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Justice Department opens inquiry into FBI interview at heart of Flynn's guilty plea
NBC "News" ^
| February 14, 2020
| By Carol E. Lee
Posted on 02/14/2020 11:16:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON The Justice Department recently opened an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the FBI's interview of Michael Flynn while he was serving as President Donald Trump's national security adviser, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.
Flynn pleaded guilty to giving false statements to the FBI during that interview, but recently asked to withdraw that plea, further delaying his sentencing.
Attorney General William Barr asked the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Jeffrey Jensen, to look into Flynn's FBI interview, the people familiar with the inquiry said. The inquiry began within the past month, they said.
Around that same time, federal prosecutors on the Flynn case came under pressure from senior Justice Department officials to recommend a lighter sentence for Flynn than they had proposed, according to people familiar with the matter.
A third person familiar with the inquiry said Jensen is broadly reviewing the Flynn case.
Asked about the inquiry into Flynn's FBI interview, a spokesperson for Jensen said, "I can't answer those questions" and directed questions to the Justice Department.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2016; fbi; flynn; witchhunt
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To: lepton
Another valid point in taking down the seditious Lawfare construct.
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02/14/2020 2:04:47 PM PST
by
romanesq
(8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
To: Williams
Agree 100%. So much that is posted here is juvenile junk -- mere venting and empty blather. Then someone like you posts something thoughtful like that. Thanks.
What went on today seems to be an admission by Barr and the DoJ that prosecuting McCabe on the lesser crime of leaking to the press was a no winner considering the fact that it would have to be done a heavily Democrat/DC voter pool. But that doesn't "end it" for McCabe there. While the world is absorbed by that "shiny object" of news and while DJT says nary a word, Barr makes the big play of assigning a special prosecutor to investigate the Flynn case.
On his radio broadcast today Sebastian Gorka interviewed Joe DiGenova today about this. He thought it was a great move by Barr who retains the full confidence of Trump. In fact Barr probably briefed Trump prior to doing it.
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02/14/2020 3:32:27 PM PST
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EliRoom8
To: fuente
>>Window dressing. They wont charge ANYONE. No one will be presecuted. Ony Flynn. Zero confidence. None, NADA, ZIPPO!<<
Try doing a wee bit of homework before venting.
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posted on
02/14/2020 3:36:00 PM PST
by
EliRoom8
To: EliRoom8
Sure man, sure. Zero confidence.
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posted on
02/14/2020 5:30:23 PM PST
by
fuente
(Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
To: ImNotLying
Don’t be an impatient, uninformed....what you called Barr....
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02/15/2020 3:08:24 AM PST
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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