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The CIA really is out to get General Flynn

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-02-13 14:53|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Author Spengler nailed it, dead on. Flynn refused to be a Klingon surrogate at DIA like his lap-dog predecessors. There were other issues at DIA as well (not found in this article) dealing with DIA's clandestine collection capabilities. Klingon turf issues as it were. The new Director Mike Pompeo has his hands full.

BLUF from the article: "Flynn is the one senior US intelligence officer with the guts to blow the whistle on a series of catastrophic intelligence and operational failures. The available facts point to the conclusion that elements of the humiliated (and perhaps soon-to-be-unemployed) intelligence community is trying to exact vengeance against a principled and patriotic officer. When the Turkish smear against Flynn came out in November, I smelled a rat. The present affair stinks like a dumpster full of dead rats."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-13 16:14|| 2017-02-13 16:14|| Front Page Top

#2 If any of this is true, it's long past calling in the Marine from Quantico and shutting the place down. Seeking to undermine the legitimate elected government of the US is too much to allow in these times. Once was enough with doing it to Bush.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-13 16:41|| 2017-02-13 16:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Seeking to undermine the legitimate elected government of.........

You name the grid, it's what they do, and they do it with a secret budget. A budget reportable to no one.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-13 17:09|| 2017-02-13 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Nope, their budget is completely reportable to OMB and the Prez. If Trump keeps Flynn, then they will identify and delete these problems in the next budget.

Posted by rammer 2017-02-13 21:54|| 2017-02-13 21:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Tomorrow - we discuss Flynn's resignation.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-02-13 23:32|| 2017-02-13 23:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Flynn is and always will be a sycophant - another Al Haig. He should do the honorable thing and bow out.

Posted by Tennessee 2017-02-13 23:37|| 2017-02-13 23:37|| Front Page Top

#7 He has resigned.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-13 23:38|| 2017-02-13 23:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Well it is sad that he lied. Very bad choice. He was promising. Enjoy your retirement, sir.

I hope his replacement can keep tabs on the National-Intel Complex. That their leaks of his conversations brought him down is testimony to how much they are ahead of themselves.

Posted by rammer 2017-02-13 23:51|| 2017-02-13 23:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Yes, very sad. The entire episode is sad.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-13 23:56|| 2017-02-13 23:56|| Front Page Top

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