It just keeps getting worse and worse for General Flynn. The Associated Press has more details about how his meeting with a Russian spy occurred before the election.
In late November, a member of Donald Trump’s transition team approached national security officials in the Obama White House with a curious request: Could the incoming team get a copy of the classified CIA profile on Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the United States?
Marshall Billingslea, a former Pentagon and NATO official, wanted the information for his boss, Michael Flynn, who had been tapped by Trump to serve as White House national security adviser. Billingslea knew Flynn would be speaking to Kislyak, according to two former Obama administration officials, and seemed concerned Flynn did not fully understand he was dealing with a man rumored to have ties to Russian intelligence agencies.
To the Obama White House, Billingslea’s concerns were startling: a member of Trump’s own team suggesting the incoming Trump administration might be in over its head in dealing with an adversary.
So, he knew it was a sensitive meeting – why did he lie to Mike Pence about it? The whole story is just crazy, and it doesn’t give me a whole lot of confidence in the Trump team to vet their own cabinet members. Who else snuck on there?
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