I was not aware that the White House made the claim that the Obama admin approved the Flynn phone call.

Today, somewhere, I believe I saw something to the effect that Susan Rice claimed "Obama was really concered about Flynn as some sort of national security risk", or something along those lines. Sounded like some sort of self-serving comment, much like her email to herself as she left office.

Now I understand what the White Hat comment was about. Supposedly Flynn was falling on his sword for Trump. Initially I thought they were saying he had something to do with trying to help Obama, and harm Trump, which made no sense to me.

I do agree that it would be foolish for the White House to claim the Obama admin knew about and approved the phone caill if that was really not the case and there was no way to prove the claim.