'Get him to lie': Bombshell documents reveal FBI effort to set up Michael Flynn

Bombshell documents unsealed late Wednesday revealed that top FBI officials viewed the goal of interviewing former national security adviser Michael Flynn in 2017 as to “get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired.” A handwritten note included in the documents disclosed that agents wanted to get Flynn to “admit breaking the Logan Act” and catch him in a lie. It is not immediately clear who authored the note, but Fox News reported it was written by former FBI general counsel James A. Baker. The new revelations boost Flynn’s effort to unravel the government’s case against him. He pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a former Russian ambassador about sanctions on the country, but in January he told a federal judge he “was innocent of this crime.” He filed to withdraw his guilty plea after the Justice Department requested he receive up to six months in prison, although the department later relented admitting probation would be appropriate. The Justice Department turned over documents last week after Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell complained that a February 2018 order in the case required the government to turn over all materials in its possession...MORE