Barack
Obama warned his successor against hiring Michael Flynn. It was Nov.
10, 2016, just two days after Donald Trump upset Hillary Clinton to
become the 45th president of the United States. Trump told aide Hope Hicks
that he was bewildered by the president’s warning. Of all the important
things Obama could have discussed with him, the outgoing commander in
chief wanted to talk about Michael Flynn.
The
question of why Obama was so focused on Flynn is especially revealing
now. The Department of Justice recently filed to withdraw charges
against the retired three-star general for making false statements to
the FBI in a Jan. 24, 2017, interview regarding a phone call with a
Russian diplomat. The circumstances surrounding the call and subsequent
FBI interview have given rise to a vast conspiracy theory that was
weaponized to imprison a decorated war hero and a strategic thinker
whose battlefield innovations saved countless American lives. There is
no evidence that Flynn “colluded” with Russia, and the evidence that
Flynn did not make false statements to the FBI has been buried by the
bureau, including current Director Christopher Wray.
So
if the Obama administration wasn’t alarmed by Flynn’s nonexistent ties
to Russia, why was he Obama’s No. 1 target? Why were officials from the
previous administration intercepting his phone calls with the Russian
ambassador?
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/russiagate-obama-iran
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