On August 7, 2014, clusters of well-dressed men and women filed into the gleaming metal and glass superstructure of the Defense Intelligence Agency at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, just across the river from Ronald Reagan National Airport, for the retirement ceremony of Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, the agency’s director. Among those present to honor Flynn were James Clapper, the nation’s top intelligence officer—who was a master of ceremony for the event—and Michael Vickers, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence.It wasn’t an easy moment. Together, Clapper and Vickers had forced Flynn out as the head of DIA. The Defense Intelligence …read more
Source: POLITICO – U.S. Edition
