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发帖数: 29576 | 1 12/2016巴马要在联合国谴责以色列的投票弃权，女婿让福林联系各国大使推迟投票，
用意是防止谴责通过等老头上台。
Kushner Is Said to Have Ordered Flynn to Contact Russia
Now that the retired general has pleaded guilty, the president's son-in-law
could be one of the next dominoes to fall.
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn's guilty plea Friday for
lying to the FBI is alarming news for Donald Trump. But the first person it'
s likely to jeopardize will be the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Two former officials with the Trump transition team who worked closely with
Flynn say that during the last days of the Obama administration, the retired
general was instructed to contact foreign ambassadors and foreign ministers
of countries on the U.N. Security Council, ahead of a vote condemning
Israeli settlements. Flynn was told to try to get them to delay that vote
until after Barack Obama had left office, or oppose the resolution
altogether.
That is relevant now because one of Flynn’s lies to the FBI was when he
said that he never asked Russia's ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak,
to delay the vote for the U.N. Security Council resolution. The indictment
released today from the office of special prosecutor Robert Mueller
describes this lie: "On or about December 22, 2016, Flynn did not ask the
Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations
Security Council resolution."
At the time, the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements was
a big deal. Even though the Obama administration had less than a month left
in office, the president instructed his ambassador to the United Nations to
abstain from a resolution, breaking a precedent that went back to 1980 when
it came to one-sided anti-Israel resolutions at the U.N.
This was the context of Kushner's instruction to Flynn last December. One
transition official at the time said Kushner called Flynn to tell him he
needed to get every foreign minister or ambassador from a country on the U.N
. Security Council to delay or vote against the resolution. Much of this
appeared to be coordinated also with Israeli prime minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, whose envoys shared their own intelligence about the Obama
administration's lobbying efforts to get member stats to support the
resolution with the Trump transition team.
(A spokesman for Kushner referred me to his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, for this
column. Lowell did not return an email before deadline.)
For now it's unclear what to make of all of this. Lying to the FBI is a
felony and always a serious matter. We also know from Flynn's "statement of
the offense" that he lied to FBI agents as the bureau was investigating
Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and any links between Russia and the
Trump campaign in this period. Nonetheless, nothing in the Flynn plea sheds
any light on whether the Trump campaign actually colluded with Russia to
influence the election.
ABC News reported Friday that Flynn is prepared to tell Mueller's team that
Trump had instructed him to make contact with Russia during the campaign
itself. If those contacts involved the emails the U.S. intelligence
community charges Russia stole from leading Democrats, then Mueller will
have uncovered evidence of actual collusion between the president and a
foreign adversary during the election. Impeachment could then be in the
cards.
But it's also possible that the Justice Department became interested in
Flynn's initial conversation with Kislyak on other, less explosive grounds.
One leading theory pushed Friday by Democrats involves a violation of a 1799
statute known as the Logan Act. A relic of the John Adams administration,
this discredited law makes it illegal for a private U.S. citizen to
undermine the foreign policy of a sitting president in contact with a
foreign power. No American has ever been successfully prosecuted under that
law. Some conservatives urged the George W. Bush administration to prosecute
former House speaker Nancy Pelosi under the Logan Act in 2007 when she
visited the Syrian dictator, Bashar al-Assad, when the White House was
trying to isolate him. Nothing ever came of that.
A Logan Act investigation would explain the bureau's interest in Flynn's
conversations about the U.N. Security Council resolution on Israel. This is
what Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said on Friday: "This shows a Trump associate negotiating with
the Russians against U.S. policy and interests before Donald Trump took
office and after it was announced that Russia had interfered in our election
. That’s a stunning revelation and could be a violation of the Logan Act,
which forbids unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with a foreign
power."
If that's all there is, then the whispers of collusion will look foolish.
Nonetheless, it may be enough to take out not only Flynn, but also the man
who married the president's daughter. | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 2 看来mueller要用1799年的logan act 让女婿入罪。
如果fbi也问过女婿，女婿说没让福利打电话，就有一个向fbi撒谎罪。 | A******e
发帖数: 655 | 3 如果真是这样的话，难怪内塔亚胡见到床铺感动得热泪盈眶。如果穆勒真的因为这事控
告女婿的话，估计除了索罗斯这种靠向纳粹告密发家的犹奸之外，女婿要成为大部分犹
太人心中的英雄了。 | T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 4
老头开始就让女婿促成中东和平，女婿上台前就开始干。这个logan act纯属扯淡，每
天多少私人在做和米国官方外交政策不符的事情。
而且transition team 联络外国政府是份内的事，谴责以色列投票又不是米国发起的，
只是米国要弃权，根本谈不上破坏米国外交行为。
如果mueller真能抓女婿，肯定是向fbi撒谎。
【在 A******e 的大作中提到】
: 如果真是这样的话，难怪内塔亚胡见到床铺感动得热泪盈眶。如果穆勒真的因为这事控
: 告女婿的话，估计除了索罗斯这种靠向纳粹告密发家的犹奸之外，女婿要成为大部分犹
: 太人心中的英雄了。
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