Michael Flynn Claimed Drug Cartels Help Radical Islamists Infiltrate U.S. Border

2754873 12/10/2015 Former director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency (2012-2014) Michael Flynn at the RT conference Shape-shifting Powers in Today’s World. Mikhail Voskresenskiy/Sputnik via AP
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Incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn said in August that “radical Islamist countries” had worked out a deal with drug cartels on the U.S.-Mexican border in order to provide “lanes of entry” past border security.

Flynn, in an interview with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle surfaced Thursday night by CNN’s KFILE team, said he had seen pictures of Arabic-language signs near the United States border that would help people under orders from “radical Islamist countries”—he mentioned Iran specifically—to cross over without detection.

“I know from my friends in the Border Patrol, in CBP, that there are countries–radical Islamist countries, state-sponsored–that are cutting deals with Mexican drug cartels for some of what they call the ‘lanes of entry’ into our country,” Flynn said. “And I have personally seen the photos of the signage along those paths that are in Arabic. They’re like way points along that path as you come in. Primarily, in this case the one that I saw was in Texas and it’s literally, it’s like signs, that say, in Arabic, ‘this way, move to this point.’ It’s unbelievable.”

CNN found no evidence to corroborate Flynn’s claims. An April 2015 article from Judicial Watch cited anonymous sources including a Mexican police officer and Army officer who it said made claims of a terrorist training camp eight miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, though no other reports corroborate this.

A Politifact analysis of similar claims made by Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ), and several other politicians including then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), as well as television personalities like Sean Hannity, found no evidence that terrorist groups had planned to infiltrate the United States through its southern border. The analysis references John Wagner, then acting assistant commissioner for Custom and Border Patrol’s Office of Field Operations, who said it was far more likely for people suspected of terrorist activity to have come to the United States via plane.

Earlier in the interview, Flynn claimed that President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s motivation for accepting more refugees from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan was “for one purpose. This is to continue to change the face, and change the nature of our country. This is not about us embracing immigration. This is about changing the very face of our country.”

“This rise of Muslims and radicalized Muslims coming into our country illegally is something that we should pay very, very close attention to,” he added later on, emphasizing that “frankly our law enforcement professionals, they know this. Their problem is they’ve got to whisper it in back rooms instead of being able to call it for what it is.”

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  1. Flynn, in an interview with Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle surfaced Thursday night by CNN’s KFILE team, said he had seen pictures of Arabic-language signs near the United States border that would help people under orders from “radical Islamist countries”—he mentioned Iran specifically—to cross over without detection.

    Yeah. Farsi-speaking Shia Iranians are going to put up Arab language signs to direct their Sunni Muslim friends how to infiltrate the US, because nobody would ever be suspicious of an Arab language sign on the US border, and you know, whip out Google Translate or something and foil the whole nefarious plot.

    And I’m disappointed in him for forgetting the part about them carrying Ebola. He’ll have to be more on the ball as the National Security Advisor.

  2. Here’s the question I want a Dem Senator to ask at Generals Flynn’s and Morris’ confirmation hearings?

    “Have you ever adhered, or do you now adhere, to the concept that the United States can launch a first strike, limited nuclear engagement against another nation with nuclear arms and survive with acceptable losses?” Yes or no and if yes, please explain; take your time.

  3. If so, then that is another tragic by-product of the Reagan’s and Oliver North’s crackpot plan to fund the Contras.

  4. Let’s not whisper - let’s shout - HOW DID THIS IDIOT GET TRUMP’S EAR? When will the media start calling the lies of the trumpers “LIES”?

  5. So we’re putting a guy in charge of national security who can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality. Gosh, that just makes so much sense…

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