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    Ousted over Russian contacts, ex-national security adviser faces new scrutiny for ties to Turkey

    by Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Nov 22, 2017 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - In the lucrative world of Washington consulting, businesses often burnish their reputations by adding bold-faced names to their boards.

    So after Michael Flynn was fired as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 for what the Obama administration said was mismanagement, he asked former CIA Director R. James Woolsey Jr. to serve as an adviser for his new company, the Flynn Intel Group.

    The position involved little work, according to a source with knowledge of the relationship, until a fateful encounter at the JW Marriott Essex House, a luxury hotel in midtown Manhattan, on Sept. 19, 2016, about seven weeks before the presidential election.

    The meeting - which involved Flynn, Woolsey and Turkey's minister of foreign affairs, Mevlut Cavusoglu - is among

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