WASHINGTON, D.C 5/7/2020 2:45pm(est)
On Thursday, the Justice Department said they are dropping the case against former Trump National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, who had previously pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in the Special Counsel’s Russia investigation. Flynn admitted to the Special Counsel’s investigators that he had lied about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador in January 2017. Flynn became a cooperating witness in the Special Counsel’s investigation, and had been awaiting sentencing on the charges he’d pleaded guilty too.
The Associated Press (@AP) were first to break the big story. According to the AP, the move is a “stunning reversal” in one of the “signature cases” bought by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel. In court documents filed on Thursday, the Justice Department said it is dropping the case “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information. The documents were obtained by the Associated Press. The Justice Department went on to say that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn.” And that the interview was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Jeff Jensen, the U.S Attorney reviewing the Flynn case. recommended the move to Attorney General William Barr last week, and formalized the recommendation in a document this week.
U.S ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR
“Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed” Jensen said of his decision.
FLYNN/ KISLYAK
Flynn’s lawyers and conservative news outlets aggressively reported on FBI emails and notes that were released by the FBI last week. The lawyers said the emails and notes show that Flynn was entrapped when he was interviewed by FBI agents at the White House days after Trump’s inauguration. *None of the documents released last week undercut the allegation that Flynn lied to the FBI.* After interviewing Flynn, the FBI went to the White House to warn newly elected president Donald Trump, that Flynn was compromised and vulnerable to blackmail by Russia because of what was intercepted on Flynn’s phone call with Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. Flynn was asked if he’d discussed sanctions with the Russian Ambassador, to which he replied that he had not. The FBI was concerned that Flynn may have been working on behalf of Russia and against the best interest of the United States. After several weeks of denying that Flynn had discussed sanctions with Kislyak, the White House fired Flynn after they said they concluded that he had lied to them about the conversation. Flynn pleaded guilty to the charges in December of that year. He acknowledged that he lied about his conversation with Kislyak about not retaliating for sanctions that were imposed against Russia by the Obama administration for election interference. As a cooperating witness, the FBI said Flynn’s cooperation was so extensive that he was entitled to a sentence of probation instead of time in prison.
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