"This is a rough town for honorable people". Someone said that in defense of Mike Flynn. What was honorable about what he did?

This is a really tough town for liars and bullies and cheats it seems, because now everyone is watching these turds screw up.   I know nothing about this man.  From this bio, it sounds like he is anti-establishment, but for the exact wrong reasons.  He wants to take out radical Islamists and any time I hear that diatribe, it is always by some war hawk that has an out of control ego.  SO, maybe this guy knows a lot and is making enemies because he is going against the RIGHT by supporting the LEFT or he is going against the RIGHT by just being even more extreme.    Or he is supporting the extreme LEFT. I mean which is it anyway?

Anytime that Machine in place in Washington DC gets threatened in any manner where the majority rules and that majority is comprised of idiots like we have in place now?   Anyone that stands out and can be counted as a nay-sayer to them will be ousted.  They can say all they want to about nonsense like he was mean to the staff.  Who ever cared about that before? 



Feb. 14, 2017, 10:01 a.m. EST
Mike Flynn’s Brief White House Stint Caps Contentious Career
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By Paul Sonne

Mike Flynn’s arrival at the White House last month followed a military career and post-military life marked by contentious periods.

None, it turned out, would be as widely followed as his latest controversy, which led to his resignation Monday after revelations that he didn’t fully explain communications he had late last year with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.

Mr. Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, served less than four weeks as President Donald Trump ’s national security adviser, stepping down amid pressure over his contacts with Ambassador Sergey Kislyak .

During his 33-year career in the U.S. armed forces, Mr. Flynn made his name as a widely respected Army officer known for his candor and unorthodox sensibilities about intelligence and military operations.

In statements and writings, Mr. Flynn, 58 years old, has said the U.S. needs to appreciate the scope of the threat from radical Islamists who want to destroy the country. “We’re in a world war,” he wrote in a book published last summer. “But very few Americans recognize it, and fewer still have any idea how to win it.”
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As a general, he served in top roles across the military, including as director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By the end of his military tenure, he had become a maverick within the ranks of the normally deferential and apolitical corps of “general officers,” the military’s top-ranking officials. In 2010, Mr. Flynn published a paper lambasting the military intelligence community for deficiencies in its approach to intelligence collection, taking the unusual step of releasing the study through the Center for a New American Security, a center-left think tank in Washington.

Some officials at the Pentagon said they saw his decision to go to an external think tank to air his grievances as thumbing his nose at the establishment.

Still, he rose through the ranks. His military career culminated in his 2012 appointment to run the Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. military’s answer to the Central Intelligence Agency. During his two-year tenure atop the agency, Mr. Flynn tried to overhaul the way the U.S. military treats intelligence but also clashed with superiors and counterparts, officials and colleagues said.

Ultimately, James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, and Michael Vickers, then-undersecretary of defense for intelligence, removed him from the post in 2014, forcing his retirement. In a July 9, 2016, article in the New York Post, Mr. Flynn wrote that he had been fired for the stand he took “on radical Islamism and the expansion of al Qaeda and its associated movements,” describing his anger at the decision.

Mr. Flynn argued that the Obama administration rested on its laurels after killing Osama bin Laden in 2011 and underestimated the depth of the threat from al Qaeda and its remnants. After U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq, operatives who had led al Qaeda in Iraq coalesced to form Islamic State and swept the country in 2014, seizing large swaths of territory in the face of an ill-prepared Iraqi military.

Others suggested different reasons for Mr. Flynn’s dismissal. Colin Powell , the former secretary of state and onetime chairman of the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a July 19, 2016, email released by hackers in September that he spoke at DIA and asked the officials there why Mr. Flynn was fired. “Abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc.,” Mr. Powell wrote, going on to describe Mr. Flynn as a “right-wing nutty.” This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at February 14, 2017 1:00 PM MST