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Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn

Sleeper cells..

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.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time to fire anyone who Obama hired. If they still want the job, re-apply.

Anonymous said...

They broke the law and are a national security risk.

Anonymous said...

No just remove all of them and do not reapply either
All enemies

Anonymous said...

domestic terrorists?

bayman said...

All lies to get him removed. A criminal offense and they should all be arrested. This has got to stop.