FARRELL: Michael Flynn Should Be Exonerated

From Chris Farrell’s Op-Ed for The Daily Caller:

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was set up by corrupt FBI agents — and they almost got away with it.

On Wednesday, a handwritten note was released by court process from then-FBI Counterintelligence Director Bill Priestap from January 2017. The note concerned the pending FBI ambush interview with Flynn that became the basis for the criminal charges to which he later pled guilty. The note should have been produced to Flynn and the court years ago. “What’s our goal?” Priestap wrote. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” There is no more damning evidence of the FBI’s corrupt intent to destroy an innocent man.

Their working theory was that Flynn had violated the dormant 1799 Logan Act – which makes it illegal for private citizens to have official dealings with foreign officials – in a series of phone calls starting in December 2016 during the presidential transition period with Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. The FBI thought they had Flynn in a jackpot – he either lies about his contacts, or they make a Logan Act case. Priestap wrote, “If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ & have them decide. Or, if he initially lies, then we present him [redacted] & he admits it, document for DOJ, & let them decide how to address it.” This document proves the Bureau was out to get Flynn, one way or another.

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