the white house will claim likely that they don t do vetting outside of what d.o.d. or whoever was holding his security clearance did, but these stories about flynn s relationship with russia in particular, but there is also turkey, were appearing by mid2016. so it s not like, you know, when he becomes national security advisor a couple months later that there should have been a surprise about some of his affiliations. so the person doing the review let alone the white house council s office would have known and been aware of the omissions. and just to pick up on what the colonel said, people outside the national security field should not believe that this is onerous oversight, you know, that oh, he just forgot. this is part of our blood. in terms of who we are in the national security clearance process and disclosing every trip we make even if we go to ireland with our family or we have a friend who works for a foreign government. this is part of, you know it s sort of no different