03-28-2017, 09:37 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
A couple reasons
1) most of them will never hear about this. This won't be discussed at any length on Fox, and certainly won't be on Rush Limbaugh, etc. That only costs those who pay attention. The rest of them simply don't follow politics at all and won't understand who she is or what Mike Flynn did.
2) the credibility of he media has been so diminished that those who do hear it simply believe it's a partisan hack job
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Speaking of Flynn, his scandal is actually at lot worse than previously thought. That guy apparently was doing a lot of shady stuff including secretly sending political dissidents the US is protecting back to the authoritarian countries that wanted their heads. He had an agreement with Turkey to deport Gulen back to Erdogan and was in discussions on how to execute that.
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Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, reportedly discussed ways to take a man wanted by the Turkish government out of the United States without going through the legal extradition process, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The conversation, which took place during the presidential race while Flynn was serving as an unpaid adviser to Trump, centered around Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.
The Turkish government has long wanted to take custody of Gulen, 75, who has been exiled in Pennsylvania since 1999.
Among other things, Turkey blames him for orchestrating the deadly and unsuccessful military coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year. The country has pressed the U.S. for his extradition.
The Journal report cites former CIA Director James Woolsey, who attended the meeting with Flynn and high-level Turkish officials, and others with details on what happened. Woolsey and the sources said the ideas that were discussed for dealing with Gulen were hypothetical.
However, one plan was “a covert step in the dead of night to whisk this guy away,” Woolsey told the Journal. He said he had walked into the middle of the conversation and reportedly “found the topic startling and the actions being discussed possibly illegal.”
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http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...-turkey-report
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