Funny thing when you read the memo in full, as apparently AEase did not.

First, in the now declassified document, Rice notes Comey as the person who gave the basis for her to lie to her successor.

What grounds are stated to justify lying to General Flynn? They seem amazingly thin. Comey claims that Flynn “is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.”

Comey fundamentally admits that Flynn hadn’t said anything improper with Kislyak. Flynn did nothing wrong. Regardless, Obama’s officials take the absolutely unprecedented step of lying to a new administration’s incoming national security staff.

In fact, Obama is noted as stating that apparently "we [the current Administration] cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia" to the entirety of the Trump administration. Kind of a sub-rosa directive to tell them to lie to the incoming administration.

So the long and short is that Rice foresaw that despite the Obama holdovers’ best efforts, the truth about their “Russia investigation” could come to light someday. If that happened, she wanted it to be on record that President Obama had authorized her to lie, on advice from James Comey. This is not the mark of a crystal clean Administration.

Kind of a shocking back and forth in my opinion. Given what we know happened not so long after this conversation to Flynn, seems pretty grotesque to me.