Treated shabbily, Gen. Flynn owed vindication

By BOSTON HERALD EDITORIAL STAFF

May 4, 2020 at 5:38 a.m.

"Every American should be shocked at the treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn, an accomplished military officer who made his reputation on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Flynn was a casualty of the campaign waged against candidate and President Donald Trump by the Washington establishment, with the Department of Justice as the tip of the spear.

It was a forgone conclusion for many anti-Trump individuals inside of government that something transactional must have happened between the Kremlin and the candidate to give the New York billionaire his election victory over Hillary Clinton.

Intelligence officials were looking at Flynn for signs of collusion or coordination with Russia. They found nothing on him and agents were requesting an end to the investigation in early January 2017 but FBI leadership jumped in and ordered agents to interview him anyway.

They brainstormed how to approach him. According to notes unearthed last week, Bill Priestep, the FBI’s former head of counterintelligence questioned in a note, “What’s our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?”"

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