I think some are overlooking what "story" Flynn is so eager to tell. It likely has some bearing on why Dems are reluctant to grant his immunity.
- On April 17, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Flynn to be the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn took command of the DIA in July 2012.
- On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later that year, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position.
It was heavily reported Flynn's 'retirement' was forced due to his resistance and speaking out against Obama's spin narrative pertaining to AQ, ISIS, and Syria.
This guy knows where the bodies are buried while serving as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012-14 under Obama. He also has an ax to grind for getting shoved out for speaking the truth on the Islamist threat. Dems might want to reconsider opening Pandora's Box with Flynn...
"According to what Flynn had told in one final interview as DIA director, he felt like a lone voice in thinking that the United States was less safe from the threat of Islamic terrorism in 2014 than it was prior to the 9/11 attacks; he went on to believe that he was pressed into retirement for questioning the Obama administration's public narrative that Al Qaeda was close to defeat.
Journalist Seymour Hersh wrote that "Flynn confirmed [to Hersh] that his agency had sent a constant stream of classified warnings ... about the dire consequences of toppling [Syrian President] Assad." Flynn recounted that his agency was producing intelligence reports indicating that radical Islamists were the main force in the Syrian insurgency and "that Turkey was looking the other way when it came to the growth of the Islamic State inside Syria".
According to Flynn, these reports "got enormous pushback from the Obama administration," who he felt "did not want to hear the truth". According to former DIA official W. Patrick Lang: "Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on telling the truth about Syria ... they shoved him out. He wouldn't shut up."
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