Don't Forget Why the Deep State
Targeted Mike Flynn
PJ Media,
by
David P. Goldman
Original Article
Posted By: tisHimself,
5/8/2020 8:54:31 AM
Now that the Justice Department has abandoned its prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, it’s important to remember what made the case of Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn so central to the Intelligence Community’s mutiny against Trump. As a reminder, here is what I wrote in Asia Times last November: As chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012, Flynn had warned that American support for Sunni jihadists in Syria had the unintended effect of supporting the new caliphate movement, that is, ISIS. Among all the heads and former heads of the 17 agencies that make up the US intelligence community, Flynn was the only one who had objected
Reply 1 - Posted by:
cor-vet 5/8/2020 9:36:11 AM (No. 404900)
I think Flynn would be a good FBI Director. He wouldn't have to fire any deep staters, as they'd all be retiring the day he was appointed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/8/2020 9:49:44 AM (No. 404922)
The article makes perfect sense. Without constant little wars going on around the world, the intelligence services drop down a few animals on the Totem Pole in importance. It's harder to meddle in peaceful countries and keep spies employed. The war in Iraq was begun with bad information and really went to pieces once Bush learned that it was religions and not people that we were battling. Obama, being a follower of that religion, only added to the disaster. No wonder they all resented the common sense of General Flynn.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Zarin 5/8/2020 9:55:48 AM (No. 404933)
Thanks! A very informative read. Flynn is not a member of the D.C. Club as Rush noted. He got fired from the Obama Admin. because he had a bead on the ISIS in Syria problem - that has come true. Goldman also explains quite well President Bush's short sighted US foreign policy touting 'democracy' in Iraq which was compounded by really stupid and really chaotic policy of the next administration and that has put Iraq & Iran in the big holes they are now.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HotRod 5/8/2020 10:16:25 AM (No. 404951)
The good thing is that now Flynn can speak. Others can also speak, documents can be released. All because there is no legal proceeding against him to give reasons to prevent that. There is no longer any excuse to withhold records, talk to people involved, or redact names.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 5/8/2020 10:27:52 AM (No. 404964)
Wonder who will get Flynn's first interview now...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
czechlist 5/8/2020 10:43:36 AM (No. 404979)
Flynn wanted to change the heiarchy in the inteligence systems 0 had established and he would have recognized and exposed the Russia, Russia,Russia conspiracy.
He was wary of Muslims and a threat to 0's policies. Why did 0 fire him?
0 had many readons to have Flynn silenced and relied on his corrupt toadies to do so
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What a load of self-centered "I told you so" that has little to do with the headline, even going back on the link so nicely provided to read the author's previous article, much rehashed in this one.
Was the Obama Administration and Intel Community out for revenge for Flynn's previous sins against them? Okay, sure.
Why did they go after Flynn? I think the proof is in the pudding: He was an easy score, from the laughably arranged entrapment to his rolling over with a guilty plea (in which he swears he committed the crime charged and was under no pressure to make the plea).
This is the heroic guy at the President's right hand for intelligence...and he folds to extortion like this? With crackerjack representation? If you like...okay.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 5/8/2020 10:54:39 AM (No. 404994)
The President should show he has a sense of humor and offer the job of FBI director to Gen. Flynn. The FBI would be like a self cleaning oven with all the retirements.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/8/2020 11:07:49 AM (No. 405013)
Flynn was just a tool. Trump and we are the target. The Democrats will do anything to get power. The Democrats do not care about our health. If Covid-19 would kill only the deploreables they would be for it, and would spread it. Maybe they did.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 5/8/2020 12:27:58 PM (No. 405109)
Now that Flynn is almost entirely in the clear, he is free to tell Trump all he knows - if he hasn't already.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
GO3 5/8/2020 12:39:12 PM (No. 405128)
Ummm...sort of, but not quite. One needs to clear away the religious sect stuff to understand what was happening on the battlefield. When coalition forces successfully conducted their capture the flag exercise, there were 90,000 Fedayeen and 200,000 Iraqi army retirees remaining in Iraq. This was the core of the rapidly developing insurrection which no one, for some inexplicable reason, could figure out. Al-Douri, Saddam's second in command, beat feet to Deir-al-Zur in Syria. Assad and Saddam shared the Baathist philosophy so it made perfect sense. ISIS is not about the new caliphate, it's about the old Iraq and the Baath party. I haven't read Why We Lost, but my view is that we never beat Saddam's army (see The Arab Way of War).
As to Petraeus, his first effort at bringing in former Iraqi army leadership (Sunnis of you prefer) was in Mosul, not the surge. It was a disaster of such epic proportions that we had to take the town by force - again. Due to this "success" he was made in charge of the whole country???
As to Flynn; OK he opposed the Gang of Eight's war in Syria and that was a good thing. However, his service as Intel Director of the Joint Staff, USCENTCOM and the DIA had hardly anything to do with streamlining intelligence. Iraq and Afghanistan were the most bloated of intel organizations seen in history. Sure, he made himself a target by transferring civilians to the combatant commands, but the cash cow was in the CENTCOM AO and intel took the bureaucratic high ground, riflemen be damned.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/8/2020 1:08:55 PM (No. 405165)
I briefly met (then) Col. Patreaus when he was a Ft. Leavenworth back, in the 90s. Not too memorable, just introduced by a fellow shooter, a LtCol at the base who was showing the Col and his son around the range, and enjoying an afternoon shooting. The most memorable thing was the late teen son's black nail polish.
Ghack! The Col seemed like a pleasant enough person...but hard to know much in a 30 second interaction.
Lots of really serious stupidity in US middle eastern policy in the last 30 years, make that 50 years.
Muslims are a problem. Arranging things so that the Sunnis and Shiites are killing each other and staying out of it is the best possible plan. Working with these 7th century barbarians is sometimes necessary, but never forget that they ARE 7th century barbarians.
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