Watching this hearing is making me angrier and angrier

This is a massive, coordinated apologia for one of the most shameless traitors ever to work in our government—Mike Flynn—who was working on a private energy deal and illegally negotiating *related* U.S. policy simultaneously

Mike Flynn took trips in support of his private deal and lied about them on federal documents; he had meetings with Russians and other foreign nationals and lied about them; he lied about being a Turkish agent; he lied about monies he& #39;d received; he usurped government authority

Somehow America has been convinced that unless Flynn was being investigated criminally under the Logan Act (which he could& #39;ve and should& #39;ve been) he was clean, when in fact he had committed numerous crimes *and* was a historically serious counterintelligence-investigation target

We now know all the crimes committed by Flynn (FARA, making false statements on federal security-clearance forms and more) *and* that he was the gravest counterintelligence threat atop our government we& #39;ve ever faced—Trump excluded—which is why Obama tried to warn Trump about him

Republicans& #39; Benghazi investigation lasted years and years and years, yet *this* hearing—all by itself—is among the most brazen defenses of treachery against the US I& #39;ve ever seen, and one imagines an investigation of the motivations of the senators behind it could last a century