Newly pardoned, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn says his four-year legal odyssey in the Russia case exposed the widespread corruption of intelligence, law enforcement and judicial institutions where politics was allowed to overrule the law.
“I’ve seen corruption up close and personal,” the retired three-star general told Just the News in a wide-ranging interview Thursday with the John Solomon Reports podcast. “And I see it as it’s playing out in our current election. I mean, real corruption is really now publicly known. And we should still find it unacceptable.
“This corruption in our institutions — justice, intelligence community, senior law enforcement — it didn’t happen overnight. This had to happen over, you know, probably decades, certainly a decade of a shift in the culture of acceptable bad behavior.”
Asked whether he was frustrated that Attorney General William Barr and special prosecutor John Durham had not done more to bring accountability to the misconduct identified in his case, Flynn urged patience.
“I actually think that, you know, the attorney general we just need to give him some space, because there’s some elements inside that block and tackle the truth, even from the attorney general,” Flynn said. “But I would say there are moments in time and now is one of them.”