What’s behind the guilty plea of Gen. Michael Flynn?
NOVANEWS
By Brian Becker
Michael Flynn
It is critically important to understand the crime that Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to on December 1.
Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to “lying” to the FBI four days after Trump became president. The FBI, then led by James Comey, knew they had the “goods” on Michael Flynn from the fourth day of Flynn’s tenure as National Security Advisor.
By January 24, the FBI agents had in their possession secret transcripts provided by the National Security Agency of two phone calls that Flynn had with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak following Trump’s victory in the November 2016 elections.
Flynn pleaded guilty to not having told the whole truth about these two calls during his voluntary interview with FBI agents on January 24.
The first of the two calls w...