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I don't think Michael Flynn did a lot of purchasing of parkas and submarine hull castings.

Corruption spreads down, just look at the "mighty" Russian military.

If an org is corrupt (example: Trump admin), the competent, honest, people would stay away, and you just attract idiots, whose motivations might be different to doing the best job possible.

He definitely was not involved in the low level grifts but the fish rots from the head

He must have done quite a lot of rotting in the whole three weeks he was a national security advisor, especially considering that role has nothing much to do with purchasing components, uniforms, or anything else really.

Not sure if you’ve heard but he got in a little trouble for not registering as a foreign agent

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