Just why did Obama fire Flynn? No one is discussing this. Isn't that important now?

[nikibatts]

[we can do it]

1. Good question. Sexual harassment?

[Dalai_1]

2. Not sure

But Stanley McChrystal was involved I think. they used the term he was not a "team player"

[Boxerfan]

3. He was known as a kook...IIRC

Prone to conspiracy theories & flights of fancy....He fit right in at his new position.

Fact is he was probably groomed & acting already. Then "suggested" to Putin's boyfriend.

[denbot]

4. I recall it was due to Flynn causing turbulence in his agency.

If your the top dog, and your behavior is a disruption to the mission, that has to be a red flag on the stability of that individual.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

5. I think I read somewhere that he wasn't well liked or trusted, and was kind of off the rails.

In a wingnutty way. Or something to that effect.

[Ilsa]

6. Officially, "insubordination," is what I read. Sounds to me like

he was trying to do stuff the bosses didn't like or aporove of. Insubordination is a BFD, I think. I would imagine that if it was any worse, they would have charged him with something. Who knows, maybe they were going to charge him, but took pity on him as an "old soldier," thinking he'd retire somewhere and go away.

[dalton99a]

7. He was an incompetent leader and an insufferable employee

[marybourg]

10. In other words, a perfect

tRump administration member.

[atreides1]

8. His views and management style were considered disruptive and chaotic.

In a private e-mail that was leaked online, Colin Powell said that he had heard in the DIA (apparently from later DIA director Vincent R. Stewart) that Flynn got fired because he was "abusive with staff, didn't listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc."According to The New York Times, Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with facts, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts".

Some of his "Flynn Facts": like when he asserted that three-quarters of all new cell phones were bought by Africans or, later, that Iran had killed more Americans than Al Qaeda.


http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-disruptive-career-of-trumps-national-security-adviser

[DefenseLawyer]

9. My recollection is that he started mouthing off

About his superiors and the President and was canned for insubordination.

[alwaysinflux]

11. Why wasn't his security clearance revoked

Upon being fired?