Kimberly Strassel reviews what we already know to really understand how outrageous these new Michael Flynn documents are

We’ve had plenty of good threads on the newly unsealed Michael Flynn documents courtesy of tweeters like Techno Fog and Catherine Herridge, and now here’s the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel with her own thread on what we already knew and how it ties into what we’re just learning.

1) To really understand how outrageous are these new Flynn docs, you have to add to everything we already know. And key is remembering that the FBI had no REASON to interview Flynn. It already had transcripts of his conversations with Kislyak.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

Those unsealed FBI notes even asked, “what is our goal” in terms of interviewing Flynn.

2) The new docs show FBI had already cleared Flynn of ludicrous claims that he was agent of Russian power; it moved to close that investigation on Jan 4 2017. But then DOJ cooked up the absurd Logan Act claim, the notion Flynn had violated an obscure 1799 law.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

3) Again if they thought he violated Logan, all they had to do was prosecute. They had the transcript. Their problem? They knew such ridiculousness would never fly. So how how else to nail Flynn? As the notes show, Logan just became the pretext for interview.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

4) The real goal was trap him into saying something at odds with transcript, to "get him to lie." And the evidence of that strategy is everywhere. We have Comey bragging that they went around WH legal counsel, so Flynn would have no representation.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

6) We have McCabe docs showing he discouraged him from getting lawyer. FBI decided to get rid of standard admonition altogether. Also did not tell Flynn he was being interviewed in an "investigatory" context, suggesting this was a chat between gov officials.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

7) As for liberal commentators/legal scholars saying all this is "routine," well, let's sure as hell hope not. The FBI exists to investigate cries–not create them.

— Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) April 30, 2020

“What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”

Reason: To get him fired.

— RJMAC (@rjmac_mi) April 30, 2020

Excellent summary. Well done.

— Custer (@CusterCluster) April 30, 2020

This whole thread is spot on @KimStrassel , thank you! Now let justice prevail and start prosecuting these assholes that attempted what was clearly a coup. I don't see how this doesn't go all the way up to Obama, this is the tip of the iceberg and it is disgusting.

— Clayton Young (@ClaxtonBrown) April 30, 2020

They should all be prosecuted. They conspired to set him up and deprive him of his rights, then hid the evidence of their crimes for years as they prosecuted him.

— PIAccount (@PIAccount1) April 30, 2020

Until justice is served on these perpetrators, nobody can possibly be safe from governmental overreach and abuse. Watergate was nothing in comparison to the abuse of power unfolding before us now.

— ATX Libertarian (@libertyinatx) April 30, 2020

The FBI had no reason to interview #Flynn pic.twitter.com/w5nOdpqwvh

— BoogieFinger (@boogiefinger) April 30, 2020

They had a reason. Their reason was treason.

— notallowedtosay (@havetobecompli6) April 30, 2020

It their main play … get dirt (or create it) on those who have power to reign them in so they continue to get away with the lies and treasons.

It’s the only play they know! Instead of fighting crooks they are the crooks themselves.

How long have they been at it?

— Ami (@Flavia1024) April 30, 2020

Not a single one of these treacherous dirty cops will ever spend a minute behind bars. The DOJ has already passed on any indictments for McCabe, Strozk, Page or anyone else for that matter. Face it – It's a two-tiered justice system.

— LOBO (@genec51) April 30, 2020

As a former law-enforcement officer who has investigated more than 14,000 crimes, IMO, the FBI acted unethical and illegal in what they did to Flynn. Those FBI officials are an embarrassment to all of law-enforcement and should be prosecuted.

— Frank (@Frank38328140) April 30, 2020

We’re not holding our breath on that one, but it would be good to see.

Related:

Newly unsealed texts show Peter Strzok intervened to keep Michael Flynn’s case open after FBI declared case ‘no longer viable’ https://t.co/6LS6CeoaLn

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 30, 2020