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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
well no, there you get into politics and splitting hairs.
Flynn was paid a speaking fee of $35,000 for appearing at an RT Gala. Technically, RT is a separate entity (more on that later). even more technically, he was being paid by the "speakers bureau", a U.S. based company that arranges speaking engagements, negotiates the fee, collects it and remits the fee, minus its commission to the speaker.
This might seem like a distinction without a difference, but that is the way the law works.
When Obama received the Nobel peace prize of $1 million in 2009, there was a discussion whether this would be allowed under the "emolument" clause which forbids gifts from "foreign governments". Ultimately, a legal opinion was issued saying the Nobel Foundation was not a "foreign government". However, if you look into the law governing the Foundation, you find out all 5 board members are appointed by the Swedish government.
Hard to legally justify that a payment from the Nobel Foundation is NOT a payment from a foreign government, but a payment from RT is when both entities are ultimately controlled by "foreign governments".
Another point, as Flynn has stated and no one has contradicted. He met with DoD officials both before the trip to advise them and after the trip for a debrief, so he was not hiding anything.
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I didn't know that, thank you for the input. Do you see what happens to a normal CNN viewer type of person (me) they receive the news while reading their mail or half looking at the screen and the thinking part gets twisted till they are for against something due to the wrong misconceptions.
We need more people like Bilge Rat and the rest of ya'll too that correct each other instead of berate each other.