It began with a meeting in New York between the future national security adviser Michael Flynn and Turkish government officials in September 2016, where they discussed kidnapping an exiled cleric and turning him over to Ankara. A curious op-ed followed, in which Flynn alleged that the cleric, Fethullah Gulen, helmed a “dangerous sleeper terror network” and needed to be extradited. U.S. prosecutors soon took notice, and Flynn and two of his business associates were ultimately revealed to have been on a foreign government’s payroll in 2016, lobbying against the interests of the United States—and tried to cover it up when …read more
Source: The Atlantic
