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Evidence conflicts with court claims Mueller created

Government notes about the FBI’s interview with former Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen Michael Flynn show the agents believed he was truthful and “very open and forthcoming” about his contacts with Russians.

Just the News investigative reporter John Solomon reported the evidence conflicts with the bureau’s charge that Flynn was lying to agents.

The handwritten notes by Tashina Gauhar, who then was a deputy assistant attorney general, said FBI agents during the Jan. 25, 2017, meeting told the Justice Department Flynn was “telling truth as he believed it” and he “believe[d] that what he said was true.”

The notes were turned over to Flynn’s defense counsel this month.

A DOJ memo describing Flynn as “very open and forthcoming” said he did not commit any crime. Nevertheless, Flynn was charged with lying in a prosecution that was part of special counsel Robert’s Mueller’s multi-million dollar special counsel investigation. After nearly two years, Mueller found insufficient evidence to back the claim of Trump-Russia collusion.

Solomon reported the notes were written by Gauhar, fired FBI lead investigator Peter Strzok and former DOJ and FBI official Dana Boente.

The notes add to the large body of belatedly released evidence indicating the FBI did not believe it had grounds to charge Flynn.

Boente wrote that the FBI believed Flynn was not an agent of Russia.

And the notes indicate the DOJ didn’t believe a Logan Act prosecution was possible.

“The notes also confirm previously released evidence showing the FBI planned on Jan. 4, 2017, to close down its investigation of Flynn but then reversed course,” Solomon reported. “Remarkably, the FBI claimed to DOJ the reason it kept the Flynn probe open and interview him was because a news media leak of a classified transcript of his call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.”

The case against Flynn now is before a federal appeals court, which ordered a trial court judge, Emmet Sullivan, to grant the DOJ’s request that the prosecution be dropped. He’s refused so far and has asked the appeals court for another chance at making charges stick.

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