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Robert Mueller's team interviewed former CIA Director James Woolsey about Mike Flynn
FBI agents for special counsel Robert Mueller have interviewed former CIA Director James Woolsey regarding allegations that former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn discussed a possibly illegal removal of a Turkish cleric from the U.S."Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have been in communication with the FBI regarding the Sept. 19, 2016 meeting Ambassador Woolsey was invited to attend by one of Gen. Flynn's business partners," Woolsey spokesman Jonathan Franks said in a statement. "Ambassador Woolsey and his wife have responded to every request, whether from the FBI, or, more recently, the Office of the Special Counsel." The FBI has communicated with Woolsey both before and after Mueller’s team took over, according to an NBC News on Friday. Woolsey revealed in March that Flynn discussed with Turkish officials the possibility of removing Fethullah Gulen from the U.S. The Muslim cleric has been blamed by the Turkish government for helping spur last summer's attempted coup to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government. Flynn met in New York with Turkish officials last year when he was a lieutenant general and had been advising the Trump campaign. He reportedly said that Gulen could be removed from the country without using the U.S. extradition legal process. Flynn was removed from his post at the White House earlier this year after it was revealed Flynn misled the administration about his sanctions-related communications with Russians prior to Trump’s inauguration. Emphasis added Posted by: Besoeker 2017-10-29 |
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