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    US investigators are scrutinizing late December calls between Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, and Russia's ambassador to the US as part of a broader counterintelligence investigation of Russian activities in the US, law enforcement and intelligence officials told CNN.

    The calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian diplomats, according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the officials said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential concerns that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a broader concern about Russian intelligence-gathering activities in the United States.

    The officials all stressed that so far there has been no determination of any wrongdoing.

    FBI and intelligence officials briefed members of the Obama White House team before President Barack Obama left office about the Flynn calls to the Russian ambassador, sources said.

    At a press briefing Monday, Trump press secretary Sean Spicer said he had discussed the issue with Flynn on Sunday. Spicer said there had been two calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador and that they covered only four subjects: Setting up a call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin; exchanging holiday greetings; offering condolences for lives lost in a Russian plane crash; and a Syria conference on ISIS.

    In a statement Sunday night, a spokesman for Trump had said the White House has "absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even a basis for such an investigation."
    The calls were heard in the course of monitoring of communications of Russian diplomats, the officials said. US intelligence agencies routinely capture communications of senior foreign officials, including those based in the US, other intelligence officials said.

    The Wall Street Journal was first to report that investigators had looked at the calls.

    Among the communications being scrutinized are calls between Russia's ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and Flynn on December 29. The calls came on the same day the US announced further sanctions against Russia and expelled a group of 35 Russian diplomats the US had accused of spying.

    A Trump official told CNN on January 16th that Flynn and Kislyak did not discuss the Russian sanctions. On the same day, multiple Trump officials said the call focused on the logistics of connecting Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin after the inauguration for a phone conversation.

    Flynn and Kislyak had talked other times, including in the wake of the shooting of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, in which Flynn expressed his condolences, according to the Trump official CNN spoke to on January 16th. The men also exchanged holiday pleasantries via text on December 28th, the Trump official said.

    The FBI, along with the CIA, National Security Agency and Treasury Department, has assembled a task force to focus on increased Russian spying efforts in the US -- an investigative effort that includes meddling in the US election and alleged dealings with several people tied to Trump.

    Investigators collected communications during the course of the presidential campaign between people believed to be intermediaries of the Russian government and Trump surrogates and others associated with the president's 2016 election campaign.
    None of the other people known to be under scrutiny are part of the new Trump administration.

    Still, the revelation that the calls of the new White House national security adviser were investigated creates a difficult situation for law enforcement and the intelligence community, which has been at odds with the new Trump administration over its handling of the Russian hackings.

    This weekend, Trump went to the CIA for his first official stop as a president, an effort to mend what had been incredible tension between the two groups.
    The Trump administration has been particularly incensed by the leaking of a story first reported by CNN that intelligence chiefs and the FBI director, at a briefing for then-President-elect Trump, presented a summary of unsubstantiated accusations from a political opposition research memo regarding alleged Russian efforts to compromise Trump.

    On Sunday, FBI Director James Comey was at a White House event where Trump honored first responders. Reporters in the room said Trump called out to Comey who walked over and shook hands with the president. The president appeared to whisper something to the FBI director, although what was said could not be heard.
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    Still, the revelation that the calls of the new White House national security adviser were investigated creates a difficult situation for law enforcement and the intelligence community
    WHY are diplomatic monitering calls being investigated?

    This is the problem when Deep State does the investigations when it is not supposed to investigate anything more then Russian hacking of the DNC/Podesta. The investigaion is now into US-Russian diplomatic phone calls?? WHY?

    It's to the point the IC leadership is going to start to interfere ( if not already) with the Trump administations purview of foreign policy

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    Well, if there was something going on under the table they would be pretty stupid to discuss it over the phone lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darth Omar View Post
    Well, if there was something going on under the table they would be pretty stupid to discuss it over the phone lol.
    Particularly if it was a Blackberry.....

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    How dare US gov. officials speak to Russian diplomats.....?......Really ?
    Put blame where it belongs
    ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
    It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
    The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.


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    It is almost guaranteed that any investigation of any kind involving anything Trump will end as of last Friday

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    This is serious stuff. It's becoming a wide ranging investigation with no reasons to do do -and intercepts are one thing but investigations into Flynn something much more onerous

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    The Wall Street Journal was first to report that investigators had looked at the calls.
    well don't keep us in suspense......what did they find.....

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    Obama's politicization of the DOJ, FBI and IRS is gonna end....but its gonna take some time to root out the partisans and leakers where there should be NONE......

    The shit will hit the fan if and when Trump replaces US attorneys .....Clinton fired 93, Bush was castigated for trying to fire 7, and you can't find out how many Obama replaced...
    except for "a bunch"......
    Put blame where it belongs
    ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
    It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
    The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.


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    [QUOTE=anatta;1819049]US investigators are scrutinizing late December calls between Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump's national security adviser, and Russia's ambassador to the US as part of a broader counterintelligence investigation of Russian activities in the US, law enforcement and intelligence officials told CNN.

    The calls were captured by routine US eavesdropping targeting the Russian diplomats, according to the intelligence and law enforcement officials. But the officials said some of the content of the conversation raised enough potential concerns that investigators are still looking into the discussions, amid a broader concern about Russian intelligence

    If the calls were captured then there is nothing to investigate as it's all fully known, but since there is nothing they need a sham investigation

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    Quote Originally Posted by NOVA View Post
    How dare US gov. officials speak to Russian diplomats.....?......Really ?
    Was Flynn a US government official in December?

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