I guess Marcy Wheeler has lost it on this one, perhaps tunnel vision has clouded her senses. Using Adam Entous from Murdock's WSJ to substantiate your own story? Bad! My linked post @BooMan about Adam Entous was made in this diary with over 100 comments added ...

○ World's Nr. 1 Despot Running Amok and Unchecked

Of course a scammer like the Trump and his people are looking for a bargain ... especially to those who were on his team during the campaign. Trump is very loyal to his close allies. To his most loyal friends, Trump has already delivered through Jared Kushner: Israel - Jerusalem - anti-Palestine. See my previous diaries on this theme.

The Text about Flynn Wasn't the Substantial Role in the Russian Attack -- It Just Linked the Grand Bargain to It

Having spoken to a number of journalists about my post revealing I spoke with the FBI about someone on Russia-related matters, I want to clarify something about my deliberately oblique post. The text I received just over 14 hours after polls closed -- reporting that Flynn had been tasked to speak with "Team Al-Assad" within 48 hours -- was not directly related to the "significant role" this person played in the Russian attack on the US, at least as far as I have been able to understand.

On the contrary, this text is something I've puzzled over ever since, because -- as the substance of the text came to be corroborated by both Jared Kushner and Mike Flynn -- I couldn't understand how he had learned of it so quickly.

The "significant role" I believe this person had in the Russian attack on the US is at least facially entirely separate from the subject of the text, though I do find it really telling that someone I believed had been and was subsequently involved in the attack on the US was in the loop on the foreign policy payoff so quickly.

All that said, it and some related comments inform why I have argued, since May 2017, that the "Russia" story is actually as much about Jared's "Peace" "Plan" as it is about payoff to Russia in the form of sanctions relief.

As I explained, I included the text in the oblique post because of reports that seem to confirm we're closing in on the deal that Trump turned to implementing just hours after the election.

Here's another example, a follow-up from Adam Entous on an earlier report on Donald Trump's New World Order. He describes how Mohammed bin Zayed told an American shortly before the election -- that is, shortly before this text was sent to me -- that Vladimir Putin might be willing to make a deal on Syria in exchange for sanctions relief.

During a private meeting shortly before the November, 2016, election, Mohammed bin Zayed, the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, floated to a longtime American interlocutor what sounded, at the time, like an unlikely grand bargain. The Emirati leader told the American that Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, might be interested in resolving the conflict in Syria in exchange for the lifting of sanctions imposed in response to Russia's actions in Ukraine.

Current and former U.S. officials said that bin Zayed, known as M.B.Z., was not the only leader in the region who favored rapprochement between the former Cold War adversaries. While America's closest allies in Europe viewed with a sense of dread Trump's interest in partnering with Putin, three countries that enjoyed unparallelled influence with the incoming Administration--Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the U.A.E.--privately embraced the goal. Officials from the three countries have repeatedly encouraged their American counterparts to consider ending the Ukraine-related sanctions in return for Putin's help in removing Iranian forces from Syria.

Abu Dhabi crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed termed "a longtime American interlocutor"? Get real, come on. Betting on the wrong horse here. Abu Dhabi has been a neocon forward base for American military power in the region. See the move of Halliburton HQ, the affair of Dubai Sea Terminals, the relocation of XE and Erik Prince, and the early hiring of top notch former US Generals like McChrystal to equip and train Abu Dhabi mercenaries now fighting an ugly war in Yemen with all corresponding war crimes [2016].

○ Yemeni Nobel laureate: Saudi Arabia, UAE occupy Yemen | Al Jazeera |

Ever since Russia's Putin started the military intervention in Syria in September 2015, the Geneva talks ended. Talking a peace plan for Syria are Turkey, Russia and Iran - see Astana agreement. My most recent diary on the civil war in Syria ...

○ Russia, Iran Prevail - Syrian Rebellion Ends

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