Trump Adviser, K. T. McFarland, Lied to Congress

McFarland and Flynn - two liars

The release of additional emails over the weekend have revealed with a high degree of certainty that K. T. McFarland, former deputy national security adviser to Der Trumpenführer, lied in her testimony before Congress.  Specifically, she said she had no knowledge of communications between transition team members and Russian operatives.   Meanwhile, she had engaged in emails that were discussing the efforts of Michael Flynn to communicate with Russian operatives.  It is stunning how much like Trump's transitions team is like Trump's main base of support, evangelical Christians.  With both groups, the only safe assumption to make vis-a-vis anything they say is to assume it's a lie.   Of course, McFarland isn't the only one who seems to have been deliberately lying.  Mike Pence was head of the transition team when all of this was going down and it appears obvious that Pence was lying when he claimed Flynn had lied to him: Pence already knew of the Russian contacts and communications by Flynn.  The New York Times looks at the continuing cavalcade of lies emanating from the Trump/Pence regime.  Here are highlights:

A leading Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee questioned on Monday whether a high-ranking official in Donald J. Trump’s transition team had been deceptive over the summer about her knowledge of discussions between Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, and a former Russian ambassador.

K. T. McFarland served on the presidential transition team before becoming the White House deputy national security adviser. In July, she was questioned in writing by Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, on whether she had ever spoken to Mr. Flynn about his contacts with Sergey I. Kislyak, who was then the Russian ambassador to Washington, before Mr. Trump took office.

“I am not aware of any of the issues or events described above,” Ms. McFarland wrote in response, sidestepping a direct answer to the question.

An email exchange obtained by The New York Times indicates that Ms. McFarland was aware at the time of a crucial Dec. 29 phone call between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak that was intercepted by American intelligence.

If senators on the Foreign Relations Committee find that Ms. McFarland was evasive in her testimony, it could complicate her nomination to become ambassador to Singapore. Repeated attempts to reach Ms. McFarland, who left her post as deputy national security adviser in May, were unsuccessful.

In his written questions, Mr. Booker asked, “Did you ever discuss any of General Flynn’s contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak directly with General Flynn?”

In a statement on Monday, Mr. Booker said that he was concerned that Ms. McFarland might have given “false testimony” in her answers.

“If this is the case, this is an alarming development, and another example of a pattern of deception on the part of Trump’s closest associates regarding their connections and communications to Russian government officials,” he said.

Court documents released on Friday, along with Mr. Flynn’s guilty plea, indicate that senior members of Mr. Trump’s transition team were well aware of his discussions with the Russian ambassador about the Obama administration’s sanctions. Mr. Flynn talked to Mr. Kislyak by phone on Dec. 29, the day the sanctions took effect, and several days later.

Mr. Flynn then briefed senior transition team members about his discussions with Mr. Kislyak, the records show.  Ms. McFarland worked so closely with Mr. Flynn on the transition team that her colleagues sometimes referred to her as his “brain.”

 My thoughts? Lock her up.