Mueller releases memo summarizing FBI's interview with Michael Flynn

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Special counsel Robert Mueller has released a January 2017 FBI memo detailing the interview by agent Peter Strzok and another FBI agent with President Donald Trump's then-national security adviser, Michael Flynn.

In the interview described in the memo, Flynn lied about his contact with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak.

The memo outlines Flynn describing his conversations with Kislyak, offering at times more benign descriptions of the talks than the special counsel ultimately outlined.

The FBI agents, at one point, remind Flynn about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador that he had not recounted to that point.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/17/politics/mueller-memo-michael-flynn-interview/index.html

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https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5633260/12-17-18-Redacted-Flynn-Interview-302.pdf

[ffr]

1. Thus far, Mueller has Vice President Mike Pence off his radar or so it appears.

But the simple fact that Mike Pence was aware of the memo from which Donald Trump said was why he fired Comey, implicates the Vice President in the obstruction of justice end of the Russia probe.

I don't see how Pence isn't named here by Mueller in the next several weeks. Everything happening thus far is just tiptoeing around it.

[fountainofyouth]

2. Realistically, no

Pence being aware of plans to fire Comey wouldn't be enough to prove obstruction. Trump is his boss. Trump made the decision to fire Comey. Unless there's evidence that Pence specifically was a driving force behind the decision, and that the decision was made in order to interfere with the Russia investigation, Mueller wouldn't have grounds to implicate Pence in obstruction.

Follow Occam's razor on this one: The fact that we haven't heard Pence's name a lot means, most likely, that he is not in significant legal jeopardy.

[24601]

3. There are laws for specific categories of people who have a legal obligation to report suspicions of

crime. In most states, teachers and day care workers must report suspected child abuse.

For most people, there is no duty to report absent special circumstances. You can witness all sorts of things and have no obligation to volunteer the information. You can't lie to an investigator, but you have no obligation to talk to one either.

[Gothmog]

4. From the Hoarse WHISPERER

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