As a retired Military Officer, if Michael Flynn is guilty of Espionage (for Russia) would the UCMJ..
as per Article 2 and Court Martial and the sentence of Death be applicable?
I believe that as a retired General receiving a retirement pension, that he qualifies under its jurisdiction. I am also going to go on a gut feeling here: that Michael Flynn has long been a mole for Russia and was directly involved and coordinating for the Trump campaign with Russia and the military and intelligence community have been spying on him for well over a year. I believe it's very possible that the intelligence community has known and been recording and watching him for awhile and they also were waiting to release and reveal this after Trump had in fact rescinded sanctions on Russia. The Trump administration did this last week when he rescinded the sanctions put in place by Obama that allowed transactions with the FSB.
If my hunch is correct, then I believe that Michael Flynn and many others are about to be charged. And I believe he faces court martial and death penalty. And I believe to spare his life, he will cooperate and testify about the involvement of Trump, Manacort, and even Pence....
Just my sense of where this is all headed....
This is really possibly the biggest scandal and story in US History about to unfold...
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I mean, give me a break.
In spite of all the research I do and find.. a lot of it here...it is hard for someone like me, way down the food chain, to know what is what..
....least of the worries of Trump Administration Officials"
Congressman Schiff and many other members of Congress on both sides of aisle know that the shit is coming....
I hope any of the members of congress that knowlingly colluded with them or pretended and ignored will also be losing their jobs and more....
...and this description of counter-intelligence and description of its value to the security of our nation and conveying it to another nation, especially one that is regularly engaged in confrontational nature with US and even an enemy of our NATO allies is seen under the definition as "espionage".
Remember - in December, when Michael Flynn did these texts and calls with the Russian Ambassador, he was a retired general and was speaking directly to a foreign nation, arguably enemy, about taking back national security decisions that the POTUS Obama had just announced where they were giving notice to deportation of Russian spies and diplomats and also sanctions to the Russian intelligence FSB. This is a big deal. Especially since in less than two weeks of Trump's swearing in, he issued an executive order rescinding those very same sanctions that the President Obama had announced due to what Russia was doing in hacking and other activities.
But you know what I really want to know? Is what was discussed during the campaign before the election in communications between Flynn and the Russians. And who else knew.
I believe that Michael Flynn and more than several others, conspired and are guilty of espionage and treason and will be eventually revealed and charged.
I am also starting to smell impeachment in the air....it may be faint, but it's there....
...in time of a war out of retirement, but his retirement pension he said is actually defined as receiving pay and he said that he was quite certain that this as an officer would under the UCMJ qualify Mike Flynn as being under the jurisdiction of the Military Court and could be court martialed.
And yes, even the communication of information to the enemy about things that could relate to national defense, could be seen as a violation of the definition under espionage. He also pointed out that Russian Spies were expelled out of our country in December 2016 by the Obama Administration and the sanctions put in place involved the FSB, Russia's spy apparatus. Mike Flynn would have been communicating with the Russians in this case about something involving National Defemse.
Those sanctions against the FSB were just lifted per Trumps executive order last week.
PS: My Stepfather is a retired Lt. Colonel. He is also a lifelong Republican. Served in Vietnam. Lived through Cold War in Military. Stationed later in Europe. Worked on NATO related activities. He is outraged and disgusted and hopes Michael Flynn if this is all true is court martialed and charged with espionage - the greatest crime committed by an American soldier against his Nation. He said he sees Michael Flynn as possibly being guilty of trying to overthrow his nation if he also worked with the Russians during the campaign to throw it to Trump.
Fanaticism. Mental illness...
I can think of many reasons people spy and betray their nation. Even historically, why an officer like Benedict Arnold would be a traitor, albeit he saw Britain as his Nation. There are many reasons what and why people who seemingly could or should never become a traitor or spy do. I think there are many things about Michael Flynn that we don't know all the details about, including for example why a lifelong democrat general was removed from Obamas military council and what then motivated him to work for RT and then campaign for Trump and then surround himself by people like Bannon, a White Nationalist, why we see the bizarre conspiracy theories from him and even from his son and "Pizza gate"?
I suggest that some where along the line this "General" got "radicalized" and whatever that radical and extreme viewpoint was, led him on this path to betray the United States. He is likely also a Narcisstic Sociopath like Trump and Bannon and many of these others who believe their "truths" and that only they can "save America" from itself. They see themselves as Patriots when really they are Traitors and Enemies of the State and our Constitution.
This is going to get interesting!
Conspiring with a hostile foreign power to insert a treasonous President that is beholden to that foreign power...
Sounds like Flynn could seriously be a death penalty candidate.
I agree that he could well be offered to sing like a bird to spare his life. 
