Flynt has served as senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East expert on the secretary of state's policy planning staff and senior analyst at the CIA.
“Always intelligent and provocative, as well as disciplined and civil. A stimulating way to spend an evening.”
- The Wall Street Journal
Debate: Spreading Democracy in the Middle East is a Bad Idea
Senior Fellow and Director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation
Flynt has served as senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East expert on the secretary of state's policy planning staff and senior analyst at the CIA.