Former Obama intel official: Hillary Clinton should drop out

[amborin]

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama's former top military intelligence official said Hillary Clinton should pull out of the presidential race while the FBI investigate her use of a private email server for official government communication while secretary of state.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the retired chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, made the call in an interview with Jake Tapper on "The Lead."
"If it were me, I would have been out the door and probably in jail," said Flynn, who decried what he said was a "lack of accountability, frankly, in a person who should have been much more responsible in her actions as the secretary of state of the United States of America."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/12/politics/hillary-clinton-michael-flynn-email-fbi-investigation/index.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. What would be really hilarious to me is the fact

that she only took the job of SOS to pad her resume in her desire to rule America and now her sheer incompetence at that job my cost the poor dear her lifelong dream.

[okieinpain]

4. that is funny. n/t.

[J_J_]

19. If she was planning to run, how could she be so stupid?

She was so arrogant she didn't think she would be caught?

Now we are all going to be subjected to Trump because she won't quit in the face of all her illegal dealings.

[berni_mccoy]

20. Hubris.

[NewImproved Deal]

2. Time for her to go. This race is too important for one woman's grandiose Ego...

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[840high]

33. Ha.ha

[MattP]

3. Trump military advisor Flynn also wants Muslim ban

[tonyt53]

5. Next time try getting somebody that isn't openly supporting Trump

The guy was forced out of the DIA over his overly aggressive management style. And yes, he is openly supporting Trump.

[yourpaljoey]

6. I think she may be just figuring out she has trapped herself and there is no way out.

She's done.
She knew Justice would cover for her.
It's the FBI angle that brought her down.

[emulatorloo]

12. I think y'all should be less gullible about taking the word of a Trump campaign surrogate.

Flynn's a partisan hack who works for Trump.

[yourpaljoey]

17. You might want to catch up on this story

[emulatorloo]

21. I'm 'up on the story'. I also know a partisan hack Trump surrogate when I see one

You might want to catch up on the fact that the FBI isn't leaking. They are the only ones who know the investigation and where it is leading.

All this stuff from GOP hacks is nothing but speculation. We've seen this movie before. Take it with a grain of salt is all I am saying.

[NastyRiffraff]

31. Thank you for your sanity

Trump advisers have no place as legitimate sources on DU, no matter who you support.

[apcalc]

7. TRUMP military advisor Flynn...

[TwilightZone]

8. Trump advisor Michael Flynn. So, now Trump's own campaign is a legit source?

Yeah, I think we'll ignore him, thanks.

[Tarc]

9. Would this be the same Michael Flynn that now sits on Trump's advisory board?

Y'all have been peddling this guy for a solid month now.

[BootinUp]

10. DISCLAIMER: HI MY NAME IS DONALD TRUMP!

[emulatorloo]

11. Google Trump Advisor General Michael Flynn.

You'll learn he is a partisan hack.

[SidDithers]

13. The right hates Hillary. The fringe left hates Hillary...

but they both think Trump advisors are just peachy.

Sid

[KULawHawk]

46. Left, right, up, down

...and the blind mice are "with her".

[WhiteTara]

14. Seems like you will use any source

to bolster your claims against Clinton. I've seen so many right wing sources from you and now you're using quotes from Trump's agent. I find it really quite distressing. This is the Democratic Underground and at one time we did not use these kinds of sources.

[pdsimdars]

24. WTF? So you think Lt Gen. Michael Flynn, who Obama appointed to head the DIA

is now a right wing source?

That should signal you that your denial has gone way too deep and you need to come back to reality.

Many, many top people in Intelligence have come out with similar comments. Some worked for Obama and some not, but they all understand what is going on, and you OBVIOUSLY don't, and apparently don't care to inform yourself.

[hack89]

25. Aren't all of Trump's advisers RW nuts?

or are you saying that some of them are rational and reasonable?

[WhiteTara]

35. He works for trump

[TwilightZone]

37. He's Trump's military advisor

Don't be so daft.

[ancianita]

15. He just underscores the post-legal world that "insiders" live and govern in, doesn't he.

[KingFlorez]

16. How many times have you posted this?

[Hiraeth]

18. Politics has always made for strange bedfellows. So funny, that what helps Trump also helps Bernie.

and it just is really pissing off HRC supporters. Funny stuff! Thanks for this

[Demsrule86]

23. Flynn is a Trump surrogate

I guess you now support the Iraq war and torture ...because your 'expert' Flynn does. Oh he hates Obama too.

[Demsrule86]

22. This is a Bush guy...it has been posted before

He was one of the architects of the Iraq war and supports torture...he stayed on...as Obama was 'reaching' across the aisle but he is a hater.This has been posted before. Oh and he is advising Trump...if you actually listen to the Tapper video link you provided, he admits it. So now you post is about a Trump surrogate attacking Hillar.y You pretend he is a Democrat...he is no Democrat. He wrote a nasty book about Biden and hates Obama.

But in interviews with current and former U.S. defense and intelligence officials, one name continues to surface as a trusted Trump adviser and go-to man on intelligence and national security: Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a well-known and outspoken critic of the Obama administration’s campaign against ISIS and its foreign policy.
In Trump, Flynn may have found a kindred spirit—a brash, candid provocateur who seems more interested in upending whole systems than in fine-tuning them. He is also the most prominent name to emerge of those who could help shape the nascent Trump doctrine. And that has made some current and former officials who know Flynn nervous.
They question why the retired general, who has earned criticism for his leadership style but has generally been regarded as a well-intentioned professional, would assist a candidate who has called for military actions that would constitute war crimes.
“I think Flynn and Trump are two peas in a pod,” one former senior U.S. intelligence official who knows Flynn told The Daily Beast. “They have this naïve notion that yelling at people will just solve problems.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/09/donald-trump-embraces-top-obama-intel-official.html

[MineralMan]

26. I think you should do more research on these things.

Flynn is a Trump campaign board member. What would you expect him to say?

We know who he is. This nonsense has been posted before and Flynn's Trump connection explained.

The key word is "Former." He is no longer a military intelligence official. He no longer knows what is going on. He is out of that loop, entirely, and has only past information.

He is a Trump adviser. He is a Trump supporter. What would you expect him to say?

This is a very weak argument you have posted. You should probably self-delete it, I think, to avoid further embarrassment.

[jamese777]

29. Flynn & Trump

"Trump Being Advised by ex-U.S. Lieutenant General who favors closer Russia ties"
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-advisor-idUSMTZSAPEC2Q6G3JRH

[MineralMan]

30. Flynn is a loose cannon, and is no longer a

military intelligence official because of that. He's a weird guy. He's nobody that anyone should be listening to.

But, he happens to agree on some point with Clinton opponents. That is apparently enough for some people. It's a sad state of affairs when people are quoting a Trump surrogate here on DU to attack Hillary Clinton. Sad, indeed.

[Faux pas]

27. Naw she'd

rather wait for her indictment.

[jamese777]

28. Why would any candidate drop out when...

the numbers are:
Primaries' total popular vote as of May 23rd
Hillary Clinton: 13,192,713 (55.5%)
Bernie Sanders: 10,158,889 (42.7%)
Donald Trump: 11,266,041

Clinton over Sanders: 3,033,824
Clinton over Trump: 1,926,672
Trump over Sanders: 1,057,152

Hillary Clinton: 1,775 pledged delegates
Bernie Sanders: 1,499 pledged delegates

Hillary Clinton: 522 superdelegates
Bernie Sanders: 42 superdelegates

Hillary Clinton: 2,297 total delegates
Bernie Sanders: 1,541 total delegates

Hillary Clinton: 26 contests won
Bernie Sanders: 21 contests won

Hillary Clinton needs 89 delegates
Bernie Sanders needs 842 delegates

[NastyRiffraff]

32. You forgot to mention

that Flynn is a current Trump adviser, as well as being a former Obama military intelligence official. So it's okay to post Trump's campaign as a source now? And please don't say you didn't know, a two-second Google search could have told you about this jerk.

[JTFrog]

34. 12 hidden posts and you still aren't done embracing right wingers are you?

Trump advisor and supporter as your source? Any freaking port in the storm, eh?

What an embarrassment to this site.

No wonder you guys are losing so bad.

[kstewart33]

36. Flynn? Really? Desperation runs amok.

[TwilightZone]

38. The article is 3+ months old. You hit the irrelevancy double-whammy.

Congrats.

[Duval]

40. Welcome to DU!!

Don't lose hope. We have months to go and we need Bernie in the strongest position possible at the Convention.

[eridani]

41. This is a nothingburger. Members of The Club don't suffere consequences for anything n/t

[Octafish]

43. Larry Summers just called. He wants your address for his Holiday Card list.

"What would Goldman think?"

[eridani]

44. That crowd never has to suffer consequences for anything, period. n/t

[Enthusiast]

42. I'm sure it's nothing.

[Tarc]

45. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is a Donald Trump adviser

Careful about lying down in the pigpen...

[tandem5]

47. So Trump wants her out. I hate Trump. I support Clinton. So everything is good.