This is a follow up to the April 29, 2020 article "Unsealed Notes Of FBI Official Shows The Agency Set Up General Mike Flynn With The Goal Of Getting Him Fired Or Jailed To Get To Donald Trump." In the article I questioned the validity of the case against U.S. General Mike Flynn, who was set up by the FBI.

The Justice Department stated the interview to entrap Mike Flynn was "untethered" "unjustified" and "conducted without any legitimate investigative basis." The DOJ further stated, "Indeed, the FBI itself had recognized that it lacked sufficient basis to sustain its initial counterintelligence investigation by seeking to close that very investigation without even an interview with Mr. Flynn."

One week later, the case was dropped against Flynn. The announcement was made yesterday. Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, commented on the news, "This was a deliberate, malevolent, concerted effort to destroy an honest man and thereby get to the President of the United States."

Meanwhile, disgruntled former FBI official, Andrew McCabe, referred to the charges being dropped as "pure politics." Considering McCabe misappropriated government money, committed perjury, lied to Congress and the FBI, he needs to shut up (Department Of Justice Files Court Motion Asking Judge To Throw Out Wrongful Termination Lawsuit Of Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe).

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Tainted Gov: Flynn Case Exposes FBI

April 30, 2020 - As far as liberal set-ups go, it certainly followed the formula: a phone call, the Russians, a high-ranking government official's son, lying prosecutors, even some of the same politically-motivated FBI agents. But the case against General Michael Flynn had another familiar storyline in the Left's war against Donald Trump -- a lack of evidence. Based on the bombshell evidence today -- a damning picture of FBI corruption, coercion, and entrapment -- it seems General Flynn's only real crime was ending up in an administration the Democrats wanted to destroy.

He was on the job for less than a month. The three-star Army general had only been working as President Trump's national security advisor for a few weeks when news broke of his resignation. Later, we learned that he'd pled guilty to misleading the FBI about a call he had with a Russian ambassador. But even then, folks said, it didn't add up. A lot of people -- former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy the loudest among them -- cried foul. Why would Flynn lie to the FBI about a call he knew they were listening to? And if there was "no evidence of wrongdoing" in that conversation (as even the Washington Post reported), why was he subject to an investigation in the first place?

"Flynn is not a foreign agent," McCarthy insisted at the time. "There was no need to 'grill' him over the contents of a conversation of which the FBI and Justice Department already had a recording. And the FBI has no business probing the veracity of public statements made by presidential administrations for political purposes -- something it certainly resisted doing during the Obama administration. It is easy to see why Democrats would want to portray Flynn's contact with the Russian ambassador as worthy of an FBI investigation. But why did the FBI and the Justice Department investigate Flynn -- and why did 'officials' make sure the press found out about it?"...

This didn't start when Donald Trump arrived on the scene. The last four years of political prejudice has been staggering, to be sure, but any trust Americans had in the nation's top law enforcement agency was misplaced long before that. Our country deserves better. General Flynn and President Trump deserve better. But the FBI's treatment here is business as usual. And that, some argue, is the scandal. It must stop.

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Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell says prosecution tried 'destroy an honest man'

Thursday, May 7, 2020 - Michael Flynn’s attorney said late Thursday the Justice Department’s prosecution of the former national security adviser was an attempt to destroy President Trump. Sidney Powell, who took over Flynn’s case last summer, appeared on Fox News for a victory lap after the Justice Department dropped criminal charges against her client.

“This was a deliberate, malevolent, concerted effort to destroy an honest man and thereby get to the President of the United States,” said in an interview with Sean Hannity. “There is no doubt about it whatsoever.” Flynn had pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to FBI agents about his communications with the Russian ambassador. He sought to withdraw his guilty plea...

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Justice Department drops case against Michael Flynn after prosecutor withdrew

The Justice Department on Thursday dropped its criminal case against President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, a shocking reversal in one of the most high-profile cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. Flynn pleaded guilty in late 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S...

Despite the lack of evidence, FBI officials went ahead with interviewing Flynn at the White House in January 2017. Flynn’s statements during that meeting were the basis for his prosecution, but the Justice Department said Thursday in a court filing that there was “no basis” to conduct the interview... 

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