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In the same 2016 interview, Flynn continues:
Michael Flynn: [TALKING OVER] Yeah, I, I mean, I hate to say it's not my job but that - my job was to ensure that the accuracy of our intelligence that was being presented was as good as it could be, and I will tell you, it goes before 2012. I mean, when we were, when we were in Iraq and we still had decisions to be made before there was a decision to pull out of Iraq in 2011. I mean, it was very clear what we were, what we were going to face.
Mehdi Hasan: Well, I admire your frankness on this subject.
Michael Flynn: [TALKING OVER] Very clear what we were gonna face.
Mehdi Hasan: Let me - let me just to, before we move on, just to clarify once more, you are basically saying that even in government at the time, you knew those groups were around. You saw this analysis -
Michael Flynn: [TALKING OVER] Sure.
Mehdi Hasan: - and you were arguing against it. But who wasn't listening?
Michael Flynn: I think the administration.
Mehdi Hasan: So the administration turned a blind eye to your analysis -
Michael Flynn: I don't know if they turned a blind eye. I think it was a decision. I think it was a wilful decision.
Mehdi Hasan: A wilful decision to go - support an insurgency that had Salafist, al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood?
The willful decision was outlined in this 2012 DIA document:
General Wesley Clark admitted that it was all pre-planned.
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