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| On April 17, 2012, President ] nominated Flynn to be the 18th ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Flynn to head DIA; more general moves announced |url=http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/04/army-flynn-dia-general-moves-announced-041712w/|work=Army Times|accessdate=April 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/04/michael-flynn-dia/ |date=April 17, 2012 |publisher=Wired |title=Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence |first=Spencer |last=Ackerman}}</ref> Flynn took command of the DIA in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Panetta: Under Burgess, DIA Evolved Into Global Agency|url=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=117250|accessdate=July 24, 2012}}</ref> In October 2012, Flynn announced plans to release his paper "VISION2020: Accelerating Change Through Integration", a broad look at how the Defense Intelligence Agency must transform to meet the national security challenges for the 21st Century.<ref>{{cite web|title=DIA maps out new structure to address 'persistent conflict|url=http://defensesystems.com/articles/2012/10/10/geoint-flynn-dia.aspx|publisher=Defense Systems|accessdate=October 17, 2012|first=Charles |last=Hoskinson|date=October 10, 2012}}</ref> It was meant to emphasize “integration, interagency teamwork and innovation of the whole workforce, not just the technology but the people.” <ref name="Government Executive">], (November 2012).</ref> | On April 17, 2012, President ] nominated Flynn to be the 18th ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Flynn to head DIA; more general moves announced |url=http://www.armytimes.com/news/2012/04/army-flynn-dia-general-moves-announced-041712w/|work=Army Times|accessdate=April 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/04/michael-flynn-dia/ |date=April 17, 2012 |publisher=Wired |title=Military Intelligence Gadfly Will Lead All Military Intelligence |first=Spencer |last=Ackerman}}</ref> Flynn took command of the DIA in July 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Panetta: Under Burgess, DIA Evolved Into Global Agency|url=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=117250|accessdate=July 24, 2012}}</ref> In October 2012, Flynn announced plans to release his paper "VISION2020: Accelerating Change Through Integration", a broad look at how the Defense Intelligence Agency must transform to meet the national security challenges for the 21st Century.<ref>{{cite web|title=DIA maps out new structure to address 'persistent conflict|url=http://defensesystems.com/articles/2012/10/10/geoint-flynn-dia.aspx|publisher=Defense Systems|accessdate=October 17, 2012|first=Charles |last=Hoskinson|date=October 10, 2012}}</ref> It was meant to emphasize “integration, interagency teamwork and innovation of the whole workforce, not just the technology but the people.” <ref name="Government Executive">], (November 2012).</ref> | ||
| On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later in 2014, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position. He was reportedly effectively forced out of the DIA after clashing with superiors over his allegedly chaotic management style and vision for the agency.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 2 Pentagon intelligence officials abruptly quit|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-2-pentagon-intelligence-officials-quitting-203851795--politics.html|work=Yahoo News|accessdate=July 10, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say/2014/04/30/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html |title=Head of Pentagon intelligence agency forced out, officials say |first=Greg |last=Miller |first2=Adam |last2=Goldman |date= April 30, 2014 |accessdate=July 9, 2016|publisher=Washington Post}}</ref> According to what Flynn had told in one final interview as DIA director, he felt like a lone voice in thinking that the United States was less safe from the threat of Islamic terrorism in 2014 than it was prior to the ]; he went on to believe that he was pressed into retirement for questioning the Obama administration’s public narrative that ] was close to defeat.<ref name="Kitfield">James Kitfield, , ''Politico Magazine'' (October 2016).</ref> According to the ], Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with facts, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-donald-trump.html|title=Trump Is Said to Offer National Security Post to Michael Flynn, Retired General|last=Rosenberg|first=Matthew|date=2016-11-17|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-11-18}}</ref> He retired as of August 7. | On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later in 2014, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position. He was reportedly effectively forced out of the DIA after clashing with superiors over his allegedly chaotic management style and vision for the agency.<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 2 Pentagon intelligence officials abruptly quit|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-2-pentagon-intelligence-officials-quitting-203851795--politics.html|work=Yahoo News|accessdate=July 10, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say/2014/04/30/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html |title=Head of Pentagon intelligence agency forced out, officials say |first=Greg |last=Miller |first2=Adam |last2=Goldman |date= April 30, 2014 |accessdate=July 9, 2016|publisher=Washington Post}}</ref> According to what Flynn had told in one final interview as DIA director, he felt like a lone voice in thinking that the United States was less safe from the threat of Islamic terrorism in 2014 than it was prior to the ]; he went on to believe that he was pressed into retirement for questioning the Obama administration’s public narrative that ] was close to defeat.<ref name="Kitfield">James Kitfield, , ''Politico Magazine'' (October 2016).</ref> According to the ], Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with facts, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts".<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-donald-trump.html|title=Trump Is Said to Offer National Security Post to Michael Flynn, Retired General|last=Rosenberg|first=Matthew|date=2016-11-17|last2=Haberman|first2=Maggie|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-11-18}}</ref> Flynn told ] "that his agency had sent a constant stream of classified warnings ... about the dire consequences of toppling Assad." Flynn recounted that the Obama administration's efforts to arm "moderate" Syrian rebels benefited extremists such as ] and the ], adding: "If the American public saw the intelligence we were producing daily, at the most sensitive level, they would go ballistic." According to former DIA official ]: "Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on telling the truth about Syria ... they shoved him out. He wouldn't shut up."<ref>{{cite web|authorlink=Seymour Hersh|last=Hersh|first=Seymour|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military|title=Military to Military|work=]|volume=38|issue=1|date=2016-01-07}}</ref> Flynn retired as of August 7. | ||
| === Post-retirement === | === Post-retirement === | ||
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For other people named Michael Flynn, see Michael Flynn (disambiguation).
Michael Thomas "Mike" Flynn (born December 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, and chair of the Military Intelligence Board from July 24, 2012, to August 2, 2014. Prior to that, he served as Assistant Director of National Intelligence. Flynn co-authored a report in January 2010 through the Center for a New American Security entitled Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan,
Flynn's military career was primarily operational, with numerous combat arms, conventional and special operations senior intelligence assignments. He also served as the senior intelligence officer for the Joint Special Operations Command. Flynn is a published author, with articles appearing in Small Wars Journal, Military Review, Joint Forces Quarterly and other military and intelligence publications.
In May 2016, he emerged as one of several leading possibilities to be the vice presidential running mate for Republican nominee Donald Trump. Flynn was not chosen as Trump's running mate; the vice presidential pick was ultimately Indiana Governor Mike Pence. At the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Flynn delivered what the Los Angeles Times called a "fiery speech".
On November 18, 2016, the Transition announced via press release that President-elect Donald Trump had named General Flynn his National Security Advisor.
Early life and education
Flynn was born in Middletown, Rhode Island in December 1958, the son of Helen Frances (Andrews), who worked in real estate, and Charles Francis Flynn, a banker. He has Irish Catholic ancestry; his grandfather, also Charles Flynn, was born in 1889 in Blacklands, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, and later settled in Rhode Island after emigrating to the United States in 1913.
Michael Flynn graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Science degree in management science in 1981 and was a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He also earned a Master of Business Administration in Telecommunications from Golden Gate University, a Master of Military Art and Science from the United States Army Command and General Staff College, and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College.
Flynn is a graduate of the Military Intelligence Officer Basic Course, Military Intelligence Officer Advanced Course, Army Command and General Staff College, the School of Advanced Military Studies, and Naval War College.
Career
1981 to 2001
Flynn's military assignments after joining the Army in 1981 included multiple tours at Fort Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, and Joint Special Operations Command, where he deployed for Invasion of Grenada in Grenada and Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. He also served with the 25th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and the Army Intelligence Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
2001 to 2012
Flynn served as the assistant chief of staff, G2, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from June 2001 and the director of intelligence, Joint Task Force 180 in Afghanistan until July 2002. He commanded the 111th Military Intelligence Brigade from June 2002 to June 2004.
Flynn was the director of intelligence for Joint Special Operations Command from July 2004 to June 2007, with service in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom) and Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom). He served as the director of intelligence, United States Central Command from June 2007 to July 2008, as the director of intelligence, Joint Staff from July 2008 to June 2009, then the director of intelligence, International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan from June 2009 to October 2010.
In September 2011, Flynn was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
On April 17, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Flynn to be the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn took command of the DIA in July 2012. In October 2012, Flynn announced plans to release his paper "VISION2020: Accelerating Change Through Integration", a broad look at how the Defense Intelligence Agency must transform to meet the national security challenges for the 21st Century. It was meant to emphasize “integration, interagency teamwork and innovation of the whole workforce, not just the technology but the people.”
On April 30, 2014, Flynn announced his retirement effective later in 2014, about a year earlier than he had been scheduled to leave his position. He was reportedly effectively forced out of the DIA after clashing with superiors over his allegedly chaotic management style and vision for the agency. According to what Flynn had told in one final interview as DIA director, he felt like a lone voice in thinking that the United States was less safe from the threat of Islamic terrorism in 2014 than it was prior to the 9/11 attacks; he went on to believe that he was pressed into retirement for questioning the Obama administration’s public narrative that Al Qaeda was close to defeat. According to the New York Times, Flynn exhibited a loose relationship with facts, leading his subordinates to refer to Flynn's repeated dubious assertions as "Flynn facts". Flynn told Seymour Hersh "that his agency had sent a constant stream of classified warnings ... about the dire consequences of toppling Assad." Flynn recounted that the Obama administration's efforts to arm "moderate" Syrian rebels benefited extremists such as Al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, adding: "If the American public saw the intelligence we were producing daily, at the most sensitive level, they would go ballistic." According to former DIA official W. Patrick Lang: "Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on telling the truth about Syria ... they shoved him out. He wouldn't shut up." Flynn retired as of August 7.
Post-retirement
Consulting firm
Main article: Flynn Intel GroupFlynn, along with son Michael G. Flynn, runs Flynn Intel Group which provides intelligence services for business and governments. Several sources, including Politico, have written that Flynn's consulting company is allegedly lobbying for Turkey. A company tied to Erdogan's government, which supports Muslim Brotherhood, is known to have hired Flynn's lobbying firm. On election day 2016, Flynn wrote an op-ed calling for U.S. backing for Erdogan's government and criticized the regime's opponent, Fethullah Gulen; Flynn did not disclose that Flynn's consulting firm had received funds from a company with ties to Erdogan's government.
Flynn sat in on classified national security briefings with then-candidate Trump at the same time that Flynn was working for foreign clients, which raises ethical concerns and conflicts of interest.
Attendance of RT Gala Dinner
In 2015, Flynn attended a gala dinner in Moscow in honor of RT, a Russian government-owned English-language media outlet on which he made semi-regular appearances as an analyst after he retired from U.S. government service. Before the gala, Flynn gave a paid talk on world affairs. Flynn defended the Russian payment in an interview with Michael Isikoff. Journalist Michael Crowley of Politico reported that "at a moment of semi-hostility between the U.S. and Russia, the presence of such an important figure at Putin's table startled" U.S. officials.
2016 U.S. presidential election
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Having already been consulted regarding national security by candidates Carly Fiorina, Scott Walker, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump, Flynn was asked in February 2016 to serve as an adviser to the Trump campaign. In July 2016, it was reported he was being considered as Trump's running mate; Flynn later confirmed that he had submitted vetting documents to the campaign and was willing to accept the Republican vice-presidential nomination if chosen.
As one of the keynote speakers during the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention Flynn gave what the Los Angeles Times described as a "fiery" speech, in which he stated: "We are tired of Obama's empty speeches and his misguided rhetoric. This, this has caused the world to have no respect for America's word, nor does it fear our might"; he also accused Obama of choosing to conceal the actions of Osama bin Laden and ISIS. Flynn went on to critically address political correctness and joined the crowd in a chant of "U-S-A! U-S-A!". During the chants he told those in the audience, "Get fired up! This is about our country." During the speech, Flynn also joined chants of "Lock her up!", referring to the Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, and stated that she should quit the presidential race. He repeated in subsequent interviews that she should be "locked up". While campaigning for Trump, Flynn also referred to Clinton as the "enemy camp".
Flynn was once opposed to waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques that have now been banned; however, according to an August 2016 Washington Post article, he said at one point, in the context of Trump's apparent openness to reinstating such techniques, that "he would be reluctant to take options off the table." In May 2016, Flynn was asked by an Al Jazeera reporter if he would support Trump's stated plan to kill the families of suspected terrorists. In response, Flynn stated, "I would have to see the circumstances of that situation". In an interview with Al Jazeera, Flynn criticized the reliance on drones as a "failed strategy", stating that "what we have is this continued investment in conflict. The more weapons we give, the more bombs we drop, that just … fuels the conflict.”
On November 18, 2016, Flynn accepted president-elect Donald Trump's offer of the position of National Security Advisor.
Political views
Flynn is a registered Democrat, having grown up in a "very strong Democratic family". However, he was a keynote speaker during the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, and he is a surrogate and top national security adviser for president-elect Donald Trump.
During a July 10, 2016 interview on ABC News' This Week, when asked by host Martha Raddatz about the issue of abortion, Flynn stated, "women have to be able to choose." The next day, Flynn said on Fox News that he is a "pro-life Democrat".
Flynn has been a board member of ACT! for America and sees the Muslim faith as one of the root causes of Islamist terrorism. He has described Islam as a political ideology and a cancer, and stated in Twitter that the "fear of Muslims is RATIONAL ." Initially supportive of Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from entering the US, Flynn later told Al Jazeera that a blanket ban was unworkable and has called instead for "vetting" of entrants from countries like Syria.
In a review of Flynn's book The Field of Fight, Will McCants of the Brookings Institution described Flynn's worldview as a confused combination of neoconservatism (an insistence on destroying what he sees as an alliance of tyranny, dictatorships, and radical Islamist regimes) and realism (support for working with "friendly tyrants").
Awards
Flynn's non-military awards and decorations include the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal and National Security Agency Distinguished Service Medal. His military awards include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), Legion of Merit (with oak leaf cluster), Bronze Star Medal (with three oak leaf clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (with five oak leaf clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (with five oak leaf clusters), and several service and campaign medals. Flynn also earned the Ranger Tab, Master Parachutist Badge, and Joint Staff Identification Badge.
Flynn is also the recipient of the Congressionally approved Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the 2012 Association of Special Operations Professionals Man of the Year award.
Flynn has an honorary doctorate from The Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC.
Books
- The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, with Michael Ledeen, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2016.
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External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interviews on Al Jazeera: 19 May 2016; 13 Jan 2016
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| Preceded bySusan Rice | National Security Advisor Designate Taking office 2017 |
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