Newly released handwritten notes by fired FBI investigator Peter Strzok show President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden had a direct role in the prosecution of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, whose charges were ordered dropped by an appeals court Wednesday.
Strzok - memorializing a Jan. 4, 2017, meeting in the Oval Office regarding Flynn's phone call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak - said that Biden wanted to invoke the Logan Act against Flynn and that Obama ordered the investigation.
The Logan Act is a rarely used 1799 law that bars unauthorized American citizens from negotiating official national business with foreign countries that are in conflict with the U.S. Of further significance is the fact that then-FBI Director James Comey, according to Strzok's notes, said during the meeting that the calls between Flynn and Kislyak "Appear legit."
The notes, submitted in the Flynn case, indicate the potential Logan Act violation became a pretext to investigate the former Trump official.
Previously unsealed court documents revealed the FBI was preparing to shut down the Flynn probe until Strzok personally intervened.
Flynn withdrew his guilty plea after evidence surfaced that he had been the victim of a "Perjury trap." Notes show FBI agents plotting to get Flynn to lie so he could be prosecuted.
Are Obama and Biden the masterminds of the plot against Michael Flynn and Donald Trump?
Strzok - memorializing a Jan. 4, 2017, meeting in the Oval Office regarding Flynn's phone call with Russian Ambassador Kislyak - said that Biden wanted to invoke the Logan Act against Flynn and that Obama ordered the investigation.
The Logan Act is a rarely used 1799 law that bars unauthorized American citizens from negotiating official national business with foreign countries that are in conflict with the U.S. Of further significance is the fact that then-FBI Director James Comey, according to Strzok's notes, said during the meeting that the calls between Flynn and Kislyak "Appear legit."
The notes, submitted in the Flynn case, indicate the potential Logan Act violation became a pretext to investigate the former Trump official.
Previously unsealed court documents revealed the FBI was preparing to shut down the Flynn probe until Strzok personally intervened.
Flynn withdrew his guilty plea after evidence surfaced that he had been the victim of a "Perjury trap." Notes show FBI agents plotting to get Flynn to lie so he could be prosecuted.
Are Obama and Biden the masterminds of the plot against Michael Flynn and Donald Trump?
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