Newly declassified portions of a key Susan Rice email confirm that Michael Flynn was personally targeted during a Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting with Obama.
Michael Flynn was personally targeted during a crucial Jan. 5, 2017 Oval Office meeting arranged by then-President Barack Obama, a newly declassified document shows.
On Jan. 20, 2017, as President Donald Trump was being inaugurated, former White House National Security Adviser Susan Rice sent herself a bizarre email detailing the Jan. 5 meeting between her, Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and fired former Federal Bureau of Investigations Director James Comey. In the email, portions of which were not declassified until recently, Rice recorded that Flynn, who at the time was the incoming national security adviser for Trump, was personally discussed and targeted during the meeting with Obama.
Documents previously released and declassified showed that the FBI never possessed any evidence that Flynn was a secret Russian agent or that he had broken any laws. An FBI electronic communication closing the agency’s counterintelligence investigation against him, which was dated Jan. 4, made clear that “no derogatory information” about Flynn had been obtained during the months-long investigation of Flynn.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently determined that an ambush FBI interview of Flynn, which later formed the foundation of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s single charge against Flynn, had no legal basis. Contemporaneous handwritten notes from the FBI’s top counterintelligence official at the time show that the FBI’s goal in targeting Flynn in early 2017 was to “prosecute him or get him fired.”
DOJ is currently in the process of dismissing all charges against Flynn, citing rank corruption and abuse of power in the FBI’s campaign against Flynn.
(h/t X22Report)
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In 2020, President Trump retweeted my post. It said that on January 4th, 2017–one day before meeting w. Obama–Comey (FBI’s “7th Floor”) ordered not to close the Flynn investigation
“Strzok ordered Barnett to close the Flynn case but 20 minutes after the closing doc was circulated, Strzok ordered to keep it open following the intervention of
“7th Floor” (FBI leadership)”
Comey knew the investigation was opened under a false pretense namely Halper’s lies about me and Gen Flynn.
Comey needed the Flynn investigation open to get Trump.
In 2020, President Trump retweeted my post. It said that on January 4th, 2017–one day before meeting w. Obama–Comey (FBI’s “7th Floor”) ordered not to close the Flynn investigation
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