Trump Was Right to Pardon Michael Flynn
The FBI’s conduct in its investigation of the president’s former national security adviser was inexcusable.
Anyone questioning the merits of President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon Michael Flynn should read the Justice Department’s summary of its interview with FBI agent William Barnett on Sept. 17, 2020.
Barnett, who was the bureau’s case agent on the Flynn investigation, was interviewed as part of U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen’s review of that probe. In May, the Justice Department dropped its prosecution of Flynn for making false statements to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition in 2016. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is overseeing that case, has taken the unusual position of not allowing the prosecution to drop its case, leaving Flynn in legal limbo for the last six months.