Flynn the victim of plot by those at the top of FBI

Fox News:
Explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."

The handwritten notes -- written by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Fox News is told -- further suggested that agents planned in the alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the Logan Act."

The Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799 in an era before telephones, it was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States government abroad.

"What is our goal?" one of the notes read. "Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"

"If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ + have them decide," another note read. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley called the document's implications "chilling."

The memo appears to weigh the pros and cons of pursuing those different paths. "I don't see how getting someone to admit their wrongdoing is going easy on him," one note reads. Flynn did not ultimately admit to wrongdoing in the interview.

The document indicates that the White House was monitoring the situation: "If we’re seen as playing games, WH will be furious."

The bombshell materials strongly suggested the agents weren't truly concerned about Flynn's intercepted contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period, except as a pretext. Former President Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was "not a fan," according to multiple officials. Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.

The Justice Department turned over the documents just this week, even though a February 2018 standing order in the case required the government to turn over any exculpatory materials in its possession that pertained to Flynn. Fox News is told even more exculpatory documents are forthcoming, as Attorney General Bill Barr continues to oversee the DOJ's investigation into the handling of the Flynn case.

Flynn previously charged that top FBI officials, including McCabe, pressed him not to have the White House counsel present during the questioning with two agents that led to his guilty plea on a single charge of lying to federal authorities. Flynn was not ultimately charged with any Logan Act violation.
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This is one of the most despicable acts by the FBI I have ever seen.  Those responsible for this travesty should be brought to justice.  Meanwhile, as of the time of this post, I have not seen any mention of these revelations in the Washington Post or the NY Times.  Both outlets appear to have been co-conspirators with the officials behind this setup.  This was an unconscionable action by law enforcement.  It may have been based on Obama's hostile attitude toward Flynn and Trump.  Flynn had warned Obama of his strategic mistakes in Syria and it appears that Obama never forgave him for being right.

The attempt to get Flynn fired was successful only because of the wrongdoing by those at the top of the FBI.  The bad actors at the FBI followed up on this travesty by setting up the Mueller investigation to further harass the Trump administration.  Many of the prosecutions of that group of Democrat partisans appear to have been bad faith attempts to create process crimes too.
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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....
This may explain why certain publications are not making a big deal out of this obvious abuse of power.  Durham is likely to make it a big deal.

John Solomon has more on the revelations about the FBI handling of Flynn including their failure to warn him of why they were questioning him.

Update:  The NY Times weighs in:

Flynn Lawyers Seize on Newly Released F.B.I. Documents

The documents show details of a debate among F.B.I. officials before interviewing Michael T. Flynn in 2017, days after he lied to the vice president about his talks with a top Russian diplomat.
The lead ignores the explosive nature of the material and raises an unrelated issue.

The Washington Post gets closer to home, without mentioning its own role in the plot in its lead:

Michael Flynn’s defense claims FBI notes show agents tried to entrap him

The former Trump national security adviser has moved to withdraw a guilty plea for lying to the FBI about Russian contacts.
The link was buried on their home page.  It should have been the major headline.  It is one of the biggest scandals in the history of the FBI.

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