Article snippet: Posted at 9:29 pm on May 31, 2017 by streiff Let me say up front that I am not a Mike Morrell fan. In many ways he symbolizes everything that is wrong with the Intelligence Community. He is a fairly rabid partisan Democrat who hides behind the veneer of the disinterested and professional intelligence officer. This is the type who gave official sanction to the former head of the CIA’s failed Bin Laden unit, a guy named Michael Scheuer, to publish a book on Iraq during the 2004 campaign that was nothing more than a partisan hit job on George Bush. On several occasions, including during the 2016 campaign he gave at least one interview in which he claimed that the sacking of the Benghazi consulate was, in fact, caused by an internet video. This is something that we have known was false for a few years (see here | here). Having said that, Morrell gave an interview to The Cipher Brief in which he pulls back his partisan fangs and says some commonsense stuff. He gives more information on how he would view the contacts: And finally this: You can ignore Morrell’s views on Kushner if you wish–personally, I’m at a loss to see how an authorized contact between Flynn/Kushner and the Russians could ever be criminal as they represent the incoming administration, unsavory and unwise, yes, but criminal?–but his last observation about the media is completely on target. But I think he may be in the running for the “too little too late” award. To a great extent the media, which was... Link to the full article to read more