Flynn advised candidate [[Donald Trump]] throughout the [[2016 U.S. Presidential election]] on [[foreign policy]] matters. Flynn resigned from the position of [[National Security Advisor]] early in the [[Trump administration]] in a [[fake news]] scandal put out by the ''[[Washington Post]]'' using classified information gathered and [[leak]]ed illegally by the Obama administration.<ref>[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/02/14/krauthammer_we_can_not_have_intel_agencies_eavesdrop_on_americans_and_release_it_to_press.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445045/general-michael-flynn-national-security-adviser-fbi-investigation-phone-call-russian-ambassador]</ref><ref>https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3093</ref>
==Opposed Obams covert aid to the Islamic State==
On August 12, 2012 DIA chief Mike Flynn issued s report circulated widely throughout the intelligence community critical of Western aid to [[jihad]]i groups. Copies went to the [[CIA]], [[FBI]], [[State Department]], [[Homeland Security]], [[CENTCOM]], the National Geospacial Agency and other IC members. The report documented that Western powers, that is [[NATO]] powers, along with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council ([[Bahrain]], [[Kuwait]], [[Oman]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[United Arab Emirates]]) and [[Turkey]], wanted the creation of an [[Islamic State]] ("Salafist principality in Eastern Syria") to oppose the [[Syria]]n regime of [[Bashar al-Assad]] and [[Iranian]] influence in the region.
{{Quotebox|THE WEST, GULF COUNTRIES, AND TURKEY [WHICH] SUPPORT THE [SYRIAN] OPPOSITION… THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING A '''DECLARED OR UNDECLARED [[Salafi|SALAFIST]] PRINCIPALITY IN EASTERN SYRIA''' (HASAKA AND DER ZOR), AND THIS IS '''EXACTLY WHAT THE SUPPORTING POWERS TO THE OPPOSITION WANT''', IN ORDER TO ISOLATE THE SYRIAN REGIME…}}