FORMER OBAMA OFFICIALS, LOYALISTS WAGED SECRET CAMPAIGN TO OUST FLYNN TO PRESERVE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL~MUSLIM LOVING BILDERBERG GLOBALIST PETRAEUS BEING CONSIDERED

 
FORMER OBAMA OFFICIALS, LOYALISTS WAGED SECRET CAMPAIGN TO OUST FLYNN 
TO PRESERVE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL
BY ROBERT SPENCER
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 The swamp, in so dire need of draining, has struck back and scored a victory. 
 

“Former Obama Officials, Loyalists Waged Secret Campaign to Oust Flynn,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 14, 2017:

The abrupt resignation Monday evening of White House
national security adviser Michael Flynn is the culmination of a secret,
months-long campaign by former Obama administration confidantes to
handicap President Donald Trump’s national security apparatus and
preserve the nuclear deal with Iran, according to multiple sources in
and out of the White House who described to the Washington Free Beacon a behind-the-scenes effort by these officials to plant a series of damaging stories about Flynn in the national media.
The effort, said to include former Obama administration
adviser Ben Rhodes—the architect of a separate White House effort to
create what he described as a pro-Iran echo chamber—included a small
task force of Obama loyalists who deluged media outlets with stories
aimed at eroding Flynn’s credibility, multiple sources revealed.

The operation primarily focused on discrediting Flynn, an opponent of
the Iran nuclear deal, in order to handicap the Trump administration’s
efforts to disclose secret details of the nuclear deal with Iran that
had been long hidden by the Obama administration.
Insiders familiar with the anti-Flynn campaign told the Free Beacon
that these Obama loyalists plotted in the months before Trump’s
inauguration to establish a set of roadblocks before Trump’s national
security team, which includes several prominent opponents of diplomacy
with Iran. The Free Beacon first reported on this effort in January.

Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon requested anonymity in
order to speak freely about the situation and avoid interfering with the
White House’s official narrative about Flynn, which centers on his
failure to adequately inform the president about a series of phone calls
with Russian officials.
Flynn took credit for his missteps regarding these phone calls in a
brief statement released late Monday evening. Trump administration
officials subsequently stated that Flynn’s efforts to mislead the
president and vice president about his contacts with Russia could not be
tolerated.
However, multiple sources closely involved in the situation pointed
to a larger, more secretive campaign aimed at discrediting Flynn and
undermining the Trump White House.
“It’s undeniable that the campaign to discredit Flynn was well
underway before Inauguration Day, with a very troublesome and
politicized series of leaks designed to undermine him,” said one veteran
national security adviser with close ties to the White House team.
“This pattern reminds me of the lead up to the Iran deal, and probably
features the same cast of characters.”
The Free Beacon first reported in January that, until its final days in office, the Obama administration hosted
several pro-Iran voices who were critical in helping to mislead the
American public about the terms of the nuclear agreement. This included a
former Iranian government official and the head of the National Iranian
American Council, or NIAC, which has been accused of serving as Iran’s
mouthpiece in Washington, D.C.
Since then, top members of the Obama administration’s national
security team have launched a communications infrastructure after they
left the White House, and have told reporters they are using that infrastructure to undermine Trump’s foreign policy.
“It’s actually Ben Rhodes, NIAC, and the Iranian mullahs who are
celebrating today,” said one veteran foreign policy insider who is close
to Flynn and the White House. “They know that the number one target is
Iran … [and] they all knew their little sacred agreement with Iran was
going to go off the books. So they got rid of Flynn before any of the
[secret] agreements even surfaced.”
Flynn had been preparing to publicize many of the details about the
nuclear deal that had been intentionally hidden by the Obama
administration as part of its effort to garner support for the deal,
these sources said.
Flynn is now “gone before anybody can see what happened” with these
secret agreements, said the second insider close to Flynn and the White
House….

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 Flynn out at NSA, Petraeus could be all in
EXCERPT:  Petraeus would be a disaster — a stalwart of the old establishment in an administration that said it would “drain the swamp.” 

“In May 2016, he published
what was essentially an anti Trump screed, saying that proposals to
restrict immigration from Muslim countries that are hotspots of jihad
terror shouldn’t even be made, so as to avoid offending Muslims.

He was in favor of using al Qaeda jihadis to defeat the Islamic State,
which would give us a region full of al-Qaeda jihadis with American
weapons and materiel who hate the United States and want to destroy it.
(This is essentially what we have now in Syria, where Obama armed
“moderates” who were really al-Qaeda jihadis.)

When he headed up the international coalition in Afghanistan, he said that
Florida pastor Terry Jones’ plan to burn the Qur’an was “hateful, it
was intolerant and it was extremely disrespectful and again, we condemn
it in the strongest manner possible.” He warned that the Qur’an-burning would endanger American troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere. He issued a statement saying
that he hoped “the Afghan people understand that the actions of a small
number of individuals, who have been extremely disrespectful to the
holy Quran, are not representative of any of the countries of the
international community who are in Afghanistan to help the Afghan
people.””