In June 2019, Flynn dismissed his attorneys and retained Sidney Powell, who on the same day wrote to attorney general Bill Barr seeking his assistance in exonerating Flynn. In December 2017, Flynn formalized a deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to plead guilty to a felony count of "willfully and knowingly" making false statements to the FBI about the Kislyak communications, and agreed to cooperate with the Special Counsel's investigation. Flynn's tenure as the National Security Advisor is the shortest in the history of the position. On February 13, 2017, he resigned after information surfaced that he had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the nature and content of his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. On January 22, 2017, Flynn was sworn in as the National Security Advisor. In March 2017, Flynn retroactively registered as a foreign agent, acknowledging that in 2016 he had conducted paid lobbying work that may have benefited Turkey's government. In February 2016, Flynn became a national security advisor to Trump for his 2016 presidential campaign. In December 2015, Flynn was paid $45,000 to deliver a Moscow speech at the ten-year anniversary celebration of RT, a state-controlled Russian international television network, where he sat next to Russian president Vladimir Putin at his banquet table. Īfter leaving the military, in October 2014 he established Flynn Intel Group, which provided intelligence services for businesses and governments, including in Turkey. During his tenure he gave a lecture on leadership at the Moscow headquarters of the Russian military intelligence directorate GRU, the first American official to be admitted entry to the headquarters. He became the 18th director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in July 2012 until his forced retirement from the military in August 2014. counterterrorism strategy and dismantling insurgent networks in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and he was given numerous combat arms, conventional, and special operations senior intelligence assignments. Flynn's military career included a key role in shaping U.S. He resigned in light of reports that he had lied regarding conversations with Sergey Kislyak. National Security Advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration. Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 24, 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 24th U.S.
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