The Washington Examiner noted the truth clearly and concisely: “Democrats are vindictive.”
Following a series of interviews in which Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn slammed the president, key Democrat leaders, and the Justice Department for lies, coverups, and corruption, the Biden administration is pushing the U.S. Army to punish the retired general.
Flynn previously served as the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief and later joined then-President Donald Trump’s administration as National Security Adviser.
Just the News reports that the Pentagon is demanding Flynn repay approximately $40,000 he received for attending meetings and speaking at a 2015 dinner in Moscow.
The assertion of impropriety comes as the Biden administration suddenly claims that seven years ago, Flynn did not receive approval for the speaking fee in advance and therefore violated the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
However, Just The News notes that documents previously provided by former special counsel Robert Mueller indicate that, like the denials of the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the current Biden administration-pushed claims are spurious.
Just The News reported:
The documents, reviewed by Just the News, show Flynn in fact alerted his former agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, ahead of the dinner and got approval to use the trip to spy on Russia’s leadership and specifically its GRU military intelligence unit.
The operation was blessed in advance by senior DIA officials, including Vincent Stewart, the Marine general who had succeeded Flynn as DIA chief. The former Trump administration national security adviser was even given tasking orders and a counterintelligence briefing before he departed for Moscow in December 2015.
In a sworn statement given during the Mueller probe, former senior DIA executive David Becker testified:
“The first week of December 2015, General Flynn asked if I was still in the European Center and told me he planned on traveling to Moscow to speak at an R.T. event and might meet the Director of the GRU.”
Becker added:
“We discussed potential topics of interest for the U.S. intelligence community. I told him I would arrange a briefing for him to include a Counterintelligence briefing before he departed to Moscow. We agreed that I would call him once it was arranged at DIA HQ.”
Becker also notes explicitly that key executive-level personnel were aware of the trip and that the speaking engagement was authorized:
“I next contacted my supervisor, the Director of the Europe Eurasia Regional Center, John Sadler, to begin the process. Mr. Sadler immediately contacted the Director of DIA LTG Stewart by email requesting permission to develop this briefing for [LTG] Flynn.”
Director Stewart approved the engagement and spoke to Flynn about what American intelligence agencies wanted as “current collection requirements for Russia.”
In addition, Stewart called for a defensive briefing to help Flynn prepare for the event, according to Becker’s affidavit.
Documents show that the government sent no fewer than 10 experts to brief Flynn on what the U.S. government wanted to know about “the Senior Leadership of Russia” and “important collection points of the GRU.”
In addition, officials provided Flynn with a “complete briefing on the intelligence potentially directed against him” when he met with the Russians.
Becker’s testimony also shows that he immediately contacted the DIA when Flynn returned from the trip.
“DIA sent collectors to his office to pull all the information he was able to collect while on his trip,” said Becker.
Elaborating, Becker indicated that Flynn “turned over all contact information he obtained on his trip and provided all the information he was sensitized to look for during the initial meeting, including providing a thumb drive of pictures and other information.”
Just the News notes that “Becker’s detailed description…significantly calls into question the reporting of numerous major news organizations that portrayed Flynn’s visit with R.T. as a national security threat and betrayal of his country for money.”
In a move viewed as political, Flynn was forced to step down from his position as national security advisor and charged with making false statements to the FBI and Justice Department — the department leading the current investigation.
Trump pardoned Flynn in November 2020 after an investigation proved that Flynn was “set up” by the FBI. At the time, Flynn’s legal team noted that “the government’s bad faith, vindictiveness, and breach of the plea agreement” destroyed Flynn’s career.
Now, seven years after the fact, tenacious and angry Democrats are resuming the attack:
“Last week, the Army’s Office of the General Counsel sent Flynn a letter revealing the DOD planned to seek collection of more than $38,000,” Just the News reported.
An excerpt from the letter reads:
“The Army has determined that in December 2015, you failed to obtain the necessary approval in accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 600-29 before accepting compensation from an entity substantially owned or controlled by a foreign government in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.”
Noteworthy is that the letter did not mention Flynn’s preclearance from the DIA.
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