Will Obama Be Questioned About Trump and Flynn?

[DonViejo]

WILL OBAMA BE QUESTIONED ABOUT TRUMP AND MICHAEL FLYNN IN THE RUSSIA INVESTIGATION?

BY CRISTINA SILVA ON 12/2/17 AT 9:23 AM

Before Michael Flynn became Donald Trump's national security adviser, he was a Defense Department leader serving under the Obama White House. That connection between the two administrations could potentially see former President Barack Obama questioned about what he knew about Flynn and when in the probe into Trump's potential connections with Russia.

Two days after Trump won against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 race, an ugly election season that saw Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, campaign fiercely against Trump, Obama and Trump met in the Oval Office for 90 minutes to discuss national security. Flynn came up, according to media reports, but it is unclear exactly what was said: Were Flynn's Russia connections mentioned?

And that's why Obama might be tapped to speak with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation team about Russia's role in the 2016 campaign. Flynn pleaded guilty Friday about lying to the FBI about his conversations with Moscow before Trump was sworn in on Inauguration Day in January. But before the plea, former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who served in the Justice Department for 27 years, was pushed out by the Trump administration after she warned that Flynn could be "blackmailed by the Russians," because of his "problematic" conduct. So what exactly did Obama know about Flynn and what did he tell Trump?

“If you are doing an obstruction of justice investigation, you would want that information,” Solomon Wisenberg, who questioned President Bill Clinton under independent counsel Kenneth Starr’s probe, told Vanity Fair this week about Obama playing a role in the Russia investigation. “Why is Trump trying to protect Flynn, saying ‘he’s a good guy,’ after all these people—the former president, Sally Yates—warned him?”

Others doubt Obama will be asked to speak up in the Mueller investigation. “Once Trump became the Republican nominee, leaders of the intelligence community briefed him periodically, and after the election more regularly,” Ned Price, a former C.I.A. analyst and National Security Council staffer, told Vanity Fair. “The briefings are scripted, documents are prepared, so it should be easy for Mueller to say, ‘I want to see the president-elect’s briefing for X day,’ or ‘Show me everything that was briefed to the president-elect about Russia.’ The process is led by the director of National Intelligence, but it involves analysts from C.I.A., N.S.A., F.B.I. So there wasn’t a need for President Obama, in that meeting, to delve into the nitty-gritty of what the intelligence community assessed and how they assessed it.”

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[Fred Sanders]

1. So Emperor Elect was given briefings by Yates about Flynn being comprised by Russians, but did

did not read the legal and intelligence briefs, did not understand or did not care? And remember him denying all the intelligence agency reports about Russia by the dozen? And now continues to refuse news sanctions ordered by Congress because...I wonder why?

Quite the land mines Obama left that Trump and His Swamp Morons stepped all over it seems.