NY Mag: Did Flynn have back channel to Russian hackers?

[triron]

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/michael-flynn-peter-w-smith-collusion-trump-russia.html

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Almost certainly he did

[Roland99]

2. More details from the article...

But Smith, unlike Flynn, was not a famous figure, and initially some people assumed that he might have been working on his own. The Journal has fleshed out Smith’s role, and every new report has suggested that his work was significant. An October 7 report found that Smith raised at least $100,000, from at least four donors, for his work on the emails. An October 10 follow-up confirmed that Smith and Flynn were in regular, close contact.

Today’s report is more explosive still. Investigators have evidence that Smith “may have had advance knowledge of details about the release of emails from a top Hillary Clinton campaign official by WikiLeaks,” according to the Journal.

If true, this would mean that Smith wasn’t merely attempting to get ahold of stolen Clinton emails. He got through to WikiLeaks and was, in some form, a channel of collusion between the hackers and the Trump campaign

Flynn long ago started cooperating with Robert Mueller. So if Flynn discussed any of this information with Trump during the campaign, the special counsel probably knows about it.

[empedocles]

4. More dots

[NCjack]

3. Lock-him-up. (In Leavenworth Prison.) nt