>>Flynn was a registered foreign agent for Turkey...<<
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This was unfortunate. I want to cut Flynn some slack, because $500K is a lot of money to someone who is obviously not wealthy. Easy to rationalize the representation, I would think.
Also, Erdogan is showing his true colors as more and more as a hard-core Islamist. May not have been so clear when Flynn accepted the retainer.
I think he may have been more aware than he'll admit.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, while serving as an adviser to the Trump campaign, met with top Turkish government ministers and discussed removing a Muslim cleric from the U.S. and taking him to Turkey, according to former Central Intelligence Agency Director James Woolsey, who attended, and others who were briefed on the meeting.
Word of the conversation comes from former CIA head James Woolsey, who told the Journal he was alarmed by the brainstorming around “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away,” an operation which would violate U.S. law.
Flynn, through a spokesman, denied ever discussing such a plan. The conversation was “open-ended thinking on the subject” rather than a detailed tactical discussion of a special-ops raid on American soil, according to the Journal.
As Flynn was then working two jobs — one for the Trump campaign, the other as a paid representative of Turkish interests — the men he discussed the rendition idea with could have expected Flynn to share the idea with Trump.
Sounds like he is a catch-and-release with a charge over his head.