PETE SANTILLI INTERVIEWS GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN Lt. General (Ret.) Michael T. Flynn spent thirty-three years as an intelligence officer and was named National Security Adviser by President-elect Donald Trump. Flynn has served as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Senior Military Intelligence Officer in the Department of Defense. He also founded the Flynn Intel Group, a commercial, government, and international consulting firm. He lives in Virginia. Flynn was commissioned in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant in military intelligence in 1981– In September 2011, Flynn was promoted to Lieutenant General and assigned as assistant director of national intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.