I made a brief search of 4 star admirals the last ten years or so.

This guy has been out of the navy for almost 2 decades.
He is a MIC whore now.

I still need to see where the MIC whore has said this.
I am not seeing anything from The Washington Examiner related to this
It’s even worse than we previously thought. A retired four-star admiral is now claiming that Barack Obama intentionally conspired with America’s enemies to stage a bogus attack and the kidnapping of an American ambassador so he could “negotiate” the release of a “hostage” and bolster his mediocre approval ratings just prior to the election!
The Washington Examiner, quoting retired Four-Star Admiral James Lyons, writes