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elleng

(130,920 posts)
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:25 PM Dec 2017

Mike Flynn Was Always a Fraud.

'The fall from grace of retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn is one of the strangest sagas in the annals of America’s military and intelligence services. Just one year ago, his star could hardly have been more ascendant, named as the National Security Advisor to newly-elected President Donald Trump. However, he flamed out of that job in just 24 days, a record. Then, last week, he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about discussions with top Russians, leaving his reputation is in tatters.

How all this happened will be debated for years as the full saga of the Trump White House’s secret ties to Moscow unfolds and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation moves forward like a steamroller, slowly crushing all in its wake. Flynn, the military intelligence professional turned felon, will feature prominently in that sordid story. Now that he’s cooperating with Mueller against President Trump, copping per his plea deal to a relatively minor charge that he may serve no jail time for, Flynn’s role has changed, but it’s no less important.

Just how deeply enmeshed Flynn was with the Russians is now coming into focus. Public embarrassments like appearing at the 10th anniversary gala for RT, Moscow’s propaganda network—including sitting at the head table with Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president—were just the tip of the iceberg. That Flynn took Kremlin money for that controversial appearance should have hinted at worse misdeeds.'>>>

http://observer.com/2017/12/michael-flynn-shady-past-at-dia-and-before-reveals-he-was-a-fraud/

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Mike Flynn Was Always a Fraud. (Original Post) elleng Dec 2017 OP
Good article. DURHAM D Dec 2017 #1

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)
1. Good article.
Sun Dec 10, 2017, 03:19 PM
Dec 2017

I kept trying to figure out why Flynn did not assume that his calls to the Russians would be intercepted. Even I knew that would happen.

Here is the explanation I guess -

Flynn had no idea how the big game was played inside the Beltway, so he dropped the ball when he was let on the field. This also explains how Flynn seemed to have no idea that his calls to the Russian embassy might be intercepted by the FBI, an astonishing ignorance for a career intelligence officer. Then again, there’s a lot that Mike Flynn ought to have known but somehow didn’t.


He faked his way through his whole career and pretended to write/know things that he did not.

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