Sally Yates Was The Real Blackmailer
5/12/2020, 6:50:58 AM · by Helicondelta · 11 replies
nypost.com ^ | May 9, 2017
In dramatic testimony Monday, Obama holdover Attorney General Sally Yates testified that she warned the incoming White House its newly installed national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was “compromised” by a lie and therefore a potential “blackmail target” of the Russians. President Trump can be forgiven for ignoring her warning. It was Yates who was blackmailing him. It’s clear from recent revelations that President Obama and his holdovers had a morbid fear of Lt. Gen. Flynn, an anti-Islamic terror hawk, and were gunning for him early in the transition, long before rumors he was involved in any alleged Russian conspiracy. Just...
How Obama Holdover Sally Yates Helped Sink Michael Flynn
4/8/2019, 12:12:15 PM · by detective · 19 replies
The Federalist ^ | April 8, 2019 | Jason Beale
Sally Yates’ Justice Department had no legitimate reason to believe Michael Flynn was either compromised or susceptible to compromise, yet they carried on as if it were so. In late January 2017, President Obama’s deputy attorney general Sally Yates made a couple of urgent trips from the Department of Justice building to the White House, carrying information she believed to be critical to U.S. national security. Yates was aware, likely through intercepts of Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak’s communications, that the newly seated national security advisor, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, had discussed with Kislyak Russia’s response to the Obama administration...
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe rips Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates in new memoir
2/12/2019, 9:54:10 PM · by Libloather · 43 replies
Washington Examiner ^ | 2/12/19 | Daniel Chaitin
Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe shares some harsh words for former Attorney General Loretta Lynch in his new memoir. **SNIP** McCabe writes Lynch and her deputy, Sally Yates, saw “the investigation of Hillary Clinton … likely nominee of the Democratic party, who was being supported by the president of the United States, to whom they owed their jobs … as a case they could handle without prejudice.” In what he described as a “feckless compromise” and “the worst possible choice afforded by the situation,” McCabe says Lynch and Yates “designated career professionals in the National Security Division as decision-makers...