General Flynn spills beans on decision to let ISIS evolve – DIA report revisited
By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor on September 19, 2015
Ex-DIA Chief General Flynn: "I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision [to allow ISIS to evolve]."
Flynn comes out of the closet… better late than never.
US ex-intelligence chief on ISIS rise: It was ‘a willful Washington decision’
… from Russia Today, Moscow
[ Editor’s note: Here
is a classic from August 2015. My hat goes off to those who have the
budgets and the staff to do the grunt work on getting these FOIA gems
revealed. As we have stated many times, our sources were giving us a
steady supply of concerns over the “chain of command” involvement or
non-involvement in our wide scale use of military terrorist formations
as a cheap destabilization, regime change tool.
Reports of firewalls being set up to
block the usual auditing required to monitor military spending, even on
covert activities, were the first seeds that we got. Even in top secret
operations the bean counters are riding herd on funds disappearing or,
as it seems in this case, being converted to uses that could not be
tracked.
Above
board things don’t require such an institutionalized smokescreen being
set up to hide accountability. It takes very high up people to change
normal auditing procedures like this, so if there were Congressional
hearings at some point, there was not a breadcrumb trail to whom the
puppet masters are. But the list of suspects is a short one.
So we salute retired General Flynn for
coming out of the closet on this. There are many more who know more
about how this house of horrors evolved, and when an ex-DIA director
speaks out, it provides cover for more to do so. We have to remember to
show support for them every way we can… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … August 10, 2015 –
General Flynn
An interview with retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), given to Al Jazeera’s Mehdi Hasan, confirms earlier suspicions that Washington was monitoring jihadist groups emerging as opposition in Syria.
General Flynn dismissed Al Jazeera’s supposition that the US administration “turned a blind eye” to the DIA’s analysis. Flynn believes the US government didn’t listen to his agency on purpose.
“I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision,” the former DIA chief said.The classified DIA report presented in August 2012, stated that.
“The Salafist, the Muslim Brotherhood, and AQI [Al- Qaeda in Iraq] are the major forces driving the insurgency in Syria,” being supported by “the West, Gulf countries and Turkey.”
The document recently declassified through the Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA), analyses the situation in Syria in the summer of 2012 and
predicts:
“If the situation unravels,
there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared
Salafist principality in eastern Syria… and this is exactly what the
supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian
regime.”
The report warns of “dire consequences” of this scenario,
because it would allow Al-Qaeda to regain its positions in Iraq and
unify the jihadist Sunni forces in Iraq, Syria and the rest of the
Sunnis in the Arab world against all other Muslim minorities they
consider dissenters.
“ISI (the Islamic State of
Iraq) could also declare an Islamic State through its union with other
terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria, which will create grave
danger in regards of unifying Iraq and the protection of its territory,” the DIA report correctly predicted at the time.
Those groups eventually emerged as Islamic State (IS formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Al-Nusra Front, an Islamic group loyal to Al-Qaeda.
Unlike the US State Department,
which rushed to label the declassified DIA memo as unimportant soon
after its declassification, the DIA’s former head expressed full trust
in the 2012 report, stressing he “paid very close attention” to this document, adding “the intelligence was very clear.”
Al Jazeera notes that Lieutenant General Michael Flynn became “the highest ranking intelligence official to go on record,”
saying the US and other states, notably Turkey and the Gulf Arab
states, were sponsoring Al-Qaeda-led rebels in Syria with political
support and weapons in an attempt to overthrow President Bashar Assad.When Al Jazeera’s Hasan asked Flynn why he didn’t attempt to stop the US coordinating arms transfers to Islamic extremists, the retired general said:
“I hate to say it’s not my job, but my job was to ensure the accuracy of our intelligence,”
said Flynn, who also served as director of intelligence for the Joint
Special Operations Command (JSOC) during the US hunt for Bin Laden.
With the Al-Qaeda’s notorious founder “killed in Pakistan in 2011”,
the former DIA head admitting the US sponsored Al-Qaeda-associated
groups a year later in Syria should come as a shock to American media
outlets, such as the Daily Beast, which criticized the DIA memo as unworthy.Author for the Levant Report, Brad Hoff says hours after he published a rebuttal to the Daily Beast article, he was contacted by a personal friend, a high level official with CIA Public Affairs, who urged Hoff to drop his comments regarding the IS issue, insisting the Daily Beast article had been “written insightfully.”
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