MUELLER’S MESS: ‘Missing Document’ from Mueller's Office Could Derail Flynn Sentencing
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The “apparent omission” of a central document from special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent court filing threatens to derail Tuesday’s sentencing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
“U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered the special counsel to turn over all government documents and ‘memoranda’ related to the questioning of Flynn, after his attorneys claimed the FBI had discouraged him from bringing a lawyer to his fateful Jan. 24, 2017 interview with agents at the White House.
He eventually pleaded guilty to making false statements about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador, in connection with that meeting,” writes Fox.
Mueller met the judge’s Friday deadline, but failed to include the original 302 interview document; instead filing a 302 that was created seven months after Flynn’s initial interview.
“Judge Sullivan has a well-established history of taking on discovery issues head-on,” said a former DOJ official. “So providing a seven-month-old FBI 302 is absolutely going to be a red flag for the judge, and I can’t imagine there are not going to be questions about whether there are contemporaneous notes, or a contemporaneous report, that is in the FBI’s possession.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday filed a heavily redacted witness report, known as an FD-302, documenting FBI agents' fateful interview with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on January 24, 2017.
The filing, one day ahead of Tuesday's planned sentencing hearing for Flynn, came shortly after U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued an order Monday requiring that prosecutors publicly turn over the document.
Last Friday, Mueller met Sullivan’s deadline and provided some documents, some of which were heavily redacted. However, the special counsel did not publicly provide the January 302, leading to speculation as to whether one was ever drafted.
Sullivan's order on Monday stated that Mueller's team had made arguments under seal as to redactions they would need to make to the 302. Sullivan ruled that the redactions were appropriate and that due to "strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial records," the 302 could be made public Monday.
The newly released 302 -- which was finalized on Feb. 15, 2017, just two days after Flynn resigned his post after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- states that Flynn told agents "not really" when asked if he had told Kislyak not to escalate the diplomatic conflict over sanctions with the U.S. -- although he later admitted in his guilty plea to doing so.
"I don't remember," Flynn told the agents, according to the 302. "It wasn't, 'Don't do anything.'"
Flynn, in fact, had asked Kislyak to "refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed on Russia that same day," according to prosecutors, who said Kislyak "had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request."
Flynn also denied to investigators that he had asked Russia to vote in any particular way at the United Nations.
Flynn lied to Mike Pence but THAT IS NOT A CRIME!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missing-flyn...ng-hearing
Today
The “apparent omission” of a central document from special counsel Robert Mueller’s recent court filing threatens to derail Tuesday’s sentencing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
“U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan had ordered the special counsel to turn over all government documents and ‘memoranda’ related to the questioning of Flynn, after his attorneys claimed the FBI had discouraged him from bringing a lawyer to his fateful Jan. 24, 2017 interview with agents at the White House.
He eventually pleaded guilty to making false statements about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador, in connection with that meeting,” writes Fox.
Mueller met the judge’s Friday deadline, but failed to include the original 302 interview document; instead filing a 302 that was created seven months after Flynn’s initial interview.
“Judge Sullivan has a well-established history of taking on discovery issues head-on,” said a former DOJ official. “So providing a seven-month-old FBI 302 is absolutely going to be a red flag for the judge, and I can’t imagine there are not going to be questions about whether there are contemporaneous notes, or a contemporaneous report, that is in the FBI’s possession.”
Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Monday filed a heavily redacted witness report, known as an FD-302, documenting FBI agents' fateful interview with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn at the White House on January 24, 2017.
The filing, one day ahead of Tuesday's planned sentencing hearing for Flynn, came shortly after U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan issued an order Monday requiring that prosecutors publicly turn over the document.
Last Friday, Mueller met Sullivan’s deadline and provided some documents, some of which were heavily redacted. However, the special counsel did not publicly provide the January 302, leading to speculation as to whether one was ever drafted.
Sullivan's order on Monday stated that Mueller's team had made arguments under seal as to redactions they would need to make to the 302. Sullivan ruled that the redactions were appropriate and that due to "strong presumption in favor of public access to judicial records," the 302 could be made public Monday.
The newly released 302 -- which was finalized on Feb. 15, 2017, just two days after Flynn resigned his post after he misled Vice President Mike Pence about his communications with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak -- states that Flynn told agents "not really" when asked if he had told Kislyak not to escalate the diplomatic conflict over sanctions with the U.S. -- although he later admitted in his guilty plea to doing so.
"I don't remember," Flynn told the agents, according to the 302. "It wasn't, 'Don't do anything.'"
Flynn, in fact, had asked Kislyak to "refrain from escalating the situation in response to sanctions that the United States had imposed on Russia that same day," according to prosecutors, who said Kislyak "had chosen to moderate its response to those sanctions as a result of his request."
Flynn also denied to investigators that he had asked Russia to vote in any particular way at the United Nations.
Flynn lied to Mike Pence but THAT IS NOT A CRIME!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/missing-flyn...ng-hearing
