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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/15/appeals-court-rejects-libel-suit-affair-flynn-481868
By JOSH GERSTEIN 04/15/2021 11:18 AM EDT
A federal appeals court handed another legal defeat Thursday to a Russian-born academic who claims she was libeled by press accounts that she says insinuated she had an affair with former National Security Adviser and Defense Intelligence Agency chief Michael Flynn.
The academic, Svetlana Lokhova, sued several news organizations in 2019 over the reports and also named as a defendant Stefan Halper, a U.K.-based former professor who was a central figure in the FBI investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
A ruling issued by the Richmond, Va.-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday upheld an earlier district court decision throwing Lokhova’s suit out in its entirety.
The appeals court said most of the articles Lokhova claimed were libelous were too old to be included in the suit she filed two years ago. Under Virginia’s one-year statute of limitations for defamation claims, the only publications that were fairly subject to the suit were a Washington Post story and some tweets sent by MSNBC National Security Contributor Malcolm Nance.
The Post reported that at a 2014 dinner, Halper and a colleague “were disconcerted by the attention the then-DIA chief showed to a Russian-born graduate student…according to people familiar with the episode.”
Writing for the appeals court, Judge Stephanie Thacker said that language could not fairly be read as an attack on Lokhova.
“We conclude that it cannot be reasonably read to defame [Lokhova,] either directly or through implication or innuendo,” wrote Thacker, an appointee of President Barack Obama. “Even if we infer the unnamed graduate student is [Lokhova,] it says nothing of her behavior toward General Flynn – it only addresses his behavior toward her.”
Flynn and Lokhova have denied any affair.
Lokhova asserted that Halper was a source for the news stories. A former Republican political operative in the U.S., in recent decades Halper has been a University of Cambridge professor active in foreign policy circles. Halper hasn’t spoken publicly about his role in the Trump-Russia investigation, but numerous press reports say the FBI dispatched him to covertly contact Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos and assess reports that he had information about Russian-backed hacking of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails.
In the new ruling, the appeals court also ruled that Lokhova’s claims against MSNBC over Nance’s tweets fell short because there was no indication Nance was acting for the network when he sent the messages Lokhova sued over. ..
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https://www.courthousenews.com/flynn-transcripts-detail-calls-with-russian-ambassador/
Flynn Transcripts Detail Calls With Russian Ambassador
Transcripts of calls Michael Flynn made to Russia’s then-ambassador to the United States in 2016 surfaced publicly Friday as a legal battle raged in Washington over the Justice Department abruptly abandoning the case against the former national security adviser.
Megan Mineiro / May 29, 2020
WASHINGTON (CN) — Transcripts of calls Michael Flynn made to Russia’s then-ambassador to the United States in 2016 surfaced publicly Friday as a legal battle raged in Washington over the Justice Department abruptly abandoning the case against the former national security adviser.
Flynn twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017 about the communications, before reversing course and withdrawing the plea over allegations of “egregious government misconduct.”
The 21 pages of call transcripts now reveal new details on Flynn discussing U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia by the Obama White House over 2016 election interference with then-ambassador Sergey Kislyak, just weeks before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
After three years prosecuting the case, the Justice Department recently filed a motion to dismiss that raised a wave of criticism over political interference on the part of Attorney General William Barr in the case first brought by former special counsel Robert Mueller.
U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Bill Clinton appointee, opened the door for outside parties to file briefs to weigh in on the shocking reversal and assigned a retired federal judge to argue against the government dropping the case. Looking to force the judge’s hand, Flynn has petitioned to the D.C. Circuit to order Sullivan to grant the Justice Department’s motion.
Flynn had told investigators in a January 2017 interview that he did not ask Kislyak to refrain from escalating the situation and denied remembering a follow-up call that the diplomat later said led Russia to moderate its response on Flynn’s request.
But the transcripts show the then-national security adviser for the Trump campaign reasoning with the ambassador on a Dec. 29, 2016, call to keep things “even-keeled” after Kislyak raised concerns over the sanctions.
“And please make sure that its [sic] uh — the idea is, be — if you, if you have to do something, do something on a reciprocal basis, meaning you know, on a sort of an even basis. Then that, then that is a good message and we'll understand that message,” Flynn said.
“And, and then, we know that we're not going to escalate this thing, where we, where because if we put out — if we send out 30 guys and you send out 60, you know, or you shut down every Embassy, I mean we have to get this to a — let's keep this at a level that uh is, is even-keeled, okay?” he continued.
In the discussion, Flynn repeatedly reassures Kislyak of the incoming administration’s desire to cooperate with Russia as the diplomat reminds him of the sentiments raging in Moscow.
“But I ask Russia to do is to not, if anything, I know you have to have some sort of action, to only make it reciprocal; don't go any further than you have to because I don't want us to get into something that have to escalate to tit-for-tat. Do you follow me?” Flynn asked, and the ambassador said he understood.
Proceeding along those lines, Flynn tells Kislyak that Russia and the U.S. have common enemies in the Middle East, adding: “And we have to, we have to do something about it.” Kislyak, in response, said: “General, I completely agree with you.”
Flynn then goes on to express that he “certainly will relay” the conversation.
“And then uh, I appreciate very much the uh, reservations about the current administration's position on the Middle East. That — that does not do anybody any good right now, with — I mean, you know, you know Ambassador, the situation with Hamas, and the Palestinian situation, I mean, we'll come up with a solution that's good for everybody. We will,” he said.
In a call just days later on Dec. 31, 2016, Flynn agreed with Kislyak that the Obama administration had targeted the incoming Trump team as well as Russia by imposing sanctions.
“And I just wanted to tell you that we found that these actions have targeted not only against Russia, but also against the president-elect,” Kislyak said.
The Russian official then goes on to explain that he hopes that “within two weeks” after the Trump administration moved into the White House, he could work in a “more constructive way” with Flynn. ..
“And with all our rights to responds we have decided not to act now because, its because people are dissatisfied with the lost of elections and, and its very deplorable. So, so I just wanted to let you know that our conversation was taken with weight [sic],” Kislyak said.
“Yeah, yeah,” Flynn said in response.
On the same call, the two men, Flynn at the time a private citizen, discuss Trump being aware of the communications between the incoming administration and the Russian government.
“I haven't gotten, I haven't gotten a, uh, confirmation on the, on the, uh, secure VTC yet, but the, but the boss is aware and so please convey that,” Flynn told Kislyak.
Senator Chuck Grassley, then-chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with ranking member Dianne Feinstein of California first requested the records back in February 2017 after Flynn was fired from the White House for lying to Vice President Mike Pence about the communications with Kislyak. ..
https://nypost.com/2020/05/29/transcripts-of-michael-flynns-calls-with-russian-ambassador-released/
..Recently released documents revealed that the FBI nearly closed an investigation into Flynn on Jan. 4, 2017, after finding no evidence that he was a Russian agent. But Strzok and his mistress, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, with whom he traded anti-Trump text messages, intervened to keep the case open citing the never-used Logan Act of 1799, which bans ordinary citizens from conducting foreign diplomacy. The law is widely considered unconstitutional.
Then-President Barack Obama learned of Flynn’s calls with Kislyak before then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who ran day-to-day operations at the Justice Department. Yates, who was fired by Trump for refusing to defend a travel ban on a group of predominately Muslim countries, was stunned to learn about the Flynn-Kislyak calls directly from Obama at a Jan, 5, 2017, meeting, rather than her subordinates, according to recently released documents.
The FBI’s interview of Flynn occurred outside of standard protocol. Former FBI Director James Comey publicly acknowledged he sent agents including Strzok to interview Flynn days into Trump’s administration without informing the White House counsel’s office. Senior Justice Department leaders also were cut out of the decision, which Yates said frustrated her.
A handwritten note released this month from former FBI counterintelligence director Bill Priestap — following a meeting with Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe — said regarding Flynn: “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”
Flynn was fired by Trump for allegedly lying to Vice President Mike Pence about the calls with Kislyak, which were made with the knowledge of other Trump transition officials. Pence recently said he’s inclined to believe that Flynn did not intentionally lie.
In pleading guilty to lying to the FBI, Flynn avoided charges for working as an unregistered agent of Turkey and agreed to cooperate with investigators in the Russia probe. A subsequent investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion.
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https://nypost.com/2020/05/08/kayleigh-mcenany-michael-flynn-revelations-should-be-taken-very-seriously/
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.. “The interrogation of Michael Flynn was not an inquiry. Make no mistake, it was a trap,” she said.
Strzok and then-mistress FBI attorney Lisa Page determined that Flynn may have violated the Logan Act of 1799 by speaking with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016 during the Trump presidential transition. They kept open an investigation the FBI was prepared to close into whether Flynn was a Russian agent.
McEnany said leaning on the Logan Act was a “new absurd theory” to allow for an interrogation of Flynn. The act never has won a conviction and is widely considered to be unconstitutional.
The press secretary said keeping the case open was “a good thing for Peter Strzok, but it was a bad thing for justice.”
McEnany highlighted recently disclosed objections by then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates to the FBI’s interview of Flynn without notifying the White House counsel’s office.
She also pointed out that the calls Flynn allegedly lied about were made with the knowledge of US officials and the FBI agents had “a transcript in their possession.” McEnany pointed to a handwritten note released last week in which former FBI counterintelligence director Bill Priestap wrote after meeting with then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe: “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” ..