National security adviser and Putin surrogate, Michael Flynn had one of his top deputies rejected by the CIA for a security clearance that would have allowed him on the National Security Council. Of course the reaction from Flynn was outrage.

We have a GOP/Trump regime that is infested with Putin lice and we’re going to really need our intelligence agencies to step forward and do the right thing and protect us from the threat from within. It’s very good to see that some of the agencies are not going to be bullied by Trump, or any of his thugs that he surrounds himself with.

When the Washington Post and NYT are openly bragging about the number of sources that are leaking information to them, you know that the tool bag of our intelligence agencies is rather large and diverse.

From Politico

On Friday, one of Flynn’s closest deputies on the National Security Council, senior director for Africa Robin Townley, was informed that the Central Intelligence Agency had rejected his request for an elite security clearance required for service on the NSC, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. ... One of the sources said that the rejection was approved by Trump’s CIA director Mike Pompeo and that it infuriated Flynn and his allies. ... Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House intelligence committee, dismissed as “baloney” any suggestion that the clearance was denied because the intelligence community was trying to brushback Flynn.

This is a challenge for the intelligence agencies like they’ve never seen before. Never in our history has a hostile foreign power infiltrated our government so deeply. Many of us here are highly critical of the work these people do, but we need them now more than ever and I hope they will do their jobs better than ever.

And a word about Rep. Adam Schiff. I have seen a bunch of interviews with this guy and find him extremely impressive. He’s cool, knowledgeable, and he doesn’t hold back. I think he’s a rising star in the Democratic party and needs to be elevated by the resistance for the good work he’s doing.

RESIST!