Manafort was there for a month - maybe he became campaign manager to pay off his farcical debts to Putin?
Flynn had legit reasons for talking to Russians as incoming DNI. Despite the Logan act nonsense that got him unmasked.
Oh and we just found out Flynn was in contact with the FBI on his Russian dinner meeting with Putin!
https://theduran.com/secret-evidence-vindicates-michael-flynns-treasonous-dinner-with-putin/
The Obama administration knew everything about Flynn’s RT dinner, as he fully briefed US intelligence officials on the trip.
Via The Hill:
Were the information Grassley requested made public, America would have learned this, according to my sources:
Before Flynn made his infamous December 2015 trip to Moscow — as a retired general and then-adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign — he alerted his former employer, the DIA.
He then attended a “defensive” or “protective” briefing before he ever sat alongside Vladimir Putin at the Russia Today (RT) dinner, or before he talked with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The briefing educated and sensitized Flynn to possible efforts by his Russian host to compromise the former high-ranking defense official and prepared him for conversations in which he could potentially extract intelligence for U.S. agencies such as the DIA.
When Flynn returned from Moscow, he spent time briefing intelligence officials on what he learned during the Moscow contacts. Between two and nine intelligence officials attended the various meetings with Flynn about the RT event, and the information was moderately useful, about what one would expect from a public event, according to my sources.
In other words – when Obama’s former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates publicly claimed Flynn had possibly been “compromised” by Moscow, the American public was denied the context surrounding the controversial RT dinner as the Justice Department remained silent.
Solomon notes that “Rather than a diplomatic embarrassment bordering on treason, Flynn’s conduct at the RT event provided some modest benefit to the U.S. intelligence community, something that many former military and intelligence officers continue to offer their country after retirement when they keep security clearances.”