Fallout Grows Over Trump’s Pick for National Security Adviser

Trump announced that he’d selected retired Army Lt. Gen Michael Flynn to be his national security adviser; Sen. “Gen. Flynn has said that he will sever ties to his consulting firm if he ever returned to government service and that is what he will do in the Trump Administration”.

In a speech before the Dallas, Texas chapter of ACT! “It definitely hides behind this notion of it being a religion”.

The 52-year-old made his name as one of the leaders of the controversial Benghazi committee, which targeted Mr Trump’s presidential rival Hillary Clinton in its investigation of the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city which left four Americans, including the USA ambassador, dead.

“Or like they just killed a couple of police officers with a machete”, he said.

He became a vocal critic of Mr Obama’s, blaming his sacking on the administration’s unwillingness to listen to his warnings about the threat from radical Islam. “I’ve gone through cancer in my own life”. “I am deadly certain that we can not win this war (on terrorism) unless we are free to call our enemies by name: radical Islamists and failed tyrants”. Sessions requires Senate confirmation as attorney general, as does Republican Kansas U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo for Central Intelligence Agency director, but Bannon and Flynn do not. 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”. Reporter: At the Republican national convention, the general joining the chorus against Hillary Clinton. But he said in a statement this morning via the Trump Transition team that, “I am deeply humbled and honored to accept the position as National Security Adviser to serve both our country and our nation’s next President, Donald J. Trump”. In fact, she was wearing it out respect during a visit to a mosque in Pakistan in 2009 as Secretary of State.

The report said: “Having focused the overwhelming majority of its collection efforts and analytical brainpower on insurgent groups, the vast intelligence apparatus is unable to answer fundamental questions about the environment in which USA and allied forces operate”.

Ten years ago we found evidence that al-Qaeda was far more organized and adept than we had previously given them credit for.

“I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality”, added the 69-year-old, who was also one of Trump s earliest backers.

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.

The NAACP called it an unfathomable pick – describing him as a longtime opponent of civil-rights measures.

And while Russian Federation was sending troops into Ukraine and bombing US-backed Syrian rebels Trump often asked: “Wouldn’t it be nice if actually got along, as an example, with Russian Federation?”

“This administration has clearly demonstrated that they can not work with Russia”, Flynn said. “So we all as members of Congress, who have a constitutional obligation, have a duty to make sure that we all live to that standard”.

In interviews and written pieces, he has pointed to Iran as the primary source of conflict in the Middle East since Tehran’s 1979 revolution.

Trump was headed Friday to his exclusive golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, transition officials said, a location that offers more seclusion and comes amid complaints about the congestion in front of Trump Tower on NY s bustling Fifth Avenue. While Flynn did flag the rise of ISIS early on, his departure from the Pentagon came about due to his management at DIA, where he reportedly created a toxic environment in which to work. He grew up in a family of nine. “These are not qualities readily apparent in observing General Flynn over the last few years”. They have two sons and several grandchildren.

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Flynn was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from July 2012 to August 2014.

The outgoing Obama administration has also considered cyber retaliation.