This is no surprise at all. But outrageous. Glad they were able to find these notes-
Explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in
the White House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
The handwritten
notes -- written by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap after a meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Fox News is told -- further suggested that agents
planned in the alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the Logan Act."
The Logan Act is an obscure statute that has never been used in a criminal prosecution; enacted in 1799, it was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States abroad in an era before telephones.
"What is our goal?" one of the
notes read. "Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"
"If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ + have them decide," another
note read. Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley
called the document's implications "chilling."
The memo appears to weigh the pros and cons of pursuing those different paths, while indicating that the White House was monitoring the situation: "If we’re seen as playing games, WH will be furious."
READ THE UNSEALED FBI EMAILS, HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS
The bombshell materials strongly suggested the agents weren't truly concerned about Flynn's intercepted contacts with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, except as a pretext. Former President Obama personally had warned the Trump administration against hiring Flynn, and made clear he was "not a fan,"
according to multiple officials. Obama fired Flynn as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014.
Explosive new internal FBI documents unsealed Wednesday show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute...
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