Flynn under a bogus investigation?

Bottom line: Flynn was never a Russian agent 

The president tweeted that he did not realize Michael Flynn, his first national security adviser, had been under investigation on suspicion of being a Russian agent and that he should have been warned.

This is a puzzling complaint. First, a report issued by a Republican-led House committee — often touted by Trump — disclosed in 2018 that there had been an ongoing counterintelligence investigation of Flynn. So that’s not new information. Second, Trump was warned by President Barack Obama not to hire Flynn — and the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III says that warning actually soured Trump on Flynn.

Here’s what we know about the warnings Trump received about Flynn. In a narrow, technical sense, Trump was not warned that Flynn was being investigated as a possible Russian agent. But there were plenty of other flashing lights that Flynn was trouble — warnings that Trump chose to ignore.

This is one of those arguments that just sort of misses the entire point of things. So did Obama know that Flynn was being investigated when he told Trump not to hire him? If Obama did know, then why would he have not said anything? Certainly if the outgoing President is privy to information such as this, the incoming President should be provided with the same information.

Either way, Trump should have been told. The fact he wasn't stinks of corrupt intent.

But more to the point, the Mueller Report clearly shows that General Flynn was never actually an agent of Russia. The question we should be asking isn't why Flynn was hired, but under what pretense was Flynn being investigated? The fact is that whatever reasons they had to suspect him, turned out to be completely invalid.

People tend to forget that Flynn worked for Obama and was let go because Flynn and Obama never saw eye to eye on policy. After the fact, General Flynn became a big critic of Obama, his administration, and his foreign policy. It seems awfully coincidental that a former employee, big critic, and advocate for a political opponent... suddenly finds himself on double secret probation with the deep state law enforcement investigating him as a possible foreign agent.

If I didn't know any better, it looks alot like either paranoia, or payback. Either way, there was apparently no reason to ever have been investigating Flynn, so what we can determine for certain is that it wasn't justified.