[Washington Examiner] Newly released internal text messages sent by FBI analysts working on the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in 2016 and 2017 reveal doubt and chaos inside the investigation against President Trump’s first national security adviser, including one missive that said "Trump was right" about a pivotal moment."These documents provide information long known to the agents and others at the highest levels of the Department of Justice and the FBI; information long concealed by the Special Counsel and FBI," Flynn’s legal team said in a Thursday court filing. "This evidence shows outrageous, deliberate misconduct by FBI and DOJ — playing games with the life of a national hero."
Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to FBI investigators about his December 2016 conversations with a Russian envoy, details of which were leaked to the press and generated the controversy that ended his tenure as Trump's national security adviser in the first several weeks of his presidency. But after changing legal teams, Flynn claimed he was innocent and had been set up by the FBI. Attorney General William Barr appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to review the Flynn case, after which a host of new documents deemed exculpatory by Flynn’s lawyers were discovered and Jensen said he "concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case" and recommended this to Barr. The Justice Department has moved to dismiss the case but has met resistance from the presiding judge.
