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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/politics/mike-pompeo-cia.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

WASHINGTON — Senior officials across the government became convinced in January that the incoming national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, had become vulnerable to Russian blackmail.

At the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — agencies responsible for keeping American secrets safe from foreign spies — career officials agreed that Mr. Flynn represented an urgent problem.

Yet nearly every day for three weeks, the new C.I.A. director, Mike Pompeo, sat in the Oval Office and briefed President Trump on the nation’s most sensitive intelligence — with Mr. Flynn listening. Mr. Pompeo has not said whether C.I.A. officials left him in the dark about their views of Mr. Flynn, but one administration official said Mr. Pompeo did not share any concerns about Mr. Flynn with the president.

The episode highlights another remarkable aspect of Mr. Flynn’s stormy 25-day tenure in the White House: He sat atop a national security apparatus that churned ahead, despite its own conclusion that he was at risk of being compromised by a hostile foreign power.

 

[Lord Frieza]

"This guy may be compromised, sir."

"Well, we better tell him everything then."

 

[Beer Monkey]

What a fucking clown car of an administration.

 

[KingK]

The amount of pure fucking incompetence displayed by the intelligence community over the last couple years is staggering.

I have zero faith left in any of our government institutions. This country is broken.

 

[retroman]

Trumpster fire

 

[Septimus Prime]

That's such a suck-ass position to be in. Your boss has to have the info, and he completely trusts this guy who is also your indirect superior, but you can't trust that guy.

 

[Jackpot]

That's such a suck-ass position to be in. Your boss has to have the info, and he completely trusts this guy who is also your indirect superior, but you can't trust that guy.

The obvious solution is to resign rather than be complicit in passing your country's secrets to the enemy.

 

[smokeymicpot]

Not surprised at this point.

 

[ErnieMcCracken]

What a fucking clown car of an administration.

 

[Tovarisc]

That's such a suck-ass position to be in. Your boss has to have the info, and he completely trusts this guy who is also your indirect superior, but you can't trust that guy.

Don't discount possibility that Pompeo was fine with it.

 

[Theonik]

The obvious solution is to resign rather than be complicit in passing your country's secrets to the enemy.

If you resign then you put your successor in the same position. Your boss needs to be briefed can you imagine the chaos?

 

[TheCochese]

Worst Greys Anatomy episode ever.

 

[Version 3.0]

Talk about being between a rock and a hard place. The president himself is compromised. So what if one of his cronies is, too?

 

[Jackpot]

If you resign then you put your successor in the same position. Your boss needs to be briefed can you imagine the chaos?

Your resignation draws attention to the fact that Flynn is so compromised that to do your job would harm the country. The government would be forced to give some kind of response even if it's just doubling down. You certainly don't throw up your hands and go "not my problem" in that kind of role.