Dirty Hands

The Federalist reports that documents from the FBI show their hands are dirty in the Michael Flynn case. Inappropriate political motivation appears evident.

Handwritten notes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that had been inappropriately withheld from Flynn’s defense team for years show that a key goal of the agents investigating Flynn was “to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired.”

In early 2017, FBI agents planned to question Flynn under false pretenses and without his attorneys present regarding his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

The note-taker, whose identity was not made clear in the document production, wrote that an alternate goal is to “get [Flynn] to admit breaking the Logan Act,” a reference to a 1799 law restricting communications between private citizens and foreign governments. The law is widely viewed as unconstitutional and has never been used to successfully prosecute a single American citizen.

We begin to see more clearly why President Trump fired FBI Director Comey. Comey is abnormally tall, I wonder if they make orange jumpsuits in his size?