[veto]] power over the President's management of national security affairs. The action was unprecedented and without cause. Reports say the CIA did not like the aide's attitude toward the agency.<ref>The artcle continues: "Since no one can take part in the formulation or execution of foreign or defense policy without a high-level security clearance, vetoing the president’s people by denying them clearances trumps the president....the persons who thus took for themselves the prerogative that the American people had entrusted to [President Trump] at the ballot box, chances are 100 percent that they will use that prerogative ever more frequently with regard to anyone else whom they regard as standing in the way of their preferred policies, as a threat to their reputation, or simply as partisan opponents... undermin[ing] nothing less than the self-evident heart of the [[United States Constitution:Article II|Constitution’s Article II]]: The president is the executive branch. All of its employees draw their powers from him and answer to him, not the other way around." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/15/cia-insults-trump/</ref> “They believe this is a hit job from inside the CIA on Flynn and the people close to him," because the aide "believes that the CIA doesn’t run the world.”<ref>http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/319073-top-flynn-aide-rejected-for-key-security-clearance-report</ref>

On February 13 unable to get his staff appointments, Flynn was unable to do his job, and resigned. Consortiumnews reports, {{quotebox|"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].”

Uunable to get his staff appointments, Flynn was unable to do his job, and resigned. Consortiumnews reported, {{quotebox|"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.

But the gambit to get Flynn worked. Amid frenzied coverage on CNN, [[MSNBC]], The ''Washington Post'', The ''New York Times'' and the rest of the mainstream media, Flynn and the Russia ''détente'' that he stood for were not expected to be long for this world of Official Washington." https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/ </small></ref><ref>On February 14 [[Charles Krauthammer]] commented on the unmasking of Flynn, "When the conversation involves an American, there are extremely strict procedures to blur the identity, to hide the identity and to protect the information coming from the American. This is the exact opposite of that and it is scary."[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/14/krauthammer_we_can_not_have_intel_agencies_eavesdrop_on_americans_and_release_it_to_press.html]</ref>}}

But the gambit to get Flynn worked. Amid frenzied coverage on CNN, [[MSNBC]], The ''Washington Post'', The ''New York Times'' and the rest of the mainstream media, Flynn and the Russia ''détente'' that he stood for were not expected to be long for this world of Official Washington." https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/14/trump-caves-on-flynns-resignation/ </small></ref><ref>On February 14 [[Charles Krauthammer]] commented on the unmasking of Flynn, "When the conversation involves an American, there are extremely strict procedures to blur the identity, to hide the identity and to protect the information coming from the American. This is the exact opposite of that and it is scary."[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/14/krauthammer_we_can_not_have_intel_agencies_eavesdrop_on_americans_and_release_it_to_press.html]</ref>}}

FBI Deputy Director [[Andy McCabe]] altered Strzok's interview notes (302s) with Flynn and destroyed evidence.<ref>http://investmentwatchblog.com/mccabe-altered-his-302-of-the-flynn-interview-and-deleted-all-history-of-revisions/</ref> Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] used the tainted evidence to blackmail Flynn into offering a guilty plea for lying to Strzok, along with threats to prosecute Flynn's son. Strzok's friend, Judge Rudy Contreras was removed from the case days after accepting Flynn's guilty plea, and a new judge is now reviewing the evidence.

FBI Deputy Director [[Andrew McCabe]] altered Strzok's interview notes (302s) with Flynn and destroyed evidence.<ref>http://investmentwatchblog.com/mccabe-altered-his-302-of-the-flynn-interview-and-deleted-all-history-of-revisions/</ref> Special Counsel [[Robert Mueller]] used the tainted evidence to blackmail Flynn into offering a guilty plea for lying to Strzok, along with threats to prosecute Flynn's son.  

 

Strzok's friend, Judge Rudy Contreras was removed from the case days after accepting Flynn's guilty plea, and a new judge is now reviewing the evidence.

===Wiretapping Trump's Oval Office===

===Wiretapping Trump's Oval Office===