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Flynn — whose impressive resume includes his time as a lieutenant general of the United States Army, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, and national security adviser under President Donald Trump — said that when he got into his job as the DIA director, he discovered the “deep levels of corruption” were even more extensive than he had known.
“What I discovered was that was none of the case. And when you start to interoperate with other organizations like the CIA, or the NSA, National Security Agency, or other intelligence agencies—I also had FBI components inside of the CIA… And I knew some of this going in,” Flynn said, adding that he was known as a “reformer” who came in to “fix things.”
“Now people see it for what it is, and they had to get rid of me right away. And they did. They did a masterful job. And it wasn’t just the Obama administration. There were people around President Trump — and I’ll tease that out there, Mike — because there were people close to President Trump that enabled this,” Flynn said, adding that Trump was not totally aware of it at the time, but “now he understands.
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