White House press secretary Sean Spicer confirmed that President Obama asked the Trump administration not to hire Gen. Michael Flynn as national security adviser, during his daily briefing on May 8 at the White House. The White House should not necessarily assume that political appointees know everything that is happening across the bureaucracy. “It was not so General Flynn could go to other agencies asking for classified information,” he said. The Pinocchio TestFlynn’s security clearance was a routine matter, done mainly to benefit the head of the DIA, and it did not rise to a political level. So Trump and other White House officials are engaging in a distraction when they suggest that Obama failed to take action against Flynn.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2017 06:56 UTC