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Acting FBI Director McCabe disparaged Flynn to agents before Russian probe
[World Tribune] The FBI may have launched its investigation of former national security adviser Mike Flynn as retribution for Flynn’s intervention in a counterterror agent’s gender discrimination case against top FBI officials, including current acting Director Andrew McCabe, a report said.The investigation of Flynn began two years after the retired Army general "roiled the bureau’s leadership" by intervening on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz, Circa reported on June 27, citing documents and interviews. Flynn’s intervention, seen as highly unusual, included a letter in 2014 on his official Pentagon stationary, a public interview in 2015 supporting Gritz’s case and an offer to testify on her behalf, the report said. "His offer put him as a hostile witness in a case against McCabe, who was soaring through the bureau’s leadership ranks." Memos obtained by Circa show that the FBI sought to block Flynn’s support for Gritz, asking a federal administrative law judge in May 2014 to keep Flynn and others from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) case. Two years later, the FBI opened its inquiry of Flynn. A similar story ran yesterday, but it may be something to monitor as the digging continues, and I certainly hope it continues. Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-28 |
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