Posted on 04/10/2019 4:32:05 AM PDT by billorites
I am more and more coming around to the opinion of David Goldman and Michael Ledeen.
The Russia hoax was aimed at Michael Flynn and his role as a Trump advisor.
It was all about General Flynn. I think it began on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, when Flynn changed the way we did intelligence against the likes of Zarqawi, bin Laden, the Taliban, and their allies.
General Flynn saw that our battlefield intelligence was too slow. We collected information from the Middle East and sent it back to Washington, where men with stars on their shoulders and others at the civilian intel agencies chewed it over, decided what to do, and sent instructions back to the war zone. By the time all that happened, the battlefield had changed. Flynn short-circuited this cumbersome bureaucratic procedure and moved the whole enterprise to the war itself. The new methods were light years faster. Intel went to local analysts, new actions were ordered from men on the battlefield (Flynn famously didn’t care about rank or status) and the war shifted in our favor.
I read Dakota Meyer’s book. He was denied permission to accompany his Civil Affairs unit into an Afghan village because he was being punished for shooting at Taliban tribesmen firing mortar rounds into his base camp. The reason ? They were “not in uniform.” The ROE of the Obama administration saved his life as the unit he should have been with was ambushed and killed. He made attempts to rescue them, resulting in his award the Medal of Honor.
On 8 September 2009, near the village of Ganjgal, Meyer learned that three Marines and a Navy Corpsman, who were members of Meyer’s squad and his friends, were missing after being ambushed by a group of insurgents. Under enemy fire, Meyer entered an area known to be inhabited by insurgents and eventually found the four missing servicemen dead and stripped of their weapons, body armor and radios. There he saw a Taliban fighter trying to take the bodies. The fighter tackled Meyer, and after a brief scuffle, Meyer grabbed a baseball-sized rock and beat the fighter to death.[8] With the help of Afghan soldiers, he moved the bodies to a safer area where they could be extracted.[9] During his search, Meyer “personally evacuated 12 friendly wounded and provided cover for another 24 Marines and soldiers to escape likely death at the hands of a numerically superior and determined foe.”
In his account of the battle in his book, he relates how it took hours to get permission for artillery to respond to the ambush.
In the book, Meyer makes a case for Army Captain William D. Swenson to be awarded the Medal of Honor. Swenson had criticized Army officers at the nearby Forward Operating Base Joyce for not providing fire support, the resulting political fallout not conducive to awarding him the medal. Those same officers were later cited following a military investigation for “negligent” leadership leading “directly to the loss of life” on the battlefield. Swenson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 15 October 2013
Obama’s Army. Flynn got into this argument.
By the time he was made head of DIA, Flynn had a real problem with the intelligence community, first because he had marginalized them, and for another reason: Flynn was determined to do a full-scale analysis of the (many) secret missions that had not been carried out over the years, and he wanted an accounting of the considerable funds allocated for them. He was not “A Team Player,” more than ever a major consideration to the Obama team. For example, the Benghazi attack on the consulate.
Barack Obama replaced General Carter Ham at AFRICOM after the general made a move to help the US security officials at the Benghazi consulate and annex. Ham was replaced by Gen. David Rodriquez on October 18.
The information I heard today was that General [Carter] Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command.
The story continues that now General Rodiguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africom.
Sure enough Obama nominated Gen. David Rodriguez to replace Gen. Carter Ham as commander of U.S. Africa Command.
Flynn got caught in this crossfire.
After Flynn was driven out of his post at DIA, things got even more threatening to the intelligence officials, as he became a prime advisor to candidate Trump and, early in the campaign, other Republicans. After the 2016 elections, the IC officials went all-out to keep him out of the White House, sometimes resorting to spreading ridiculous stories. President Obama warned Trump not to appoint Flynn as national security advisor, and Susan Rice actually warned the president-elect that Flynn might be in violation of the Logan Act, for which nobody has ever been prosecuted, and hence blackmailable by the Russians. Meanwhile, the Bureau had opened a counterintelligence investigation of Flynn’s activities. His digital communications were monitored, “unmasked” at the request of Obama officials, and leaked to friendly journalists.
Then Trump got involved in this war of the IC on Flynn.
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 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 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.
Flynn was bankrupted by Mueller at the urging of the Intelligence Community, led by Brennan and Clapper.
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.
The Benghazi incident never explained why the ambassador was in that consulate that night after complaining about security. What was going on ? As part of a revived Hillary Clinton investigation, we might find out.
Trump needs to pardon Flynn and reinstate him.
Not sure that’s true. You had yahoos suggesting in the summer of 2016 that a Trump Tower server was getting secret messages from Putin.
The Russia Hoax was originally aimed at Flynn, not Trump.
Horsehockey. Let the excuse making begin. The conspiracy began long before Trump chose Flynn. More deepstate “look over here” hogwash.
Let the cover your ass begin.
General Flynn made the mistake of ANNOUNCING he was going to stab the deep state intel industry in the heart and they got to him first. At this level of the military industrial complex president Ike warned us all about in his departure speech, they’ll destroy whomever they need to to protect the “family”.
“the opinion of David Goldman and Michael Ledeen.”
So that’s how the neocons are going to try to whitewash this fiasco now that’s it’s over. Let’s see if David Frum or any of the others pick up on this line of propaganda.
There are some excellent comments below the article.
Bull$hit! Lock her up! and all others that were involved. It’s time for Democrat crooks and crooked FBI agents to end up in PRISON. For many years.
Bump for later.
Perhaps that’s their next move...deflect their coup plotting and spying to someone else and imply that Trump ‘accidentally’ got caught up in it.
Nonsense!! Flynn is small potatoes in the scheme of the libs to crucify this president. This piece seems to be a new tac in the plan of the deep state to minimize what we know to be a full scale frontal attacked on the president with the goal of his removal from office.
Exactly!
I have absolutely no doubt that the SOB was setting up the President.
I also believe Comey was wearing a wire at those meetings. Why? Because of his response when the President said....maybe there are recordings.....Comey responded...."Oh Lordy...I hope so".
The comment appears to be "the cover up". It's a very weird response.
Since everyone knew sending information back to Washington costs lives and opportunity, what were the people in Washington getting out of a bad system?
It's money or power... so, which one was it?
Flynn should be pardoned when the air clears but not put back in his old position. The lying to Pence makes that impossible. But he does have a place - and a voice that should be listened to.
Its not a coup if they weren’t trying to take down the President?
lies and more lies. Intel sucks and lies.
Right after the Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Comey, McCabe, Strock, et al. rotary fan five-hole Guillotine group beheading video, pardon Flynn so he can p!ss on their still-twitching corpses.
Interesting. I always thought that Flynn did not deserve his treatment at the hands of Mueller. But my perception is colored by my view being from the outside looking in.
Anybody who is that reckless should be disqualified from working in any national security post.
NO. It was always to get Trump.
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