In a court filing Thursday, US Department of Justice moved to drop its case against former Trump's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
In the filing, DOJ said “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information,” it is dropping the case.
DOJ concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn.”
FBI agents in January 2017 questioned then National Security Adviser on his communications with former Russian Ambassador Kislyak, and later used his answers to form the basis for the false statement charge to which he pled guilty.
The lead prosecutor on the case, Brandon Van Grack, abruptly withdrew from the case, without explanation, in a brief filing with the court hours before DOJ filed the motion to dismiss.
Van Grack has been under scrutiny for claiming to a federal court that he had turned over all relevant exculpatory informing involving Flynn - though a slew of “exculpatory” documents surfaced last week.
Attorney General William Barr had appointed U.S. attorney Jeff Jensen to review the case against Flynn. Making his recommendations, Jensen wrote “through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. ... I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed."
Recently unsealed documents showed that Former president Obama's FBI tried to frame Michael Flynn in the early weeks of Trump's administration.
READ the full motion to dismiss.
Flynn-Motion-to-Dismiss.pdf