Trump Appoints Michael Flynn, Mike Pompeo To Key National Security Posts

Flynn, who turns 58 in December, is a native of Middletown, Rhode Island.

While he may not have direct control over certain bureaucracies like the Central Intelligence Agency or Pentagon, the placement of Flynn directly in the ear of the commander-in-chief may give him a bigger potential for impact than had he been at the controls of the nation’s soldiers and spies, particularly given Trump’s lack of knowledge. He was the director of intelligence for Joint Special Operations Command, the shadowy elite military unit credited with decimating al-Qaeda in Iraq and went on to kill Bin Laden.

Flynn was never shy about ruffling feathers.

The fabricated news story originated on a number of right-wing blogs that were reporting little more than anonymous postings on internet message boards.

The CIA and others provided detailed information about the enemy, Flynn wrote, but not the kind of political, economic and cultural information he felt was needed about the Afghan people. “ACT for America did not respond to ABC News” request for comment “Mr. Flynn’s past Islamophobic statements, and his association with the nation’s most venomous anti-Muslim hate group, should disqualify him from serving in any public office”, Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told ABC News before Flynn’s official selection. The three-star officer retired in 2014. Flynn apparently got sideways with Clapper over the issue of Islamist terrorism. McCaw said that Sessions’ appointment would “signal a departure from the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation characterizing acts of violent ideologically motivated terrorism purported by individuals who identify as Muslim as now being Islamic extremism”.

“General Flynn served honorably throughout his 33-year military career”. That “and several examples of near-insubordination”, led to his firing, according to one former senior Pentagon official. “Radical Islam” is a designation that President Obama has refused to recognize.

Such views, and others including his denunciation of the war in Iraq, have alienated many of his former military colleagues.

His book, “The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies”, which focused on the importance of identifying “radical Islam” and its role in terrorism.

NPR aired portions of the conversation at the time.

Robert Kelley, a former chief counsel to the House National Security Subcommittee and current general counsel and principal at the Flynn Intel Group, filed a lobbying disclosure report with Congress on September 15. By early this year he was regularly advising the candidate on global affairs and national security issues. “It is an honour to nominate US Senator Jeff Sessions to serve as Attorney General of the United States”, Trump said.

“We did talk about North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and I told him this business about him North Atlantic Treaty Organisation doesn’t pay their bills”, Flynn said. Sessions has expressed support for Trump’s proposals to limit Muslim immigration to the U.S, and has come out against accepting Syrian refugees. “We have to deal with Russian Federation”. They are there, and this has dramatically changed the dynamic. It’s not going to happen. Islam is a political ideology. He has also argued for curbs on legal immigration on the grounds that it drives down wages for USA workers. But a military solution is not the end all, be all. He accused the Obama administration in July of failing to design a coherent strategy for opposing the Islamic State group. This won’t be possible quickly.

Moreover, in his RNC speech, Flynn stressed that the U.S.is based on “Judeo-Christian values”, just after he warned about the threat of Islamist extremism, feeding into the “holy war” myth about wars in the Middle East. “So I think it’s appropriate to begin to discuss this”. “We should all ask ourselves what it means that we have a president-elect that causes white supremacists to squeal with joy”. This Raqqa is their headquarters in Syria.

“The president-elect is a man of action, and we’ve got a great number of men and women with great qualifications who look forward to serving in this administration”, Vice President-elect Mike Pence told reporters in NY.