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Stars & Stripes publishes WAPO hit job on Mike Flynn

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-16 05:32|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Did he gradually absorb a new, conspiracy-minded worldview?

Translation: He recognized the existence of the Deep State.

In 2010, Flynn jolted the U.S. intelligence community when he co-wrote "Fixing Intel," a paper for a think tank that concluded that the nation's intelligence work in Afghanistan was "ignorant," "incurious," "disengaged," a massive waste of resources. "Merely killing insurgents usually serves to multiply enemies rather than subtract them," the paper said.

A very accurate and timely assessment.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-16 05:53|| 2018-12-16 05:53|| Front Page Top

#2 ...The version I've heard is that - as clearly shown in the article - Mike Flynn was very, very, very good. But he started to believe his own legend, and that's where things started to go south for him.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-12-16 05:59|| 2018-12-16 05:59|| Front Page Top

#3 A pre-sentencing Comey-Muller leak to the WAPO ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-12-16 07:04|| 2018-12-16 07:04|| Front Page Top

#4 I have heard he caved when they showed him they could and would charge his son if he didn’t.

Posted by Glenmore 2018-12-16 10:17|| 2018-12-16 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Do we know exactly what he was supposed to have lied about? Flynn was an intelligence guy. He would have known (or at least suspected) that any conversation with a Rooski pol would be recorded which would make lying about it pointless.

Posted by SteveS 2018-12-16 10:25|| 2018-12-16 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6 A soft shoe smear...

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-12-16 12:06|| 2018-12-16 12:06|| Front Page Top

#7 His "public persona shifted" -- or did the reporting about him shift? After he disagreed with the Obama administration, was the press enlisted in a coordinated smear campaign, the first run of the machine being used against President Trump?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-12-16 13:20|| 2018-12-16 13:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Back in the day, they called it "The Stars and Lies" for a reason.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-16 13:31|| 2018-12-16 13:31|| Front Page Top

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