{"id":321,"date":"2017-02-17T17:48:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-02-17T18:35:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T18:35:14","slug":"the-hidden-story-of-the-mike-flynn-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/the-hidden-story-of-the-mike-flynn-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hidden Story of the Mike Flynn Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a response to an article by Charles Krauthammer, “The Cover-up in Search of a Crime”, in National Review Online, \u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/445005\/flynn-phone-call-coverup-searching-crime<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-322\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-322\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-Affair.gty-michael-flynn-mike-pence-mt-170213_12x5_1600-1024x428.jpg?resize=525%2C219\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-Affair.gty-michael-flynn-mike-pence-mt-170213_12x5_1600.jpg?resize=1024%2C428&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-Affair.gty-michael-flynn-mike-pence-mt-170213_12x5_1600.jpg?resize=300%2C125&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-Affair.gty-michael-flynn-mike-pence-mt-170213_12x5_1600.jpg?resize=768%2C321&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-Affair.gty-michael-flynn-mike-pence-mt-170213_12x5_1600.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vice President Mike Pence with National Security Adviser Mike Flynn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This story is much richer than the matter of a subordinate misleading the Vice President. Be careful, though, the deeper story may not follow the path to a collusion with Russia during the election. The scent may lead to Obama. Andrew McCarthy was astute to mention it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama’s people got a FISA-approved wiretap on Russian operatives prior to the election and in the waning days of Obama’s term after DNC and Podesta’s emails became public. This has “politics” written all ov<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">er it. Then, the always present partisan operatives, entrenched in the upper reaches of the agencies, still clinging to power during the transition, leaked the edited results to an Obama-pliant press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-affair.mrz110916-color_orig-1024x744.jpg?resize=525%2C381\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-affair.mrz110916-color_orig.jpg?resize=1024%2C744&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-affair.mrz110916-color_orig.jpg?resize=300%2C218&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-affair.mrz110916-color_orig.jpg?resize=768%2C558&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Mike-Flynn-affair.mrz110916-color_orig.jpg?w=1100&ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Yes, this whole affair may be a cover-up in search of a crime. It may also be an intense version of the long twilight struggle that is politics in modern America.<\/p>\n<p>RogerG<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a response to an article by Charles Krauthammer, “The Cover-up in Search of a Crime”, in National Review Online, \u00a0http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/445005\/flynn-phone-call-coverup-searching-crime This story is much richer than the matter of a subordinate misleading the Vice President. Be careful, though, the deeper story may not follow the path to a collusion with Russia during … <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/the-hidden-story-of-the-mike-flynn-affair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “The Hidden Story of the Mike Flynn Affair”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8hOz7-5b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertatevirtute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}