No sauce, but this is starting to line up with some things for me. I read here a while back that 'they' know who Q is, and that Pelosi had 'written letters' asking that Q stop posting. IF Flynn is connected to Q, then it would make sense that they got out in front of it with the 'Qanon' smears to discredit, and why they tried so hard to keep Flynn silent.
Again, NO SAUCE; purely conjecture here. Either way, they have failed miserably on both fronts. 'Qanon' still is not Q, and Flynn can no longer be silenced.