Mine, Raimondo's, some Senators
like this, among others. Flynn wanted to concentrate on fighting ISIS more efficientlly, Obama wanted to push a political narrative that he had beaten ISIS post the so-called "Osama raid" of 2011, while expanding the war to oust Assad in Syria. Flynn noted this discrepancy.
Why would Flynn's idea of better integrating the intelligence from different agencies in the region be considered "disruptive," unless the real focus of some of them was
not stopping ISIS,
but on topplng Assad, and so linking the data would let the cat out of the bag? He was thus being kept out of the decision making loop about expanding the intervention, and pushed out when he noticed.
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