(05-07-2020 02:22 PM)UofMstateU Wrote:
The Jan 24, 2017 Flynn interview:
“untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn...[and] conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
“The calls [between Flynn and Kislyak] were entirely appropriate on their face”
The evidence shows his statements were not “material” to any viable counterintelligence investigation—or any investigation for that matter—initiated by the FBI”
“Indeed, the FBI itself had recognized that it lacked sufficient basis to sustain its initial counterintelligence investigation by seeking to close that very investigation without even an interview of Mr. Flynn”
“With its [CI] investigation no longer justifiably predicated, the communications between Flynn and Kislyak—the FBI’s sole basis for resurrecting the investigation on Jan 4—did not warrant either continuing that existing [CI] investigation or opening a new criminal investigation”
Nor was anything said on the calls themselves to indicate an inappropriate relationship between Mr. Flynn and a foreign power.”
“Indeed, Mr. Flynn’s request that Russia avoid “escalating” tensions in response to U.S. sanctions in an effort to mollify geopolitical tensions was consistent with him advocating for, not against, the interests of the United
“At bottom, the arms-length communications gave no indication that Flynn was being “directed and controlled by ... the Russian federation,” much less in a manner that “threat[ened] ... national security.” They provided no factual basis for positing that Flynn had violated FARA.”
“In any event, there was no question at the FBI as to the content of the calls; the FBI had in its possession word-for-word transcripts of the actual communications between Mr. Flynn and Mr. Kislyak”
“With no dispute as to what was in fact said, there was no factual basis for the predication of a new counterintelligence investigation”
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Breaking news: DOJ is dropping the Michael Flynn case
