Report: Flynn Targeted Because “He Knew About the Billions Brennan and Company Were Running Off the Books”
The targeting of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn wasn’t only to take out a Trump ally and provide evidence of the President’s ties with Russia as part of the Collusion narrative – according to Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, it was also to “keep billions Brennan and company were running off the books.”
Powell, who took over Flynn’s defense last summer, told the “Vickie McKenna Show” on 1310 WIBA Madison that her client was “totally set up” because he threatened to expose wrongdoing by top intelligence officials in the Obama administration.
“He was going to audit the intel agencies because he knew about the billions Brennan and company were running off the books,” Powell said, referring to former CIA Director John Brennan.
Flynn was picked by former President Barack Obama to serve as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012, but he was pushed out of the position after clashing with Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and others.
He retired from the Army in 2014, a year before his stint was supposed to end.
In his 2016 book, “The Field of the Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies,” Flynn wrote, “I was fired as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency after telling a congressional committee that we were not as safe as we had been a few years back.”
The future Trump national security adviser was openly critical of the intelligence community prior to joining Trump’s campaign as a foreign policy adviser in February 2016.
