Michael T. Flynn

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Flynn in 2012.

Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 1958) is a former U.S. Army General who served as the former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and who was ousted by the Obama administration for his criticism of President Obama's lackadaisical response to the rise, cross-border aggression, and the atrocious human rights violations of the Islamic State.[1] Flynn advised candidate Donald Trump throughout the 2016 U.S. Presidential election on foreign policy matters. Flynn resigned from the position of National Security Advisor early in the Trump administration in a fake news scandal put out by the Washington Post using classified information gathered and leaked illegally by the Obama administration targeting domestic political opponents,[2][3] intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media.[4]

Kislyak

Flynn's call to Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, the actual audio gathered and any transcript is called “Raw FISA-acquired information,” and its distribution would be highly restricted. At the NSA, not more than 40 or so analysts or senior managers would be read into the classification sub-sub compartment that contains it,[5] called RAGTIME-A,B,C D or P, where each letter stands for one of five different categories of foreign intelligence.

Five days after Flynn's call to Kislyak Attn. Gen. Loretta Lynch signed off on new rules permitting the NSA to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information.”[6] The New York Times reported,

"In its final days, the Obama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government’s 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections (minimumizations)."[7]

The substance of Flynn's call was incorporated three days later into a CIA memo authorized by John Brennan intended to impugn and de-legitimize President-elect Donald Trump which was widely circulated under the new NSA rules.[8] The Brennan memo is loaded with Russophobic innuendo.[9]

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