2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Former Obama intel official: Hillary Clinton should drop out [View all]Demsrule86
(71,542 posts)He was one of the architects of the Iraq war and supports torture...he stayed on...as Obama was 'reaching' across the aisle but he is a hater.This has been posted before. Oh and he is advising Trump...if you actually listen to the Tapper video link you provided, he admits it. So now you post is about a Trump surrogate attacking Hillar.y You pretend he is a Democrat...he is no Democrat. He wrote a nasty book about Biden and hates Obama.
But in interviews with current and former U.S. defense and intelligence officials, one name continues to surface as a trusted Trump adviser and go-to man on intelligence and national security: Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a well-known and outspoken critic of the Obama administrations campaign against ISIS and its foreign policy.
In Trump, Flynn may have found a kindred spirita brash, candid provocateur who seems more interested in upending whole systems than in fine-tuning them. He is also the most prominent name to emerge of those who could help shape the nascent Trump doctrine. And that has made some current and former officials who know Flynn nervous.
They question why the retired general, who has earned criticism for his leadership style but has generally been regarded as a well-intentioned professional, would assist a candidate who has called for military actions that would constitute war crimes.
I think Flynn and Trump are two peas in a pod, one former senior U.S. intelligence official who knows Flynn told The Daily Beast. They have this naïve notion that yelling at people will just solve problems.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/09/donald-trump-embraces-top-obama-intel-official.html