In an extraordinary departure from the Justice Department’s normal handling of criminal cases, the Donald Trump– appointed leadership of the Justice Department on Thursday dropped charges versus Michael Flynn, the previous White Home national security consultant who formerly pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russia.
In a court filing, Trump-appointed U.S. Lawyer Timothy Shea said that even if Flynn lied about his contact with the Russian ambassador to the United States ahead of Trump’s 2017 inauguration, that Flynn’s lies were unimportant to the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into his interactions with Russia.
Shea composed that the FBI’s interview with Flynn was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s