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Here are the predicates for the Flynn investigation and predicates are cumulative or in simple words, they add up.
Now if you look at these and you are a government official charged with national security, do you say there is a possible threat here (predicate) which makes the lies material or just walk away?
Walking away is what the DOJ leadership purports to be the correct solution.
1. A senior official with a TS/SCI (top secret/sensitive compartmented information) clearance working in the White House has ties to various Russian government entities.
2. He has traveled to Russia and taken large sums of money from a state-controlled Russian media outfit.
3. As the investigation of these matters was winding down, he has phone conversations with the Russian ambassador at a time when the United States had just imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 elections. In those conversations, he asked Russia to respond only in a measured fashion.
4. He subsequently lied to the vice president of the United States and other White House officials about the substance of those calls, causing the White House to issue inaccurate statements to the public.
5. The Russian government was aware of these lies, having participated in the phone calls, and the official was thus potentially subject to blackmail.
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