In this latest move to wipe away Flynn’s criminal case, Barr’s DOJ also acts as a further cover-up for Trump’s own obstruction of justice.
Russian President Vladimir Putin as being “very smart” for declining to retaliate. In Jan. 2017, Flynn lied to the FBI about this interaction. In Feb. 2017, Trump then requested that former FBI Director “let go” of the bureau’s investigation into Flynn and fired Comey in May 2017 after he declined to do so, which formed the basis for Mueller’s obstruction of justice investigation of the president.
“Whatever gaps in his memory Mr. Flynn might or might not reveal upon an interview regurgitating the content of those calls would not have implicated legitimate counterintelligence interests or somehow exposed Mr. Flynn as beholden to Russia,” Shea wrote. Bowman waved away this claim as nonsense that had been previously rejected by the judge in the case, Emmet G. Sullivan. “The [government’s] excuse for moving to dismiss is remarkably disingenuous and utterly inconsistent with what DOJ argued earlier in the same case,” he told me in an email. “It’s also potentially damaging to federal law enforcement going forward.
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