FBI director orders internal review of Flynn investigation

FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2019 file photo, Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, leaves the federal court following a status conference in Washington. FBI Director Christopher Wray has ordered an internal review into possible misconduct in the investigation of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. That's according to an FBI statement issued Friday.

The after-action review will examine whether any employees engaged in misconduct during the course of the investigation and evaluate whether any improvements in FBI policies and procedures need to be made. The announcement adds to the internal scrutiny over one of special counsel Robert Mueller’s signature prosecutions during his investigation into ties between Russia and the 2016 presidential campaign. It underscores how a case that was seemingly resolved by Flynn’s 2017 guilty plea has instead given way to a protracted, politically charged debate about FBI tactics during that prosecution and the Russia investigation more broadly.

Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition period, but the Justice Department says its own review of the case determined that there was an insufficient basis for agents to have interviewed Flynn in the first place and that any statements he made to agents were therefore not relevant to the underlying investigation into ties between Russia and Trump’s presidential campaign.

I hope if I commit a crime and plead guilty I get the same amount of investigation into why someone arrested me FOR BREAKING THE LAW, THE NERVE OF THEM TO INDICT A CRIMINAL

kaitlancollins ha has known all along. His NEW order is only because WE NOW KNOW

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BretBaier How low can they down play this 🐵🙉🙈🙊👀🐒 🤑🤭🤫🤐🎯🇺🇸😎

Wow said it was flawed, is a understatement. I was a trap

kaitlancollins A traitor is a traitor Get Use. To It

BretBaier Water departments destroyed environment making people buy bottled water. Because they do not supply safe drinking water to homes. Water departments spent billions saying they will give safe clean drinking water to homes. They never provided. needs to be an investigation

Please exonerate General Flynn America, he served for our Country, and we can't forget that he put his life up for You!

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BretBaier What the hell took him so long?

BretBaier Nice shades

BretBaier Whitewash coming.

BretBaier Flynn was trapped and threatened into lying by a seriously corrupt and majorly flawed FBI investigation. 1 - 1 = 0. Flynn will most likely get exonerated.

KoskovicsZ promises promises We will get no indictments+like it DNC/RNC falsefight Media talking head$ Politics and media r 100% careerism for them ! Materialism,individual materialism rules roost Marxist doctrine w/Capitalism perfect storm allies defeating same conservative/family foes

BretBaier A lot of good that will do. Should have been done a year ago. RichardGrenell Director Of FBI

BretBaier Rip Van Winkle Wray wakes up.

BretBaier What haven’t they started 3 years ago?

BretBaier It’s about time

BretBaier He was forced, they are checking to see if any bad players are still with FBI, other than Wray that is.

BretBaier So goddamn what? The perps don’t work for the FBI any longer.

BretBaier Lying to the FBI is a crime, Working secretly for another Country while being Defense sec is another crime, lying on your clearance app is a crime, so 3 crimes at minimum but Fox freaks don’t care

BretBaier Yeah sure.

BretBaier I don’t believe he actually lied. I think that much like the mob operates, he was given an offer (choice) that he couldn’t refuse. To do so would have harmed family members. Just bc one is up in high places does not mean they can’t be vile, vicious and evil.

BretBaier The New Democratic Socialist Party ingnores innocence and pursues, with intent to punish, the innocent!

BretBaier Please explain why Flynn pleaded 'guilty'. Many people do no know the coercion that took place in order to make this happen. Dems continue to use the argument he pleaded guilty, but fail to mention the mitigating circumstances leading to this plea. Flynn's plea was heroic.

BretBaier The FBI investigating itself is like the mafia investigating itself. Nobody saw nuttin'. Or if that seems to harsh after Ruby Ridge and Waco and FISAgate ... next time there's a bunch of cookies missing from the kitchen cookie jar ask your toddler to 'investigate.'

BretBaier To little to late the director needs to be fired & we need to clean the top of the house in the FBI & we need to give a new director full authority to drain the swamp

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BretBaier TRUMP CORRUPTION

BretBaier Little late. Butt covering going on here

BretBaier Is there an Inspector General? If so Trump will fire him and name an 'interim' one.

BretBaier Who going do internal review of Christopher Wray?

BretBaier I had to do a double-take to be sure this was a really AP reporting this. Shocked me. Keep on the story and don't bury it

Christopher Wray about to butt heads with Barr.

cryborg Prove PROVE that it was flawed. Until then, no one is above the law

They got away for decades doing these civil rights abuses to the independent movement in Puerto Rico, to the point that hardly anyone wants to identify as a pro independence member.

Time to release his transcript with Kislyak

Forced admission isn't guilty. Hes exonarated

Total waste off time and money Trump get him off anyway

Wray is working on job security. lol In the Trump Criminal Outfit?

kaitlancollins another one who Trump will 'lose confidence' in 🤦‍♂️

What part of plead guilty twice in 2 court rooms flawed?

kaitlancollins The outcome of this internal review depends on whether FBI Director Wray cares more about his job or justice.

kaitlancollins Didn't they do this already? It's like me going through therapists until I find one who says I'm just fine. Which will definitely happen, soon.

Has not yet been dropped. Let it go to court.

He's really sorry he admitted he lied.

So now we're investigating the Trump investigations. What a lovely use if tax payer money! You could save the effort and expense and just arrest them all.

Watch this deep dive into Flynn, Glenn Greenwald knocks a home run.

He admitted his guilt

They threatened his son

Has he FBI ever investigated the FBI NY field office, known as Trumpland, that forced Comey to reopen the Clinton investigation 11 days before the election?

kaitlancollins The only investigation required is how Trump is associated with illegal and criminal activities At least Flynn...for a brief moment of rational thought knew he was wrong to lie to the VEEP and FBI. Til the MafiaDon stepped in.

Flawed, like the Titanic had a buoyancy issue.

End of story

Is Flynn going to see inside of an interview room?

FBI Spying Betrayal to America Never Forget

Psst FBI. GenFlynn did it.

It’s about time Wray did something,but it shouldn’t have taken this long(Deep State)

kaitlancollins THE JUDGE ASKED IF FLYNN SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR TREASON!!!! Treason, people! That's a possible death penalty crime. Our country is falling apart. FlynnIsGuilty FlynnIsATraitor TreasonAtTheHighestLevel

Too late! realDonaldTrump fire Wray! He knows the hammer is about to fall with RepRatcliffe as the DNI and he is shaking in his boots! Get rid of Wray, he is an empty suit like Comey.

You’ve got to be kidding? Another Flynn probe, a traitor who’s twice pleaded guilty to criminal lying?

Oh, I’m sure that will get to the bottom of things. The group that started it all, doing an internal investigation lol.

kaitlancollins Wow. Genuinely surprised to see Chris Wray cower to Barr & Trump. It’s disappointing to see another strong man be emasculated by Trump, who, ironically, has no testicular fortitude. neutered

About time!

Always justice when an entity reviews itself 🙄

'Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. Now here is the kicker but 'the Justice Department said the case was flawed and asked that it be dropped' Seems that this government department lacks understanding of 'Justice' in its name.

Did he? The 302 the agents wrote up 5 days later, which then went under extensive revisions by upper brass in the FBI, vanished. They told him he lied & threatened him, his son, etc. Flynn last words before pleading guilty, 'you sure i lied?' Show us the 302? prove it

Yeah, get on that 4 years later. Dummies.

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