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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 the interview, Strzok concluded in his interview report (FBI form 302) that Flynn 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 the interview,<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/michael-flynn-guilty-plea-questions-raised-about-fbi-robert-mueller-investigation/ </ref> Strzok concluded in his interview report (FBI form 302) that Flynn 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 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 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>