THIRD: Flynn gave vocal and public notice that in his role with the Trump Administration, he was going to call the Intelligence Community to account for their failures, justify their missions, and, as Lee Smith stated, “Flynn told friends and colleagues he was going to make the entire senior intelligence service hand in their resignations and then detail why their work was vital to national security. Flynn knew the USIC well enough to know that thousands of higher-level bureaucrats wouldn’t make the cut.”
All of those things put together explain just why Flynn had to be destroyed. And they set out to do it.
BUMP for all of it.
Yes...that alone would pretty much tell you the why of it. When the Left threatened Trump when he made enemies of the intelligence community (in their minds) this was what they had in mind as the mechanisms of revenge.