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| Robert Mueller's team interviewed former CIA Director James Woolsey about Mike Flynn |
| 2017-10-29 |
| FBI agents for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed former CIA Director James Woolsey regarding allegations that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn discussed a possibly illegal removal of a Turkish cleric from the U.S. "Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have been in communication with the FBI regarding the Sept. 19, 2016 meeting Ambassador Woolsey was invited to attend by one of Gen. Flynn's business partners," Woolsey spokesman Jonathan Franks said in a statement. "Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have responded to every request, whether from the FBI, or, more recently, the Office of the Special Counsel." The FBI has communicated with Woolsey both before and after Mueller’s team took over, according to an NBC News on Friday. Woolsey revealed in March that Flynn discussed with Turkish officials the possibility of removing Fethullah Gulen from the U.S. The Muslim cleric has been blamed by the Turkish government for helping spur last summer's attempted coup to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government. Flynn met in New York with Turkish officials last year when he was a lieutenant general and had been advising the Trump campaign. He reportedly said that Gulen could be removed from the country without using the U.S. extradition legal process. Flynn was removed from his post at the White House earlier this year after it was revealed Flynn misled the administration about his sanctions-related communications with Russians prior to Trump’s inauguration. Emphasis added |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 Think if you will, where General David Petraeus might be today had he not met Paula Broadwell. Donald Trump was an outlier. The intended future president was the Hildebeest. She had been selected a number of years previously. These knuckle-dragging military people just get in the way. They must be dealt with. [sarc off] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-29 15:28 |
| #7 I have great respect and admiration for Jeff Sessions but I still can't help wondering if it wouldn't be better to have Chris Christie as AG. I know Christie has his faults but seems like he would be an aggressive bulldog at DOJ and I'd love to see him bite Hillary's butt. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-29 15:09 |
| #6 Christie: Leak of Reported Indictment in Russia Probe ‘Could Be a Crime’ |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-29 15:06 |
| #5 Indicting Manafort opens the door to Dem prosecutions. Discovery on a case involving the Podesta's would be too much to hope for. |
| Posted by: Jeremiah Gleretle3997 2017-10-29 14:58 |
| #4 My money is on Deep State arch enemy Mike Flynn. Nothing will happen to the Hildebeest. To take her down would be to take Soetoro down. Our first Kenyan master cannot and will not be seen as a failure. If it were possible for us to 'fast forward' fifty years, it might be amazing to discover the 'Christ-like' figure he had become. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-29 14:50 |
| #3 Do I need a /sarc tag for that last sentence? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-29 14:46 |
| #2 Liberal media (CBS for one, CNN for another) reports Mueller's grand jury indicted someone on Friday with the charges to be unwrapped Monday. Speculation wavers between Manafort and Flynn as the subject of the indictment. Can't help wondering when they'll get around to Hillary. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-10-29 14:45 |
| #1 Fetullah Gulen was never going to be sent back to Turkey, unless of course as the post-Erdogan, Klingon sanctioned, regime change leader of the country. Mike Flynn read the tea leaves wrong on that one. Obviously he wasn't 'read on' to the project. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-29 14:39 |