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:*Consortiumnews asks,

:*Consortiumnews asks,

{{Quotebox-float|Senior Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail. 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?}}

{{Quotebox-float|Senior Justice Department holdovers from the Obama administration concocted an argument that Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail. 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].”

:*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.