New documents filed under seal last week by the Department of Justice provide the clearest evidence yet that the investigation and subsequent prosecution of former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was a set-up from the beginning. Handwritten notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that had been inappropriately withheld from Flynn’s defense team for years show that a key goal of the agents investigating Flynn was “to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”
In early 2017, FBI agents planned to question Flynn under false pretenses and without his attorneys present regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. At the time of those conversations, Flynn was the top foreign policy adviser of the president-elect of the United States. By the time of the ambush FBI interview, Flynn had already been appointed as the White House national security adviser.
In the handwritten FBI notes, the note-taker, whose identity was not made clear in the document production, wrote that an alternate goal is to “get [Flynn] to admit breaking the Logan Act,” a reference to a 1799 law restricting communications between private citizens and foreign governments. The law is widely viewed as unconstitutional and has never been used to successfully prosecute a single American citizen. The previously secret notes do not explain that Flynn was not a private citizen, but rather the incoming national security adviser at the time of his conversations with world leaders.
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Accusations that Flynn was a traitor to his country who violated the 1799 law gained steam following the criminal leak of top-secret information to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. Ignatius’ sources suggested the routine conversation between a top incoming White House adviser and his foreign counterparts might be a Logan Act violation. As absurd as the suggestion was, Ignatius dutifully parroted it.
News reports indicate U.S. Attorney John Durham is currently investigating the sources of those criminal leaks of top secret national security information to Ignatius. Although the agents who interviewed Flynn initially stated they believed Flynn told them the truth during the Jan. 24 interview, Special Counsel Robert Mueller nonetheless charged Flynn in late 2017 with making false statements to FBI investigators in the interview.
Flynn pleaded guilty to the charge at the time but is currently trying to withdraw that plea, citing ineffective counsel and government corruption in the conduct of his case.
The explosive new documents support Flynn’s latest claims that Obama-era Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI officials had conspired to set him up from the beginning and that they never had any legitimate basis for investigating him.
The author of the handwritten notes filed under seal last week also wrote, “We have a case on Flynn and Russians,” and “our goal is to resolve case.” Despite those claims of treasonous Russian collusion, Mueller found, after a sprawling, multi-year, multimillion-dollar investigation, that there was zero evidence of illegal collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to steal the 2016 election from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In reality, the only Russian collusion that happened during the 2016 campaign was between the Clinton campaign and a subcontractor it funded, who was at the time working on behalf of a sanctioned Russian oligarch. That agent, former British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, created for the Clinton campaign the entire basis for charges of illegal collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. That document, known as the Steele dossier, has been thoroughly debunked since it was first released in early January 2017. The Clinton campaign, in cooperation with the Democratic National Committee, secretly funded the creation of that document and its distribution throughout the media. To date, none of its key collusion claims has been corroborated.
Steele’s operation became a primary basis for the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation of the Trump campaign. The false allegations contained in the dossier were also used by FBI and DOJ officials to justify four separate spy warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign affiliate. The FBI also investigated Flynn as part of this operation.
The FBI notes also show that the author of the document had misgivings about the FBI’s conduct in interviewing Flynn.
“I agreed yesterday that we shouldn’t show Flynn [REDACTED] if he didn’t admit,” the FBI author wrote. “I thought [about] it last night, [and] I believe we should rethink this.”
“We regularly show subjects evidence, with the goal of getting them to admit wrongdoing,” the notes said. “I don’t see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him.”
Destroying an innocent patriot simply to create an embarrassing ding on the Trump administration. Democrats are no better than Nazis or Stalinists.
@Deplorable Me:
That is why I call them demokrats. There are no Democrats left. The demokrats and MSM are complicit in the cover up of this gross abuse of power and are therefore part of the police state. I hope by the time Gen Flynn is done suing these corrupt, Gestapo/NKVD wannabes, from the FBI to DOJ to Mueller to the MSM to Schitthead, they are wandering our streets homeless.
@another vet: It looks like James Baker is flipping. It will only take one to start spilling their guts and the whole rotten organization will collapse. Since Democrats approve of the process, get whoever they can, threaten them and their families with prosecution and bankruptcy to get them to fill in the blanks. Maybe like Dan Rather, we KNOW what the facts are; use any means to achieve the goal of revealing them. Seems to be the rules now.
@Deplorable Me:
That’s what Schitt’s Coronavirus hearings are all about- covering this up just like the Mueller fiasco and their bogus impeachment show trial. They know the big news this summer will be the recovery (a real one unlike “Recovery Summer”) and the implosion of Spygate, which has already started, and they need to divert attention away from both. Just like the Mueller and impeachment fiascos, their new show trial will blow up in their faces too. Given the lies the Schitt told trying to cover all this up, he needs to be criminally referred for criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
Just think what the debates will be like. PT will be able to directly confront Biden on all of this and Biden will have to explain it in front of millions of Americans especially since his former boss has been too chickenshit to address the issue other than his initial lie when he claimed he didn’t spy on the Trump campaign. As much as the DNC moderators will try to bury the subject, Trump won’t let that happen.
The Democrats are ruthless vile and nasty
From General Flynn
I hope he takes a position in Trumps second cabinet, and sues the crap out of the prosecutors.
They should all be disbarred.
The civil suits should be fun. Maybe there should be a new news channel to cover them. I wonder where the left will find an untainted candidate to run for office.
@Randy: Individuals should be sued; I don’t particularly care to pay for Obama’s coup.
@another vet: Democrats won’t allow Biden to debate. I’m sure he’ll continue to hide in his basement.
@Deplorable Me: None of these criminals were working within their job descriptions. As a result under the Gonzales Act, none are allowed to have US attorneys to defend them when sued individually. Flynn’s old law firm might as well transfer all of there assets over to Flynn. They can not win and if they settle, who would ever hire them again?