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Home Front: Politix
To Stop the Deep State, Bring Back Mike Flynn!
2019-04-06
[PJ] Why did the Deep State throw caution to the winds in an desperate effort to frame Donald Trump for alleged collusion with Russia--and failing that, to entrap him in an obstruction of justice case? There are a lot of reasons for the Establishment to hate Donald Trump, but one of them stands out. During the campaign, Donald Trump denounced the Obama administration for having created ISIS. That claim drew ridicule from the mainstream media, but it is entirely correct. Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump's campaign adviser, was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012 when the DIA blew the whistle on CIA backing for Sunni Islamists fighting the Assad regime during the then-raging Syrian civil war. As my friend Michael Ledeen wrote at PJ Media on March 26, the Mueller investigation was all about Flynn.

President Trump should pardon Gen. Flynn right now and summon him back to Washington. Mueller forced Flynn to plead guilty to an invented charge of lying to FBI agents, even though the FBI agents who interviewed him about Russian contacts said that they thought he was telling the truth. Now that the Mueller investigation has come up with nothing, the frame-up of Gen. Flynn appears all the more heinous. The Deep State feared Mike Flynn, with good reason. Trump should reappoint him to a top job, and really terrify his opponents.

Flynn's Defense Intelligence Agency produced a now-notorious 2012 report warning that CIA backing for Sunni rebels fighting Assad would lead to the rise of a new Caliphate movement, namely ISIS. The Obama administration threw its support behind the "Arab Spring" rebellion in Syria, ignoring the fact that Islamist terrorists led the opposition to Assad. This was reported exhaustively in specialist media, for example, Brad Hoff's July 2016 essay in Foreign Policy Journal: Flynn humiliated the bungling CIA and exposed the incompetence and deception of the Obama administration, and got fired for it.

If the proper authorities turn over the CIA's rock and examine its underside, the result will be the exposure of an intelligence failure of galactic proportions. The CIA channeled Saudi money into al-Qaeda fronts in Syria and helped move a large part of the late Col. Qaddafi's massive arsenal to Syria. The jihadists backed by the CIA eventually formed a good deal of ISIS. Heads would roll at CIA. And when I say "proper authorities," I mean Gen. Flynn in his capacity as National Security Adviser, a job in which he lasted a month before the Deep State set him up and persuaded President Trump to fire him.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Pardon him, and find a way to help his recover the lost home and legal costs through private funds. I'd pay $20 just to get the guy out of the shadows and get all the reasons he was ruined immediately, I'm convinced because he knew too much. Also, bring back Admiral Rogers, the biggest patriot of the whole ugly beginning of this attempted coup!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2019-04-06 19:40  

#7  Trump should reappoint him to a top job, and really terrify his opponents.

Trump's planning a new Immigration Director.
Posted by: Skidmark   2019-04-06 19:38  

#6  Yep - undeclared. He's not ready for sainthood
Posted by: Frank G   2019-04-06 18:39  

#5  Wasn’t the problem that General Flynn had been lobbying for the Turkish government, or something like that?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-04-06 15:19  

#4  Flynn was caught up in Mueller process crime net. He'll eventually be vindicated. The man did a lot within the beltway intelligence community (IC) to combat the IED problem in ME. Some of the work he began continues. His story and contributions have yet to be told.

His IC mantra was catch or kill the SOB's... "Before the Boom".
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-04-06 12:08  

#3  I'm afraid Flynn will have to wait at least until after the 2020 election for his pardon because the MSM will burn Trump's butt if he does it any sooner. And it didn't take Flynn to know that meddling in Syria was a bad idea.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-04-06 12:02  

#2  Aside from the emotional appeal, it's a very dumb idea, probably as dumb as it gets. One more reason to never waste time on PJ Media...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-04-06 10:10  

#1  Trump should reappoint him to a top job, and really terrify his opponents.

Panic in D.C. if that happens?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-04-06 08:47  

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