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CIA Director Mike Pompeo briefed former National Security Adviser Mi stanley quencher chael Flynn on sensitive issues during Flynn s time in the position and during the transition, despite concerns about Flynn held by law enforcement and the intelligence community, CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.The New York Timeswas the first to report on the Flynn briefings. For weeks, officials with knowledge of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and whether President Trump s campaign representatives had colluded with the Russians were wary about who they were briefing. Mr. Trump fired Flynn on Feb. 13 after, the administration says, Flynn misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian officials.Report: Special counsel gathers evidence on obstruction of justiceFlynn was among the most pressing concerns, and multiple sources say many officials beyond former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates believed Flynn had been com stanley cups promised. Yates, a holdover from the Obama administration, was fired on Jan. 30 for refusing to defend Mr. Trump s travel ban. In May, Yates told Congress she warned administration officials Flynn essentially could be blackmailed because he apparently had lied to his bosses stanley termoska about his contacts with Russia s ambassador to the U.S. Did Michael Flynn mislead the Pentagon 03:28 Mnek Conservative group to recruit primary challengers against incumbent Republicans
MAKING STUFF UP....Bob Somerby praises New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg:Michael Bloomberg did a remarkable thing last Friday; he went to Florida and told Jewish voters that people frequently make sh*t up. His statement was blindingly obvious, yet truly remarkable; given the history of the past twenty years, it s amazing how rarely voters are given similar warnings. People will lie to you, Bloomberg said.It s not just voters, either. I was on a jury in a drunk driving case several years ago, and the defendant had a very pricey lawyer who cross examined the state witnesses pretty effectively and then put an expert witness on the stand who threw up a considerable and impressive! haze of doubt about whether breathalyzers really worked, whether the particular breathalyzer in this case was properly calibrated, etc. etc. He was very good, but still, when it was all said and done, we had a pretty open-and-shut case: the guy was drunk, he was driving, he got ca stanley cup nz ught.But our deliberations lasted a surprisingly long time anyway. There were a few different reasons for this, but several hours into it I realized that one of them was something I hadn t expected: a lot of the jurors simply didn t distinguish the quality of the t stanley thermos estimony. It didn t occur to them that some witnesses had a greater incentive to botella stanley lie or twist the truth than others. There was just a big mass of testimony, and their job was to assume it was all true and then try to make sense of it.The problem was that th