According to Yates, the potential for "blackmail" arose from Flynn allegedly misrepresenting his communications with Russia. Nothing deeper.
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My point was that expecting evidence of a material crime is unhelpful because the claims (probably wrong) are of intent rather than success.
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Nothing Yates said suggests "intent" to carry out a conspiracy, either.
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Because she said she couldn't answer.
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Graham asked that directly and she said bc her answer would require classified information she COULD NOT ANSWERhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/08/full-transcript-sally-yates-and-james-clapper-testify-on-russian-election-interference/ …
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In fact, she was so concerned to make that point to Graham she said it TWICE.
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"we walked WH Counsel...through General Flynn's underlying conduct, the contents of which I...cannot go through with you...it's classified"
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...We took him through in a fair amount of detail of the underlying conduct, what General Flynn had done" /so obv it wasn't just the lying
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There was underlying conduct which she went through in detail but could not discuss in public: the problem wasn't just "misrepresentation"
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So 5 times in her responses to Graham, the 1st questioner, Yates said there was underlying conduct that was cause for concern.
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1/2 You are repeating what Spicer said 2/14 "There was nothing in what General Flynn did in terms of conducting himself that was an issue."
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2/2 To which Yates replied "all I can say is he didn't reach that conclusion from his conversation with us."https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/08/full-transcript-sally-yates-and-james-clapper-testify-on-russian-election-interference/ …
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