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FBI Director Christopher Wray is taking heat from GOP critics in the wake of new information involving former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn’s criminal case.
Criticism from Republicans in Washington is calling into question the Bureau’s intentions in their investigation.
Explosive new internal FBI documents were unsealed on Wednesday.
These documents include notes that were handwritten by the FBI’s former head of counterintelligence, Bill Priestap. The notes were written after a meeting with then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and then-FBI Director James Comey.
These handwritten notes show that there was a debate over whether the goal of their interview with Flynn was to catch him in a lie.
“What is our goal?” reads one of the notes. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
The notes also suggest agents planned to get Flynn “to admit to breaking the Logan Act” when he spoke to then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
“If we get him to admit to breaking the Logan Act, give facts to DOJ + have them decide,” was written.
The Logan Act is a statute that was enacted back in 1799 — nearly a century before the telephone was invented. It was intended to prevent people from falsely claiming to represent the United States government abroad. It has never been used in a criminal prosecution to date.
Flynn ultimately did not admit to wrongdoing during the interview.
Now, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Mike Johnson (Louisiana) have questioned why this information was not divulged earlier.
“It is well past time that you show the leadership necessary to bring the FBI past the abuses of the Obama-Biden era,” they wrote in a letter to Wray.
On top of that, Kellyanne Conway called on Wray to speak with then-FBI Director Comey and go public with information about that case.
“We have every need to know transparently what happened,” Conway told Fox News.
However, Wray’s office already issued a statement Tuesday.
In it, they explained that the FBI director has “fully cooperated and been transparent” with a review of the Flynn case that had been ordered by Attorney General Bill Barr.
It also explains that he already released the information about Flynn’s interview with two investigations. One investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and another still underway by Connecticut US Attorney John Durham.
