Eli Lake, Columnist

The Case Against Michael Flynn Now Looks a Lot Weaker

The FBI applied the squeeze in a way that undermines the rule of law.

April 30, 2020 at 9:45 PM UTC

Corrected

May 1, 2020 at 5:25 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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Remember Michael Flynn?

The man who holds the record for shortest tenure as national security adviser is back in the news. He pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition in late 2016 and early 2017. Then, in January of this year, he vacated that plea. Now the Justice Department has released documents that, says his new defense counsel, show that Flynn was set up by the FBI.