Flynn was a pretty big miss
by digby
Your Attorney General on the hiring of Michael Flynn:
“We need to do a good job of vetting, but that’s a complex issue and I’m not sure anyone could be expected to find that. I’m comfortable that they’re working hard to do vetting. But it’s obvious that often times you don’t catch everything that might be a problem. I don’t know the facts of this case; maybe there’s an explanation for it.”
This is unsurprising coming from the states’ rights zealot who believes the federal government should prosecute marijuana users in states where it’s been legalized and backs legislation to force all states to follow the nation’s most lax state gun laws. He’s got a lot of “situational principles” including, apparently, one that says it’s no big deal if the National Security Adviser is possibly colluding with a foreign government to undermine democracy and god-knows-what-else.
The administration is blaming the Obama administration for re-issuing his security clearance in May of 2016 which is kind of hilarious. Just imagine what kind of shitshow would have ensued if they hadn’t. It’s fair to assume that any new president ought to take a very close look at their new National Security Adviser no matter what, especially since it was obvious he’s crazy as a fucking loon. This was already obvious. He’d been fired for it in the Obama administration. Trump knew this and didn’t care because Flynn was his boy and he was out there calling Hillary Clinton a pedophile on TV so that made him the perfect top national security adviser. Sessions was the campaign’s foreign policy advisory committee chairman so he knew Flynn well and thought he was a good man too. This is the kind of judgment we can expect from the most powerful law enforcement officer in the country.
I fee so safe.
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