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According to CNN’s chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto, a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) spokesman says that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s security clearance has been revoked as part of a standard procedure, “pending review.”
Breaking: Ret. Gen. #MichaelFlynn's security clearance has been suspended “pending review" – DIA spokesman tells CNN
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 15, 2017
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“[It’s when] questions arise regarding an individual’s compliance with clearance standards.â€
This comes on a day when, strangely enough, Donald Trump chose to defend Michael Flynn during his joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. While answering questions, Trump claimed Flynn, whom we are assured he asked to resign, against the “fake media”:
“I think he’s been treated very, very unfairly by the media — as I call it, the fake media, in many cases. I think it’s really a sad thing he was treated so badly.â€
It is anybody’s guess how this works out in Trump’s own mind, given Flynn’s activities which, Sean Spicer explains, “eroded” Trust between the president and his national security advisor. Spicer said yesterday that it wasn’t that Flynn broke any laws but that Trump simply could not trust him anymore.
It isn’t the press that lied to Vice President Pence, but Flynn. Nor did the press force Flynn to lie. They only reported the lie. Therefore if anyone treated Flynn unfairly, it is Trump himself for demanding his resignation.
Either way, we seem to have arrived at the end of the very short Flynn era. The only question now will Donald Trump be able to get a new NSA in place before yet further disasters overtake his administration.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
