{"id":45478,"date":"2014-05-01T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45478"},"modified":"2014-04-30T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T22:03:34","slug":"dia-chief-forced-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45478","title":{"rendered":"DIA chief forced out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=45481\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/michael_t_flynn-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"michael_t_flynn\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/michael_t_flynn-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/michael_t_flynn-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/michael_t_flynn.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>LTG Michael T. Flynn was fired from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency yesterday, well, he was allowed to resign. But folks who used to work for him tell me that &#8220;he was a goddamn nightmare!&#8221;. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He tore down everything that was good about the organization, sent away those who disagreed with him, tried to dismantle DIA, without understanding the function of defense intelligence, and how different it is from CIA and its mission, and was generally knowledge deficient.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/head-of-pentagon-intelligence-agency-forced-out-officials-say\/2014\/04\/30\/ec15a366-d09d-11e3-9e25-188ebe1fa93b_story.html?hpid=z3\">The Washington Post<\/a> says;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The move comes at a time when the DIA is in the midst of a series of major changes, including an effort by senior Pentagon officials to expand the agency\u2019s network of spies overseas and work more closely with the CIA. Flynn, who served as a top intelligence adviser to Gen. Stanley McChrystal in Iraq and Afghanistan, arrived in July 2012 with an ambitious agenda to accelerate the agency\u2019s transformation. But critics said his management style also sowed chaos, setting aggressive plans for changes without adequate follow-through.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/michael-t-flynn-fired-from-dia-2014-4\">The Business Insider<\/a> writes; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flynn&#8217;s critics also maintained that his management style was chaotic and that his aggressive push for changes often did not include an adequate follow-through.<\/p>\n<p>During his tenure, Flynn routinely pushed for greater intelligence sharing. He has also been a leading figure in coalition and special operations intelligence activities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either way, his replacement is expected to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/64363\/MG_Mary_A__Legere\/\">LTG Mary A. Legere<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=45480\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mary-A.-Legere-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary A. Legere\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mary-A.-Legere-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mary-A.-Legere-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Mary-A.-Legere.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTG Michael T. Flynn was fired from his post at the Defense Intelligence Agency yesterday, well, &hellip; <a title=\"DIA chief forced out\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45478\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DIA chief forced out<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}