The General Michael Flynn case grinds on. Flynn has hired a new attorney (Mrs. Sidney Powell) and they were in court this week again. The need for a classified security clearance to review documents was discussed. The DOJ responded by saying no classified information was provided to the prior Flynn defense team. Therefore, Ms. Powell didn’t need to be concerned on that issue.
This means that Flynn was never provided with a copy of the phone call transcript (December 29, 2016) between him and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The content of that phone call lies at the heart of the FBI interview that took place on January 24th, 2017. It became the basis for the charges that he lied to the FBI.
Ignoring for a moment the merits of the Flynn case, one has to ask about the ineptitude (or corruption?) of his previous attorneys for not asking for production of this evidence. There are also all the machinations that occurred in the production of the FD-302 notes from the Flynn interview. But, most importantly, there is the question of how and when Flynn was unmasked.
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