John R. Houk
© February 15, 2017
Michael Flynn ousted by Dem fake outrage and MSM fake news,
WHY?
The experts I have heard claim to the best of their
knowledge that Flynn broke no laws by communicating with the Russians prior to
President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017. Rather the resignation
occurred because of the Dem harassment and Flynn apparently lied about the
content to Vice President Pence.
AND YET the Dems are still crucifying both Flynn and Trump
over a communication that was quite normal for a presidential transition team
from election day through Inauguration Day.
The “WHY” has volumes to do with former President Barack
Hussein Obama trying to destroy the Trump Administration ala Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”.
President should rethink not going after traitors of the
former Obama Administration in draining the swamp – AS IN GOING AFTER THE
TRAITORS!
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Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign
to Oust Flynn
Sources: Former Obama officials, loyalists planted
series of stories to discredit Flynn, bolster Iran deal
By Adam
Kredo
February 14, 2017 3:26 pm
The abrupt resignation Monday
evening of White House national security adviser Michael Flynn is the
culmination of a secret, months-long campaign by former Obama administration
confidantes to handicap President Donald Trump's national security apparatus and
preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in and out
of the White House who described to the Washington Free Beacon a
behind-the-scenes effort by these officials to plant a series of damaging
stories about Flynn in the national media.
The effort, said to include
former Obama administration adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate
White House effort to create what he described as a pro-Iran echo
chamber—included a small task force of Obama loyalists who deluged media
outlets with stories aimed at eroding Flynn's credibility, multiple sources
revealed.
The operation primarily
focused on discrediting Flynn, an opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, in order
to handicap the Trump administration's efforts to disclose secret details of
the nuclear deal with Iran that had been long hidden by the Obama
administration.
Insiders familiar with the
anti-Flynn campaign told the Free Beacon that these Obama
loyalists plotted in the months before Trump's inauguration to establish a set
of roadblocks before Trump's national security team, which includes several
prominent opponents of diplomacy with Iran. The Free Beacon first reported on
this effort in January.
Sources who spoke to the Free
Beacon requested anonymity in order to speak freely about the
situation and avoid interfering with the White House's official narrative about
Flynn, which centers on his failure to adequately inform the president about a
series of phone calls with Russian officials.
Flynn took credit for his
missteps regarding these phone calls in a brief statement released late Monday
evening. Trump administration officials subsequently stated that Flynn's
efforts to mislead the president and vice president about his contacts with
Russia could not be tolerated.
However, multiple sources
closely involved in the situation pointed to a larger, more secretive campaign
aimed at discrediting Flynn and undermining the Trump White House.
"It's undeniable that
the campaign to discredit Flynn was well underway before Inauguration Day, with
a very troublesome and politicized series of leaks designed to undermine
him," said one veteran national security adviser with close ties to the
White House team. "This pattern reminds me of the lead up to the Iran
deal, and probably features the same cast of characters."
The Free Beacon first
reported in January that, until its final days in office, the Obama
administration hosted several
pro-Iran voices who were critical in helping to mislead the American
public about the terms of the nuclear agreement. This included a former Iranian
government official and the head of the National Iranian American Council, or
NIAC, which has been accused of serving as Iran's mouthpiece in Washington,
D.C.
Since then, top members of
the Obama administration's national security team have launched a
communications infrastructure after they left the White House, and have told reporters they are using
that infrastructure to undermine Trump's foreign policy.
"It's actually Ben
Rhodes, NIAC, and the Iranian mullahs who are celebrating today," said one
veteran foreign policy insider who is close to Flynn and the White House.
"They know that the number one target is Iran … [and] they all knew their little sacred agreement
with Iran was going to go off the books. So they got rid of Flynn before any of
the [secret] agreements even surfaced."
Flynn had been
preparing to publicize many of the details about the nuclear deal that had
been intentionally hidden by the Obama administration as part of its effort to
garner support for the deal, these sources said.
Flynn is now "gone
before anybody can see what happened" with these secret agreements, said
the second insider close to Flynn and the White House.
Sources in and out of the White
House are concerned that the campaign against Flynn will be extended to
other prominent figures in the Trump administration.
One senior White House
official told the Free Beacon that leaks targeting the former
official were "not the result of a series of random events."
"The drumbeat of leaks
of sensitive material related to General Flynn has been building since he was
named to his position," said the official, who is a member of the White
House's National Security Council. "Last night was not the result of
a series of random events. The president has lost a valuable adviser and we
need to make sure this sort of thing does not happen again."
Other sources expressed
concern that public trust in the intelligence community would be eroded by the
actions of employees with anti-Trump agendas.
"The larger issue that
should trouble the American people is the far-reaching power of unknown,
unelected apparatchiks in the Intelligence Community deciding for themselves
both who serves in government and what is an acceptable policy they will allow
the elected representatives of the people to pursue," said the national
security adviser quoted above.
"Put aside the issue of
Flynn himself; that nameless, faceless bureaucrats were able to take out a
president's national security adviser based on a campaign of innuendo without
evidence should worry every American," the source explained.
Eli Lake, a Bloomberg View
columnist and veteran national security reporter well sourced in the White
House, told the Free Beacon that Flynn earned a reputation in
the Obama administration as one of its top detractors.
"Michael Flynn was one
of the Obama administration's fiercest critics after he was forced out of the
Defense Intelligence Agency," said Lake, who described "the political
assassination of Michael Flynn" in his column published early
Tuesday.
"[Flynn] was a withering
critic of Obama's biggest foreign policy initiative, the Iran deal," Lake
said. "He also publicly accused the administration of keeping classified
documents found in the Osama bin Laden raid that showed Iran's close
relationship with al Qaeda. He was a thorn in their side."
Lake noted in his column that
he does not buy fully the White House's official spin on Flynn's resignation.
"For a White House that
has such a casual and opportunistic relationship with the truth, it's strange
that Flynn's ‘lie' to Pence would get him fired," Lake wrote. "It doesn't
add up."
White House Press Secretary
Sean Spicer stated in his daily briefing that "the evolving and eroding
level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable
incidents is what led the president to ask General Flynn for his resignation."
A third source who serves as
a congressional adviser and was involved in the 2015 fight over the Iran deal
told the Free Beacon that the Obama administration
feared that Flynn would expose the secret agreements with Iran.
"The Obama
administration knew that Flynn was going to release the secret documents around
the Iran deal, which would blow up their myth that it was a good deal that
rolled back Iran," the source said. "So in December the Obama NSC
started going to work with their favorite reporters, selectively leaking
damaging and incomplete information about Flynn."
"After Trump was
inaugurated some of those people stayed in and some began working from the
outside, and they cooperated to keep undermining Trump," the source said,
detailing a series of leaks from within the White House in the past weeks
targeting Flynn. "Last night's resignation was their first major win, but
unless the Trump people get serious about cleaning house, it won't be the
last."
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Blog Editor: Of interest
of post-President Obama agenda:
o
How Obama is scheming to sabotage
Trump’s presidency; By Paul Sperry; NY Post; 2/11/17 | 12:52pm | Updated
2/13/17 | 8:57am
o EXPLOSIVE NEW HACKING SCANDAL HAS
DEMOCRATS' FINGERPRINTS: Criminal
investigation into what IT contractors did set to blow up; By BOB UNRUH; WND; 2/14/17
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Obama Post-President
Treason
John R. Houk
© February 15, 2017
________________
Adam Kredo is senior writer
for the Washington Free Beacon. Formerly an
award-winning political reporter for the Washington Jewish Week,
where he frequently broke national news, Kredo’s work has been featured in
outlets such as the Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, and Politico, among others. He lives in Maryland with
his comic books. His Twitter handle is @Kredo0. His email address is kredo@freebeacon.com.
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