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A citation please?
Because:
National Security Advisor
Trump administration transition
On November 18, 2016, Flynn accepted Trump's offer for the position of National Security Advisor.[127] During their meeting in the Oval Office two days after the election, Obama expressed "profound concerns" about placing Flynn in a sensitive, high-level national security post, and warned President-elect Trump against hiring Flynn.[128] On January 4, 2017, Flynn informed transition team counsel Don McGahn, soon to become the White House Counsel, that he was under federal investigation for secret lobbying work he had done for Turkey during the campaign. Trump later questioned in May 2019 why he had not been told Flynn was under investigation so he could have removed Flynn from his team.[129][130][131] Sean Spicer questioned why the Obama administration, if they believed Flynn to be a national-security risk, had failed to revoke Flynn's security clearance.[132]
Prior to his appointment, media sources including The Washington Post and Associated Press had criticized his alleged close relations with Russia,[98][100][133][134] and his alleged promotion of anti-Clinton conspiracy theories and fake news during the 2016 presidential campaign.[114][135]
In December 2016, Flynn met with Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), at Trump Tower in New York.[136]
Ten days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, Flynn told then-National Security Advisor Susan Rice not to proceed with a planned invasion of Raqqa using Kurdish People's Protection Units.[137] Flynn's decision would delay the campaign—which had taken seven months to plan—for several more months, but was consistent with Turkish objections to working with Kurdish troops.[138]
Michael Flynn - Wikipedia
Flynn had a consulting firm prior to be appointed NSA, but there doesn't seem to be an overlap.It's also interesting to note that prior to Flynn's FBI interview at the White House the first few days of the Trump administration, where the alleged crime of lying to the FBI took place, Flynn was already under investigation, and that this was also after Flynn had disagreed with Obama on foreign policy, possibly jeopardizing the Iran nuclear deal.
Extraordinary stuff from the Washington Free Beacon's Adam Kredo -- a well-sourced, solid reporter who nevertheless leans very heavily on unnamed sources to piece together this scoop. What he's hearing is that a cabal of hardcore supporters of President Obama's reckless and unpopular Iranian nuclear deal set their sights on Gen. Michael Flynn months ago, moving behind the scenes to kneecap someone they've long viewed as a threat to the future of their signature accord. There are a few holes in the tidy narrative of a Machiavellian plot, which we'll get to, but here are the alleged details:
AlsoAlthough the president has argued that this deal is good for national security, retired lt. general Michael Flynn argues just the opposite: "I don't think President Obama looks at the long term of what is best for our national security versus what looks best on some report card. For the past forty years it did not matter if a Republican or Democrat was in power; they followed a strategic policy. Tehran is developing increasingly sophisticated missiles, improving the range and accuracy of its other missile systems, and is also acquiring advanced naval and aerospace capabilities. This is just insane."
Experts Weigh In on the Iran Deal
President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and administration officials threw Israel, the Sunni allies, and the national security of America under the bus with this terrible Iranian nuclear deal. American Thinker interviewed national secur...
Looks far more likely that Obama's politicized FBI was wielded against a political enemy, Flynn and Trump.
