Yesterday, it was announced that nearly 2000 Justice Dept. officials have signed onto a letter calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign over what they describe as his improper intervention in the criminal case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) mocked the 2,000 Justice Department officials who signed the letter for essentially signing a public letter admitting to being part of the Deep State.
Oh look, the anti-@realDonaldTrump Deep State just signed their names to a public letter 👀 https://t.co/AtASrFdA2G
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 11, 2020
Could the letter from the 2,000 Justice Department be in response to the declassification of documents by acting DNI Richard Grenell that will out the players in the Obama regime who were behind the “unmasking” of the highly respected General Flynn? Flynn’s calls with former Russian Ambassador Kislyak were surveilled during the Trump campaign and later leaked to the media.
According to Fox News– An official told ABC News that Grenell visited the Justice Department at some point last week and had the list with him. The move coincided with the department’s stunning reversal in the Flynn case, which was previously seen as special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s signature case from the Russian collusion investigation.
The decision to drop the case was made even though prosecutors, for the past three years, have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Flynn pleaded guilty to this, but later sought to withdraw the plea.
Fox News confirmed that a new round of documents is expected, in the wake of a document dump last week that renewed focus on the Russia investigation and specifically the treatment of Flynn. The unmasking concerns events between the November 2016 election and Inauguration Day 2017, Fox News is told.
The decision to drop the case was made even though prosecutors, for the past three years, have maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. Flynn pleaded guilty to this, but later sought to withdraw the plea.
Another source familiar with the intelligence told Fox News that Grenell is moving to declassify several pieces of intelligence in stages, with this being one part of it. Asked if former President Barack Obama’s name is on the list of officials involving in unmasking Flynn, the source would not say but stressed the list would make waves.
The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the looming release overnight, cited a senior government official who called Grenell’s move unprecedented, as it came just days after the Justice Department dropped its case against Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser. It is now up to Attorney General William Barr to release the names publicly.
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal blasted former President Barack Obama for his “breathtaking hypocrisy” over a recent phone call where he questioned the “rule of law,” in the investigation into General Flynn.
Do you agree with the Wall Street Journal’s assessment of Barack Obama? Do you think he’s afraid of being implicated in President Trump’s coup attempt?
