The last temptation of Michael Flynn

RETIRED LIEUT. GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN’S enormous fall from grace is an object lesson in the allure of money, fame and power. His story is perhaps not quite a Greek tragedy, but rather a kind of 21st century parable with morals for us all.

Throughout my time in uniform with Mike, he was a determined, hard-edged and highly effective intelligence officer—the best ever to serve on my team personally, which he did in Afghanistan while I was the Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and the strategic commander for that mission. Both retired General Stanley McChrystal—then