Carlton Supporters Club

What's your problem with Russians Mav?

I have a  few problems with Vlad and his crew...Biggest gun running country in the world via their former KGB puppet led satellite states who make/refurbish guns rather than tractors these days...annexed Crimea for none of the reasons they stated ie to protect Russian born citizens , seem to have a problem identifying commercial planes from military ones ....
I'll be interested to see what Trump does with his new buddy Vlad.....the latter will want Trump to pull NATO off his back fence so he can start saving some rubles and fund the  cuts he has to make to his military budget..

My missus had a dilemma today, found a photo of Trump when preparing the cat's litter tray.  Didn't know whether to line the poop tray with it or shred it so the cats could really go to town on it.

Here's an indication that a Republican-controlled Congress is hardly likely to go after Trump over the links between his administration and Russia: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/rand-paul-accidentally-speaks-his-mind-about-investigating-trump.

Rand Paul made explicit what other Republicans no doubt are keeping hidden.  It will stay in the Intelligence Committee and out of public view rather than allowing a Select Committee to hold public hearings,  Select Committees are for going after the Dems over historical matters which have no current significance.  Benghazi anyone?

Of course parties apply different standards to their opponents....and also prioritise an agenda according to that....The problem here is that there appears to be significant leaking from the White house and the associated bureaucracy that's finding its way into the media.
That in itself is another huge issue..... but it makes it much more difficult for Trump and the Republicans to let it go unchallenged...especially if transcripts start appearing in the press.

No guarantee that the leaks didn't come from inside the White House.  But if they came from the intelligence services, there's a pretty good chance that the leakers were concerned about Flynn being a threat to national security.

Remember, one of Flynn's deputies lost his security clearance shortly before this story broke: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/02/11/top-flynn-deputy-denied-high-level-clearance-off-nsa-team.html.

Remember also that the suggestion is that Flynn was in contact with Russians "of interest" to intelligence services.  That seems to translate to Russian intelligence operatives.  Such relationships are a security risk and it's not ideal at all.

None of the leaks are illegal.  The leakers haven't committed any crime.  The information here isn't classified.  The information is that Flynn amongst others had frequent contact with Russian actors at the time of sanctions being imposed and it became apparent from this that Flynn lied to Pence.  Leakers might be sacked if identified but that's it.  This isn't analogous to Snowden's case at all.

Bit late for Trump to complain about leaks.  Isn't he the one who said he loves Wikileaks and publicly called on Russia to do more hacks?