WASHINGTON (AP)– Attorneys for President Donald Trump‘s first nationwide security adviser, Michael Flynn, released internal FBI e-mails and notes that they hope will strengthen their claims that Flynn was allured when he was questioned at the White Home 3 years back.
The documents were made public Wednesday night as Flynn seeks to withdraw his guilty plea to lying to the FBI and makes broad assertions of police misbehavior. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has turned down much of the defense arguments however has yet to rule on whether Flynn can take back his guilty plea.
Meanwhile, a federal district attorney from Missouri is examining the Justice Department’s handling of the case at the instructions of Attorney general of the United States William Barr. The department stated the notes were produced to the defense as part of that ongoing evaluation.
It stays unclear what bearing the documents will have on the case or how substantial the judge will determine them to be. However Flynn has emerged as something of a cause celebre in recent months for fans of the president, who have actually rallied around the retired Army lieutenant basic and seized on the findings of a harshly critical watchdog report on the Russia investigation to attempt to call into question the entire prob