What Happened to Mike Flynn? (The Atlantic)

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3. Well worth the long read. The author got some respected senior officers to talk about Flynn...

Some people spoke anonymously, yet were quoted by others who were not afraid to use their own names. They were, to a man, aghast at how he spiraled out of control after his firing.

I’d had no idea that in his earlier career he’d been really — well, beyond competent, extremely good at what he was tasked to do. It was only in his last post that he floundered, badly.

He went from a very black and white military world to supervising 14,000 people, mostly civilians. Obama had nothing to do with Flynn’s firing, zero, it was all handled in the Pentagon — yet Flynn blamed Obama and latched on to anyone who would carry that tale and embellish it.

Bitter, bitter. And now untethered from reality. His former colleagues and mentors have been aghast, and have spoken privately before this about the possibility of mental illness or mental decline.

Recommended.