Like I said, Flynn having had a successful military career makes him turning traitor for hostile foreign powers even worse.
Compare him to Carter Page, another idiot willing to conspire with Russia:
Carter Page was recruited by Russian spies but he had no government/military/intelligence background to betray. He could only engage in financial/industrial espionage. He was seen giving documents to Russian spies. Whatever he gave them, there were no government secrets because he didn't have any.
The Russian spy ring that handled him was busted a few years ago. Two spy/diplomats expelled, a spy working under cover as a Russian bank employee (Buryakov) was sentenced to prison. Same bank, run by an ex-KGB buddy of Putin, who met with Kushner secretly in Trump Tower - meeting set up by Russian ambassador, Kislyak. Now the spy Buryaiov is to be released early and deported.
Finally, Trump delivers a payoff to Putin. But it's pretty puny, sanctions still on, still in NATO, US diplomats still saying he needs to get out of Ukraine, including Crimea.
Russian 'spy' to be released early from federal prison | Daily Mail Online
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article.../Russian-spy-released-early-federal-prison.html
1 day ago - A Russian banker accused of participating in a Cold War-style spy ring was to be released early from federal prison this weekend, it was ...
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The twists in the Buryakov case are reminiscent of plotlines from the popular FX show The Americans about a married couple who are Soviet spies operating in the US in the 1980s
When Buryakov was arrested in 2015, prosecutors said he had teamed up with diplomats from 2012 through January 2015 to gather sensitive economic intelligence on potential U.S. sanctions against Russian banks and on U.S. efforts to develop alternative energy resources.
[ This is the kind of thing a Carter Page could have given the Russians. No classified information. Economic inteligence targeting private firms. It's why Buryakov was charged but not the people like Page he ran. ]
They also said he purposely failed to register as a foreign agent to conceal his true role as a covert operative embedded at a Manhattan branch of Vnesheconombank, or VEB.
In papers filed in Manhattan federal court in March 2016, it emerged that the FBI eavesdropped on meetings between Buryakov and his alleged co-conspirators, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy.
[ The kind of thing Trumpov will stop if he can. Poor Carter Page aka Male1 in masked intelligence documents .... he was spied on! ]
The FBI's snooping enabled the agency to penetrate the workplaces of the SVR and hear about Buryakov's work for it, prosecutors said.
Buryakov told a judge in March 2016 that he had agreed to let an official with Russia's Trade Mission in New York to direct him to take certain actions without having registered with the US attorney general's office as a Russian agent.
He said he spoke on the telephone in May 2013 with the official about information the official had requested.
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Eavesdropping: An FBI agent posing as an analyst at an energy firm would slip rigged binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote to a suspect Russian agent, who was required to return the binders so as not to get his source in trouble with his employer
The FBI began investigating Buryakov, Sporyshev and Podobnyy in 2010 after ten Russian spies living in the US, all members of a sleeper cell referred to as 'The Illegals' by the SVR, were arrested, including red-haired femme fatale Anna Chapman.
Neither Sporyshev and Podobnyy were not arrested, as they enjoyed diplomatic immunity in their respective roles as a Russian trade representative and an attache to the country's mission to the United Nations.
According to prosecutors, in April 2012, Sporyshev met an undercover FBI employee posing as an analyst at a New York energy firm at an oil and gas industry conference.
Over the next two years, they met to discuss the industry and other economic and political issues, prosecutors said, with Sporyshev providing gifts and cash for information.
In 2013, the FBI employee began providing Sporyshev with the binders containing purported industry analysis he wrote, supporting documents, and 'covertly placed recording devices,' prosecutors wrote.
In 2010, the feds arrested ten Russian spies living in the US, including red-haired femme fatale Anna Chapman (pictured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013)
As the undercover employee said his company would fire him if it learned he disclosed confidential information, Sporyshev would promptly return the binders after reviewing them, prosecutors said.
The recordings that resulted captured statements of Sporyshev, Podobnyy, and other Russian intelligence personnel from January to May 2013, prosecutors said.
In one secretly recorded conversation, Podobnyy complained to Sporyshev that their work was nothing like 'movies about James Bond,' according to the papers.
'Of course, I wouldn't fly helicopters, but pretend to be someone else at a minimum,' he said.
Sporyshev griped that he too thought he 'at least would go abroad with a different passport'.
According to a criminal complaint, the three accused spies spoke to each other in code over the phone to set up their meetings and claimed they had an umbrella or a ticket for the others.
In person Buryakov would pass Sporyshev a bag, a magazine or a piece of paper with information hidden inside it.
Before his arrest, Buryakov lived in the Bronx with his Russian wife and two children.
VEB was in the news last week when it said on March 27 that executives held talks with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, during a bank roadshow in 2016 when it was preparing a new strategy.
The news came as the White House announced that Kushner, a top adviser in the Trump administration, had volunteered to testify to a Senate committee probing whether Russia tried to interfere in last year's presidential election.
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