By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives May 8, 2020
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“GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham on Monday expressed concern about former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s requests for immunity from prosecution over ongoing investigations into whether members of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had inappropriate contacts with Russian officials. “The whole situation with Gen. Flynn is a bit bizarre,” Graham told CNN Monday. “He's said in the past nobody asks for immunity unless they have committed a crime. I'm not so sure that's true — as a lawyer I know that always that is not true. But the whole situation is really strange.”Now the South Carolina Senator is on Fox News telling ‘Tick Tock’ Hannity about his job now that the Justice Department has dropped their case against Flynn. "So my job is to try to coherently, without revenge but with accountability in mind, explain to the American people how the system failed, how and why. I am going to start with the General Flynn case. As soon as his case is dismissed, we will be pursuing the Flynn investigation to try to explain how it got so off the rails, starting with offering General Flynn a chance to come to the committee and tell the country what it was like to go through this," said Graham.” (Fox News, May 8, 2020).
“Graham is one of several Republican legislators who expressed concern about Flynn’s ties to Russia after it was revealed that Flynn misled officials over the nature of conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., which prompted him to resign. Since then, Flynn has faced a separate investigation into the payments he received from foreign governments without receiving proper approval from the State Department. Last week, Flynn offered to testify to the FBI and to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees about possible Trump-Russia ties in exchange for immunity, a request that has so far not been granted.”Now Graham’s telling an unquestioning Hannity ‘We must explain to Americans ‘how and why the system failed”’?!
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.