Michèle Flournoy

Michèle Flournoy     (deep state actor)
Born	Michèle Angelique Flournoy 1960-12-14 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University/Kennedy School of Government, Oxford University/Balliol College
Children	3
Spouse	William Scott Gould
Founder of	Center for a New American Security
Member of	Aspen/Strategy Group, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Booz Allen Hamilton, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Center for a New American Security, PIAB, Project for the New American Century, Truman Center for National Policy, WestExec Advisors
Party	Democratic
US deep state actor  Under Secretary of Defense for Policy  In office February 9, 2009 - February 8, 2012 Preceded by Eric Edelman Succeeded by James N. Miller

Michele Flournoy was a possible choice for Secretary of Defense for both Hillary Clinton and president Joe Biden, but ultimately did not get the job under either. She is member of a large number of deep state groups.

Clinton Administration

As assistant secretary of defense for strategy under President Bill Clinton, Flournoy was the principal author of the May 1997 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which laid the ideological foundation for the endless wars that followed. Under “Defense Strategy,” the QDR effectively announced that the United States would no longer be bound by the UN Charter’s prohibition against the threat or use of military force. It declared that, “when the interests at stake are vital, …we should do whatever it takes to defend them, including, when necessary, the unilateral use of military power.” The QDR defined U.S. vital interests to include “preventing the emergence of a hostile regional coalition” anywhere on Earth and “ensuring uninhibited access to key markets, energy supplies and strategic resources.”

Think-tanks

After the Clinton administration, she joined the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU) as a research professor, founding and leading NDU's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) working group, which had been chartered by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to develop intellectual capital in preparation for the Defense Department’s upcoming QDR in 2001.

In June 2002, as President George W. Bush threatened to attack against Iraq, Flournoy stated that the United States would “need to strike preemptively before a crisis erupts to destroy an adversary’s weapons stockpile” before it “could erect defenses to protect those weapons, or simply disperse them.”

She then moved to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she was a Senior Advisor working on a range of defense policy and international security issues before co-founding the think-tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS), to which she was named President, in 2007 with Kurt M. Campbell.

Obama Administration

In 2009, she joined the Obama administration as under secretary of defense for policy, under Hillary Clinton, where "she helped engineer political and humanitarian disasters in Libya and Syria and a new escalation of the endless war in Afghanistan" before resigning in 2012.

After Obama Administration

From 2013-2016, she joined Boston Consulting, trading on her Pentagon connections to boost the firm’s military contracts from $1.6 million in 2013 to $32 million in 2016. By 2017, Flourney herself was now making $452,000 a year.

In 2017, Flournoy and President Barack Obama’s Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken founded their own corporate consulting business, WestExec Advisors, where Flournoy continued to cash in on her contacts by helping companies successfully navigate the complex bureaucracy of winning enormous Pentagon contracts.

In 2016, Flournoy was selected as Hillary Clinton’s choice for secretary of defense, and she co-authored a CNAS report titled “Expanding American Power” with a team of hawks that included former Dick Cheney aide Eric Edelman, PNAC co-founder Robert Kagan and Bush’s National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley. The report was seen as a view of how Clinton’s foreign policy would differ from Obama’s, and wanted higher military spending, arms shipments to Ukraine, renewed military threats against Iran, more aggressive military action in Syria and Iraq, and further increases to domestic oil and gas production — all of which Donald Trump adopted.

Deep State Networks

Flournoy is a Senior Fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She was formerly on the board of the Atlantic Council. She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the CIA's External Advisory Board. She is a former member of the guiding coalition of the Project on National Security Reform, the Defense Policy Board, and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Transformation. She is a Senior Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Rosa Brooks	Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy	April 2009	July 2011	While on leave from Georgetown

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Brussels Forum/2015	20 March 2015	22 March 2015	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution.
Brussels Forum/2018	8 March 2018	10 March 2018	Belgium Brussels	Annual 3 day spooky get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and German Marshall Fund. Discussed the "Fight for Economic Equality".
Halifax International Security Forum/2010	20 November 2010	22 November 2010	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."

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