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February 20, 2018
Judge orders Mueller to hand over evidence that proves Flynn's innocence
Judge orders Mueller to hand over evidence that proves Flynn's innocence
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team may have withheld exculpatory evidence in prosecuting former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Robert Mueller - Former Director of the FBI (2001-2013) Currently head of the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. In May 2017, Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign electoral intervention by Russia in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
James B. Comey - Former Director of the FBI from 9/4/2013 until his dismissal on 5/9/2017.
President Trump fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, abruptly terminating the top official leading a criminal investigation into whether Mr. Trump's advisers colluded with the Russian government to steer the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Michael Flynn - Former Trump NSA adviser. Michael Thomas Flynn is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General who served in the U.S. Army for 33 years, from 1981 until 2014. In January 2017 he briefly served as National Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Prosecutors working for Mueller charged Flynn with lying to FBI agents on November 30, 2017. He pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI before federal judge Rudolph Contreras the next day. Contreras was recused from the case less than a week later -- likely because he served on the special court that allowed the FBI to surveil the Trump campaign based on a FISA application that relied heavily on the unverified anti-Trump dossier.
Flynn's alleged crime occurred on Jan. 24, 2017, when two FBI agents went to the White House to question him about telephone conversations he'd had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition in late December 2016.
Subsequently, according to the Washington Examiner, "Comey told lawmakers that the FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe that Flynn had lied to them, or that any inaccuracies in his answers were intentional."
Flynn's Crime:
On December 1, 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller agreed to a plea bargain where Flynn pleaded guilty to "willfully and knowingly" making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding conversations with Russia's ambassador. Specifically, Flynn is accused of falsely claiming that he had not asked Russia's ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak on December 29, 2016, "to refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed against Russia that same day."
Former FBI director James Comey admitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee last May that he leaked a memo detailing his conversation with President Trump deliberately to "trigger" Robert Mueller's investigation. Since Flynn's guilty plea, we've learned that that memo was classified.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 20, 2018 at 11:33 AM
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