Army found Flynn wrongly shared intel, files show

— Michael Flynn, the retired Army general chosen by President-elect Donald Trump to be his national security adviser, was investigated for inappropriately sharing classified information with foreign military officers while he was serving as an intelligence commander in Afghanistan.

Army documents that were made public Wednesday by The Washington Post and obtained by the AP concluded that while some intelligence was wrongly shared by Flynn, it was “not done knowingly.”

No action was taken against Flynn, who was a major general serving as the deputy chief of staff for intelligence in the Afghanistan war when the investigation was done in 2009-2010.

The investigation, which had been classified, found no evidence of misconduct or damage to national security. Instead, the command WASHINGTON er of U.S. Central Command at the time concluded that there were efforts to “properly cleanse” the information provided to foreign officers, suggesting there was “keen attention to mission accomplishment in a coalition, combat environment.”

The documents do not detail what information Flynn shared, or with whom.

But they underscore the complexities involved when dealing with classified intelligence. And they come in the wake of a heated election campaign during which Flynn and Trump blasted Democrat Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, saying she created a national security risk.

The FBI concluded that Clinton passed on three email chains with information that had classified markings in the body of the emails; the State Department contended two of those chains held unclassified material. Clinton has argued that she didn’t understand that material marked with a “C” that passed through her personal communications system meant it was confidential.

Flynn routinely lashed out at Clinton in public comments during the campaign, at one point saying she “should not have a security clearance,” because of her use of the private server.

“She doesn’t take any accountability for herself, and she put our country at risk,” he said.

RICHARD DREW/AP Michael Flynn said in the campaign that Hillary Clinton created a security risk.