Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were alarmed by FBI treatment of Flynn – IOTW Report

Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were alarmed by FBI treatment of Flynn

The peas must have fallen out of their whistles.

Just The News: A little-noticed letter from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office divulges Obama DOJ concerns about FBI treatment of ex-Trump national security adviser.


Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior Obama-era Justice Department officials told the Russia special prosecutor in private interviews they had concerns about the FBI’s conduct in investigating former Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, according to memos that paint a dark portrait of the bureau’s behavior.

The documents, which include a letter from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team transmitting exculpatory evidence to Flynn’s defense lawyers in 2018, offer the most detailed montage to date about why Attorney General Bill Barr recently appointed a special prosecutor to review the government’s actions in the Flynn case.

Among other things, the correspondence shows:

  • Mueller’s team accepted Flynn’s guilty plea on a charge of lying about his conversations with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak even though agents told DOJ they thought the former general was not lying and simply had a faulty memory.
  • DOJ officials believed the threat the FBI was using to prosecute Flynn under an obscure law known as the Logan Act was a “stretch.”
  • Flynn was lured by the FBI into a fateful interview with agents believing he was not in legal jeopardy, which caused him not to seek a lawyer.
  • Some of the DOJ officials’ assessments to the Mueller team were backed up by former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.

The documents add credence to the arguments Flynn’s new lawyer, Sidney Powell, is making that the former national security adviser was coerced into making his 2018 guilty plea and should be allowed to withdraw it. read more


10 Comments on Obama DOJ officials privately told Mueller they were alarmed by FBI treatment of Flynn

  1. Someone from the obama DOJ contacted mueller and made it clear to him that he better find that letter. Mueller responded, “what letter?”. A couple minutes of silence……”oh, that letter”.

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  2. J6P is correct. The culprits are getting nervous about their personal culpability and playing CYA as the chips begin to fall.

    This indicates that someone has already flipped if they are throwing out chaff like this.

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  3. So let me get this straight….

    Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates and other senior Obama-era Justice Department officials told the Russia special prosecutor in private interviews they had concerns about the FBI’s conduct in investigating former Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn….

    Is this the same dyke who advised McGahn Flynn may’ve violated the Logan Act, testified to the same before Congress and continued to smear Flynn as a traitor to any media whore who would have her on???

    That Sally Yates??? FU Yates. Your spot in hell awaits you.

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  4. So why didn’t the go on record and refuse an immoral order?!?

    They could have easily taped & recorded & documented the bias & then become witnesses going forward!

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