National Security Adviser Michael Flynn reportedly withdrew Monday from giving a speech at a defense-focused event originally scheduled for the same night.
Flynn was listed as an “invited” speaker on Monday night at the National Defense Industrial Association’s annual special operations/low intensity conflict symposium, per the NDIA’s final agenda.
“Flynn had never confirmed his attendance. He was always listed as invited,” NDIA public relations and communications director Ashley Saunders wrote in an email to TPM.
The White House withdrew Flynn due to scheduling conflicts, according to Defense One tech editor Patrick Tucker, who first reported the cancellation.
BREAKING Flynn will not speak at Special Operations Forces banquet tonight, after being previously listed as keynote https://t.co/YJNcHGhDJT
— Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat) February 13, 2017
@jarvik7 he was the invited keynote but WH informed NDIA of pullout over wknd, said “would not work w his schedule” according to NDIA
— Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat) February 13, 2017
@danmericaCNN NDIA says “He was always tentative … we learned over the weekend that it would not work with his schedule.”
— Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat) February 13, 2017
@danmericaCNN So he was a firm maybe as late as Friday and fully backed out over the weekend.
— Patrick Tucker (@DefTechPat) February 13, 2017
About time. So many questions. Why were some of his conversations with the Russians encrypted? What was he hiding? Why didn’t Putin retaliate in kind for the December sanctions less than 24 hours after they said they would and after Flynn talked to the Russians? Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes story about the not barking dog- question is not whether the dog barked but why the dog did not bark?
Edit: link added
Perhaps his schedule includes being extracted, only to reappear miraculously in Moscow a few days later, being given a medal by Putin.
The executioner is sharpening his axe as we speak.
Bannon should should speak in his place. The slob can explain the superiority of his white supremacist vision for the planet.
Actually true.
He’s scheduled to speak elsewhere that day.
To members of the Intelligence Community.
After a long flight with a bag over his head.