NOT IMPRESSED: Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, shown here in 2014, warned a House of Representatives panel that the Obama administration – whose Defense Intelligence Agency he ran until 10 months ago – is clueless in its approach to Iran’s nuclear gameCSP, by Fred Fleitz, June 11, 215:
On June 10, 2015 the House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa held an important hearing on Iran’s ballistic missile program and why this program should be part of a nuclear agreement with Iran.
The witnesses at this hearing were:
Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn, U.S. Army (retired)
(Former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency)
Ambassador Robert Joseph
Senior Scholar, National Institute for Public Policy
Former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
Dr. David A. Cooper
James V. Forrestal Professor and Chair of the Department of National Security Affairs, U.S. Naval War College
Dr. Anthony H. Cordesman
Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Although all of the witnesses gave excellent presentations, the remarks of General Flynn and Ambassador Joseph were especially noteworthy. Both believe the nuclear agreement being negotiated with Iran will not stop or slow its pursuit of nuclear weapons. They are very concerned at the exclusion of Iran’s missile program which they believe is being developed as a nuclear weapon delivery system. Flynn discusses his concern about a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program. Joseph explains why the nuclear deal is likely to undermine global nuclear and missile nonproliferation efforts.
Excepts from Joseph’s and Flynn’s testimonies are in the below video.
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To watch the entire hearing from the House Foreign Affairs Committee website, clickHERE.
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