CIA freezes out top Flynn aide

and I am hoping they will take away clearance for FLYNN!


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/mike-flynn-nsa-aide-trump-234923




On Friday, one of Michael Flynn’s closest deputies on the National Security Council was denied clearance. | Getty
CIA freezes out top Flynn aide

The agency denied a security clearance for a key aide to the National Security Adviser — ratcheting up tensions between Flynn and the intel community.

By Kenneth P. Vogel and Josh Dawsey

02/10/17 10:16 PM EST

Updated 02/10/17 11:09 PM EST


A top deputy to National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was rejected for a critical security clearance, effectively ending his tenure on the National Security Council and escalating tensions between Flynn and the intelligence community.

The move came as Flynn’s already tense relationships with others in the Trump administration and the intelligence community were growing more fraught after reports that Flynn had breached diplomatic protocols in his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

On Friday, one of Flynn’s closest deputies on the National Security Council, senior director for Africa Robin Townley, was informed that the Central Intelligence Agency had rejected his request for an elite security clearance required for service on the NSC, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation.

That forced Townley, a former Marine intelligence officer who had long maintained a top secret-level security clearance, out of his NSC post, explained the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

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