An explosive report from the Washington Post states that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for National Security Advisor, shared secrets with foreign military officers without permission.
Flynn Says It Was No Big Deal
Flynn was one of the ones leading chants of “lock her up” during the campaign, referring to the charges that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was criminally negligent in her handling of emails during her time in the State Department.
And yet it’s Flynn — a military man who should know better — who reportedly shared classified information.
According to the Washington Post:
“A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, ‘inappropriately shared’ classified information with foreign military officers in Afghanistan, newly released documents show.”
This is a man who said, at the Republican National Convention:
“Lock her up! Lock her up! … We’re saying that because if I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today.We’re saying that because if I, a guy who knows this business, if I did a tenth, a tenth of what she did, I would be in jail today.”
Interesting, because Clinton never sat there in Afghanistan, sharing information about the CIA’s actions with foreign military officers:
“The U.S. military opened the investigation into Flynn in 2010 after receiving a complaint from an unnamed Navy intelligence specialist, according to the documents. The intelligence officer charged that Flynn violated rules by ‘inappropriately’ sharing secrets with ‘various foreign military officers and/or officials in Afghanistan.'”
Surely Flynn was disciplined in some way for this breach, right?
Nope.
Flynn Has A History Of Doing This Sort Of Thing
No discipline, no formal reprimand.
And it’s not even the first time he’s done something like this:
“Former U.S. officials said that Flynn had disclosed sensitive information to Pakistan in late 2009 or early 2010 about secret U.S. intelligence capabilities being used to monitor the Haqqani network, an insurgent group accused of repeated attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan.”
Flynn’s son, Mike Flynn, Jr., decided to take the Trump road of vilifying the messenger on Twitter:
Another article by the failing FAKE news that is the Compost..should they continue to operate when they continue to get everything so wrong? https://t.co/m4YoNNnPJE
— Michael Flynn Jr⭐️⭐️⭐️ (@mflynnJR) December 14, 2016
I suppose it makes sense, though. Trump has chosen a man who hates the EPA to lead it. He’s chosen a man who wanted to get rid of the Department of Energy to lead that one. He’s chosen someone who loathes public education to head that department.
So why not choose someone who would share classified information as National Security Advisor?
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