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Trump's National Security Picks Want to Air Obama's Iran Secrets
www.bloomberg.com ^ | 11/19/16 | Eli Lake

Posted on 11/19/2016 6:27:37 PM PST by blueyon

For years, many Republicans and conservatives have charged that President Barack Obama was shielding embarrassing intelligence and policy details about Iran in order to support the nuclear deal reached last year.

With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln will have an opportunity to declassify and disclose this information. While no decisions have been made, two early picks to Trump's cabinet suggest this is going to happen.

Let's start with retired general Michael Flynn, the next president's choice to be national security adviser. Flynn served for two years as Obama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. Just as relevant, however, is that in 2011 he ran a team at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence that reviewed the troves of material captured in the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid.

Under Obama, the intelligence community has declassified a small fraction of those documents and released them in drips and drabs. This prompted Flynn, after he retired in 2014, to charge that the disclosures were selective. Flynn has said in interviews and writings that some documents captured in the bin Laden raid showed a much tighter relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda than previously disclosed.

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Just the fact that they will "Air Obama's Iran Secrets" is a GREAT. I hope they Do it!
1 posted on 11/19/2016 6:27:37 PM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon

Just helping Obama with his promise of transparency.


2 posted on 11/19/2016 6:29:00 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: blueyon

More preemptive whining from the left.


3 posted on 11/19/2016 6:29:15 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: blueyon

Obama is guilty of Treason.


4 posted on 11/19/2016 6:31:53 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: blueyon

I second the motion....


5 posted on 11/19/2016 6:32:07 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: blueyon

The stench of Zero’s dirty laundry is all over the security apparatus. Heads will roll.


6 posted on 11/19/2016 6:32:40 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (NoHellary)
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To: blueyon
Republicans ...With Donald Trump's upset victory, the party of Lincoln...

we are talking about GOPeee on the one hand and Trump and his adherents on the other. The party of Lincoln has not disappeared from the landscape, having been sold out by a bunch of carpet bagging crony country-clubbers.

7 posted on 11/19/2016 6:32:50 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: blueyon

For the first TWO SOLID YEARS of the Obama Admin ALL that we heard about was how EVERYTHING wrong with the USA was alllllll the fault of George W.

We heard it a MILLION times.

It got so bad that ANY time there was a thread about ANY bad thing, freepers would jump in preemptively with “Bush’s fault...!”

OBAMA EARNED IT.


8 posted on 11/19/2016 6:33:23 PM PST by gaijin
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To: blueyon

If true, a lot of Freepers might be interested in hearing the data.


9 posted on 11/19/2016 6:34:19 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: blueyon
And this is important. The left is desperately trying to overwrite and rewrite the narrative of what just happened, and GOPee is perfectly happy to go along with it.

But GOPe would have been voted into a deep minority except that Trump said he needed them to pass his reforms. In my book he owns them and if they defect again out they go.

10 posted on 11/19/2016 6:35:15 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: blueyon

Can you say treason? Bring it on.


11 posted on 11/19/2016 6:35:25 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: gaijin
EVERYTHING wrong with the USA was alllllll the fault of George W.

A lot was. Who would ever have imagined we could elect someone like Trump and toss out both of them.

12 posted on 11/19/2016 6:36:56 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: blueyon

Why not document exactly what went on the the StatFor agreement in Iraq and air that too.

Hey, why not air the thinking that went into destroying the Middle East?

Hey, what was the reason to turn our back on and overthrow Mubarak? It’s not like he was a dependable ally in the M.E.

Why did we go to and lead from behind in Libya?

Who, What, Where, Why and How of the gun running operations funneled through Libya?

Hey, what about Tunisia?

Why the Eff do we care about some jerkoff in Syria? Why are we fomenting that civil war?

Why are we demanding Europe take the refugees we created?


13 posted on 11/19/2016 6:37:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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I bet it’s 24/7 cya mode at the White House right now.


14 posted on 11/19/2016 6:37:55 PM PST by KyCats
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To: Vendome

I think it will also come out sometime after late January.


15 posted on 11/19/2016 6:40:35 PM PST by bankwalker (Does a fish know that it's wet?)
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To: blueyon

P R O S E C U T E !


16 posted on 11/19/2016 6:40:52 PM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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They should wait until his 1st summer vacation at Maralago and do a total dump...


17 posted on 11/19/2016 6:45:45 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: blueyon

Let’s also air the facts about the Senate standing the Constitution on its head with the Corker bill which allowed the Iran “deal”.
Only Tom Cotton voted against it.


18 posted on 11/19/2016 6:47:15 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: DoughtyOne

We will have mass prosecutions and indictments


19 posted on 11/19/2016 6:47:48 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: blueyon

What are they crying about? Obama said he would have the “most transparent administration is history”. Or maybe Bill Clinton said that. Either way, drain the swamp.


20 posted on 11/19/2016 6:48:27 PM PST by ozzymandus
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