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Why Obama, the FBI, and the CIA Orchestrated the Takedown of General Michael Flynn – Part 1

Guest post by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

This article is Part 1 of a two-part series investigating why President Obama, the FBI, and the CIA masterminded a plot to destroy the career of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. Part 1 covers the period up to and including Obama’s decision to fire General Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on April 30, 2014. Part 2 will cover Obama’s continued determination to ruin General Flynn’s career. Part 2 resumes the analysis, beginning with January 4, 2017, the day the FBI cleared Flynn of “Russian collusion” in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Part 2 concludes on December 1, 2017, when Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI concerning his telephone conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition months following the 2016 presidential election.

The Obama administration’s persecution of Lt. General Michael T. Flynn clarifies the degree to which Barack Obama, the FBI, and the CIA orchestrated the coup d’état that threatened to incarcerate Flynn while working clandestinely to deny Donald Trump a second term as president. Obama’s relentless determination to destroy Flynn also clarifies how much he feared Flynn. Why? Because Flynn was a national security expert in counterintelligence who understood cyber warfare. If anyone in the United States could expose the Obama-directed coup d’état Obama planned in his “fundamental” change of the USA into a neo-Marxist Stalinist state, it was Lt. General Flynn.

In an Oval Office meeting at the White House on November 10, 2016, less than 48 hours after the presidential election, President Barack Obama warned Trump not to put General Michael Flynn on his White House staff. Specifically, Obama explained to Trump that he had “profound concerns” about putting Flynn in a sensitive, high-level national security post. In 2014, Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reportedly because of Flynn’s opposition to Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran. Other reports indicate Flynn had said Islam is a “cancer.” On November 18, 2016, Trump appointed Flynn, his national security advisor. On November 21, 2016, the Associated Press reported: “Of all Trump’s choices, White House officials said it was the selection of Flynn that felt like the most devastating blow, given the immense authority the national security advisor has over matters of war and peace.”

The question is burning for an answer: Why did Barack Obama hate General Flynn? In answering this question, we must remember that Obama’s animosity toward Flynn began in 2012 when Obama was running for re-election.

On April 17, 2012, President Obama nominated General Flynn for reappointment to lieutenant general. In the same announcement, Obama reassigned Lieutenant General Flynn to be the next director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Flynn then served as the assistant director of national intelligence for partner engagement at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ONDI). Like the National Security Agency (NSA), the DNI is part of the Department of Defense (DOD). Within the DOD structure, Flynn’s responsibilities over “partner engagement” meant that as an assistant director within ONDI, Flynn’s duties involved “cooperating and collaborating with U.S. allies and friends in the research, development, production, and support of weapons systems and related equipment.” Obama’s announcement of Flynn’s promotion portrayed him as an “outstanding military leader and intelligence professional.” Obviously, at this time, Obama had no reason to fear Flynn.

In 2012, under Flynn’s leadership as DIA director, the DIA issued a classified report obtained by Judicial Watch that predicted the chaos in Syria was creating conditions that would allow al Qaeda in Iraq to make a comeback and declare an Islamic caliphate. At that time, the Obama administration’s narrative was that Obama “ended the war in Iraq and put al-Qaeda on the path to defeat” with the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011. Then, on February 11, 2014, Flynn delivered the DIA’s “Annual Threat Assessment” to the Senate Armed Services Committee. In that report, Flynn predicted that ISIS “probably will attempt to take territory in Iraq and Syria to exhibit its strength in 2014, as demonstrated recently in Ramadi and Fallujah, and the group’s ability to currently maintain multiple safe havens in Syria.” In June 2014, Obama must have thought that Flynn had been insubordinate in his 2014 “Annual Threat Assessment.” In that assessment, Flynn did not parrot the Obama administration’s narrative that the national security threat represented by Middle East radical Islamic extremism died with the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Earlier that year, in January 2014, Obama had called ISIS the junior varsity. What Obama specifically said was: “The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think it is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” Flynn’s problems with Obama grew even more severe in June 2014, when his predictions about the continued threat to U.S. national security created by radical Islamic extremism proved true. The extremist Sunni group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS), regained control of Ramadi and Fallujah in Iraq and declared a new caliphate, claiming dominion over Muslims across the globe. In June 2014, Obama had to realize that as Director of National Intelligence, Flynn could persuade the American public that Obama was soft on ISIS because the truth was that Obama had always been strongly pro-Islam. Obama practiced Islam in Indonesia when he lived there as a child with his mother and his stepfather Lolo Soetoro. In a speech Obama delivered at Cairo University in Egypt on June 4, 2009, he said: “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.” Obama always characterized Islam as a “religion of peace.” In 2009, the Obama administration dropped the use of the phrase “war on terror.”

Instead of rewarding Flynn for accurately understanding ISIS as a dangerous Middle East terrorist organization, Obama fired him in 2014. On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement from the DIA a year before expected. Media stories at the time made clear that Obama effectively fired Flynn over disagreements over Flynn’s attempt to overhaul the agency. Why did Obama fire Flynn? The bottom line is that Flynn had embarrassed Obama as junior varsity when it came to anticipating before June 2014 the degree to which ISIS’s radical Islamic insurgency continued to threaten U.S. national security interests. Flynn had concluded Obama was not aggressive enough fighting radical Islamic terrorists. After leaving DIA, Flynn wrote: “We can’t win this war by treating radical Islamic terrorists as a handful of crazies. The political and theoretical underpinnings of their immoral actions have to be demolished.” After leaving DIA, Flynn retired from the Army and set up a private consulting firm.

The truth is that in 2014 prior to Flynn’s decision to retire from the DIA, the Obama administration had the CIA spying on him. In February 2014, then-DIA director Michael Flynn attended a Cambridge University Intelligence Seminar in the U.K. that Svetlana Lokhova attended. Lokhova was a Russian-born British scholar who was taking courses at that time at Cambridge University. Stefan Halper, a professor at Cambridge University, was part of a small group that ran the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar. As reported by Jerry Dunleavy in the Washington Examiner on April 10, 2019, Halper graduated from Stanford University in 1967 and received doctorates from Oxford University in 1971 and Cambridge University in 2004. At Cambridge, he was the director of American studies in the Department of Politics and International Studies; he taught classes and delivered papers at institutions worldwide, including Chatham House in London, the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and the U.S. Naval War College.

On May 23, 2019, Lokhova sued Halper, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and MSNBC in federal district court for $25,350,000. Lokhova alleged that Halper “colluded with rogue agents of the FBI, with political operatives at Cambridge University, and with ‘journalists’ employed by the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other mainstream media outlets” to spread lies about her and General Flynn. Specifically, Lokhova charged that Halper was “part of a sophisticated counterintelligence operation” that manufactured and published false and defamatory stores representing that Lokhova was a Russian spy. She also charged that Halper spread false stories that she had “an affair with General Flynn on the orders of Russian intelligence.” Halper’s allegations had focused on a dinner Flynn had with Lokhova during the 2014 conference at Cambridge University. The Wall Street Journal editorial board confirmed in print on May 22, 2018, that Stefan Halper was the “top secret” informant the FBI had asked to get close to Trump campaign officials, including Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Michael Flynn. On February 25, 2021, a declassified document confirmed that FBI-paid spy Stefan Halper spread the defamatory story of a supposedly inappropriate encounter between General Flynn and Russian-born Svetlana Lokhova at the University of Cambridge in 2014.

(Above Svetlana Lokhova and Stefan Halper)

As early as 2015, Halper had put a report on John Brennan’s desk at the CIA linking Flynn and Lokhova from when they had first met at that seminar in 2014. “In 2015, as word of Flynn’s interest in the Trump campaign spreads, the London-to-Langley spy ring fatten[ed] the file with more alarmist dreck—that Flynn had gone to a Russian Television gala and so forth,” wrote author George Neumayr, a contributing editor for the American Spectator. Neumayr continued, noting that in February 2016, when Flynn joined the Trump campaign as an advisor, “the spy ring move[d] into more concerted action…extend[ing] its radar to Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and Paul Manafort.” Neumayr concluded that British intelligence was not only sending information to the CIA on Trump as early as 2015. Peter Strzok, as FBI liaison to the CIA, briefed CIA Director John Brennan on developments in the early stages of the FBI investigation of Trump before the FBI officially launched the Operation Hurricane investigation.

It turns out Halper played a controversial role in heading the 1980 Reagan presidential campaign “research staff.” In his “research staff” capacity, Halper assisted with a CIA spying operation on the presidential campaign of the then-Governor Jimmy Carter, the Democratic nominee facing Ronald Reagan. In 1983, news sources identified Halper as connected to the CIA’s successful effort to obtain a copy of Jimmy Carter’s briefing book, which was leaked to the Reagan campaign in advance of the only Carter-Reagan debate held in 1980. Throughout the 1980 presidential campaign operation, Halper was reported to have provided twenty-four-hour news updates and policy ideas to the traveling Reagan campaign. Halper’s connection to CIA spying on the Carter campaign was allegedly directed by George H. W. Bush, who had served as CIA director under President Gerald Ford from January 30, 1976, to January 20, 1977, and was Ronald Reagan’s vice-presidential candidate in 1980.

During the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence investigation of Trump, the FBI opened Crossfire Razor, a special sub-investigation aimed at General Flynn. On January 4, 2017, a few days before Trump’s inauguration, the FBI closed its criminal counterintelligence investigation of General Flynn after finding no incriminating information. The FBI’s “case closed” memo effectively ended the FBI investigation into the Halper allegations against Flynn regarding Russia Svetlana Lokhova. But that was not the end of the story. Failure to find evidence that Flynn colluded with the Russians did not quell Obama’s determination to eliminate him.

To be continued.

In 2020, Jerome Corsi published Coup d’État: Exposing Deep State Treason, from which much of this article was drawn. In 2019, he published Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt,” explaining how the Mueller prosecutors confronted Dr. Corsi for over two months for hours at a time in a closed conference room with no windows. Dr. Corsi effectively ended the Mueller “Russian Collusion” investigation when he refused to take the Mueller prosecutors’ plea deal, alleging he had lied to the FBI. The FBI never indicted Dr. Corsi—further proof the Mueller prosecutors were the ones telling the lies.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/obama-fbi-cia-orchestrated-takedown-general-michael-flynn-part-1-dr-jerome-corsi/

Dr. Corsi: Why Obama, the FBI, and the CIA Orchestrated the Takedown of General Michael Flynn – Part 2

Why Obama, the FBI, and the CIA Orchestrated the Takedown of General Michael Flynn – Part 2

Guest post by Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

This article is the concluding Part 2 of a two-part series investigating why President Obama, the FBI, and the CIA masterminded a plot to destroy the career of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. Part 1 covered the period up to and including Obama’s decision to fire General Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency on April 30, 2014. Part 2 covers Obama’s continued determination to ruin General Flynn’s career. This Part 2 resumes the analysis, beginning with January 4, 2017, the day the FBI cleared Flynn of “Russian collusion” in the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Part 2 concludes on December 1, 2017, when Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI concerning his telephone conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the Trump transition months following the 2016 presidential election.

On the same day, Peter Strzok ordered a still undisclosed associate to keep the Hurricane Razor counterintelligence investigation against Flynn open. Strzok apparently realized that while the FBI had closed the criminal investigation of Flynn, the FBI could continue the Crossfire Razor counterintelligence investigation of Flynn if a different predicate for the investigation could be found.

Peter Strzok’s handwritten notes disclosed that the next day, January 5, 2017, Obama held a meeting in the Oval. Vice President Joe Biden, CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James B. Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice attended the meeting. The cast of characters at the January 5 Oval Office meeting included the chief co-conspirators in the Obama coup d’état. Assembled here, we had the prime movers of Obama’s plot in control of the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA, together with Susan Rice, the person Obama relied upon to make sure clandestine schemes were adequately implemented and leaked to the press. The coup d’état conspirators knew the original plan to defeat Trump in the 2016 election had failed. The new plan Strzok was suggesting suggested if the co-conspirators could find a way to reopen the Flynn investigation, the co-conspirators might prevent Trump from being inaugurated. At worst, the Flynn investigation, if fruitful, would boost the conspirators’ developing plan to remove Trump from the presidency before the 2020 election. The subject of the discussion was Strzok’s proposal to reopen the Flynn investigation of a December 2016 telephone conversation between General Flynn, then the appointed national security advisor for the incoming Trump administration, and Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Strzok’s notes indicate that the co-conspirators had a problem restarting Flynn’s investigation after the FBI exonerated him in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. Comey affirmed the FBI had determined that Flynn’s telephone conversations with Kislyak appeared legitimate. Yet, Vice President Biden persisted, suggesting that Flynn might be investigated under the Logan Act, an 18th-century law that forbids political speech from private citizens—a law under which nobody has ever been prosecuted. Biden apparently did understand that as newly appointed national security advisor to the new president, the Logan Act would not apply to Flynn. Strzok’s mention of Biden in the memo exposed Biden’s previous denials as a lie that he knew anything about the investigation into Flynn. The purpose of the meeting seems to have been to find a way to continue investigating Flynn on whatever legal grounds the co-conspirators could contrive.

Strzok’s notes make clear that the January 5 meeting found inspiration, probably on a suggestion Strzok advanced, that if the FBI could get Flynn to lie about his telephone conversations with Kislyak, the FBI could indict Flynn for lying to the FBI. Had Strzok reviewed the transcripts of the various Flynn telephone conversations with Kislyak, he knew that Flynn had discussed the sanctions Obama had levied against 35 Russian intelligence operatives in retaliation for Russian cyber interference in hacking the DNC emails during the 2016 presidential election. Strzok would also have known that Kislyak had assured Flynn that Russia would not retaliate. This part of the Flynn-Kislyak telephone calls would easily have titillated Strzok’s counterintelligence instincts that the Russian collusion investigation might not yet be dead. Strzok’s boss was Bill Priestap, the counterintelligence chief. In January 2017, Priestap’s handwritten note made after meeting with FBI Director Comey and Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe shows the new counterintelligence “goal” was to “get him [Flynn] to lie” so the FBI could “prosecute him or get him fired.”

At the conclusion of the Oval Office meeting with Obama on January 5, 2017, Obama asked Yates and Comey to stay behind. Obama told Yates and Comey that he did not want any further information on Flynn, but he saw no reason to stop the FBI investigation of Flynn. On January 12, 2017, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius broke the story about Flynn’s calls with Kislyak. Ignatius revealed the December 29 phone conversations in which Flynn and Kislyak had discussed the Obama sanctions. The mainstream media picked up the story, charging that Flynn’s multiple phone calls to Kislyak on December 29 confirmed Trump’s collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election. On October 25, 2019, attorney Sidney Powell, then Flynn’s attorney, charged that James Baker, the director of the Pentagon Office of Net Assessment (ONA), reputedly “Halper’s handler” at ONA, leaked the Kislyak story to Ignatius at a lunch meeting with Ignatius on January 10, 2017. The meeting with Obama on January 5, 2017, was the critical decision point that gave Strzok permission to run the “perjury trap” against Flynn that led to Flynn pleading guilty on December 1, 2017, in federal court to one count of lying to the FBI.

Now for the ultimate question in the Flynn case: Why was Obama so determined to destroy General Flynn? Obviously, it was critical to the Obama administration to have Flynn removed as President Trump’s National Security Advisor. On November 17, 2016, Admiral Mike Rogers, then the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), traveled to Trump Tower in New York City to meet with President-elect Trump on his initiative without the Obama administration’s authorization. Rogers warned Trump that the Obama administration had the NSA secretly wiretapping the Trump transition team. After meeting with Rogers, Trump moved the transition team to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Admiral Rogers called General Flynn “the best intelligence officer of the last 20 years.”

Lieutenant General Flynn was the top military intelligence officer in the Department of Defense, Obama’s Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for two years, and one of the nation’s foremost experts on cyber security, national security, and international affairs. He also had the courage at the helm of the DIA to criticize Obama publicly for Obama’s mishandling of al-Qaeda and ISIS. Flynn had the ability to gather the information and expose Obama, Brennan, and Comey using the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the United States to conduct a rogue political operation aimed at taking down anyone who opposed Obama, specifically Donald J. Trump. As Trump’s national security advisor, General Flynn would have made a powerful team working with Admiral Rogers as Trump’s director of the National Security Agency. Flynn and Rogers would likely have exposed the crimes the Obama administration had committed using the NSA to spy on political enemies and abusing the FISA Court process to spy on those working in the Trump 2016 presidential campaign. Flynn would almost certainly have been willing to recommend criminal prosecutions for the Obama co-conspirators who used various federal government agencies to unmask the names of Trump supporters under NSA surveillance. In exposing the unmasking, Flynn would have named journalists who had proved themselves ready and willing to use leaked information to write inflammatory anti-Trump stories.

As Trump’s national security advisor, Flynn would have the experience and knowledge requisite to equipping Trump with the details of the Obama coup d’état. As president, Trump had the speaking ability and the bully pulpit needed to explain to the American public how President Obama, the prime mover in the coup d’état that ultimately became the Mueller investigation, had committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

An argument can be made that a former president can be impeached by the House of Representatives and tried by the Senate. As Trump’s national security advisor, Flynn would have had access to all the electronic communication occurring among the conspirators, going back to the earliest days of Obama’s first term as president. Obama, Brennan, and Flynn targeted General Flynn after Trump’s 2016 election win out of fear they would be exposed as traitors.

When Obama warned Trump not to have Flynn join him as his national security advisor, Obama’s concern was that Flynn would use this new position to reverse Obama’s tilt toward Islam. Flynn almost certainly would have ramped up the war against radical Islamic terrorists and unwound Obama and John Kerry’s deal with Iran on nuclear weapons. But Obama’s more profound fear had to be that Flynn would expose how they had utilized the justice and intelligence agencies of the nation for political purposes in accusing Trump of colluding with Russia to steal the DNC emails. The Obama-led coup d’état conspirators meeting secretly in the Oval Office on January 5 had to feel desperation. They knew they could not remove Trump from the presidency if General Flynn assumed office in the White House. As national security advisor to Trump, Flynn could have developed charges of high crimes and misdemeanors, possibly rising to the level of treason, against Obama and everyone else in the Oval Office meeting with Obama that day.

On May 7, 2020, with the Mueller investigation ended and the presidential election only months away, the FBI dropped the criminal charges against Flynn. Once Flynn’s legal team had exposed Strzok’s plan to entrap Flynn over the Kislyak telephone calls, Flynn had to be exonerated. After four financially and emotionally destructive years of imprisonment, Flynn was finally free.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/dr-corsi-obama-fbi-cia-orchestrated-takedown-general-michael-flynn-part-2/

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