Justice Department reviewing handling of Michael Flynn case: Source

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Justice Department reviewing handling of Michael Flynn case: Source
The former national security adviser pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
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ABC News
February 14, 2020, 12:36 PM

 The Justice Department is conducting a review of the handling of the case against retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Friday.

The DOJ was not commenting further.

 Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

The New York Times first reported that Attorney General William Barr had installed an outside prosecutor to review the case against Flynn.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/justice-department-reviewing-handling-michael-flynn-case/story?id=68990666&cid=social_twitter_abcn

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Barr Installs Outside Prosecutor to Review Case Against Michael Flynn, Ex-Trump Adviser
NY Times, Feb 14, 2020

Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned an outside prosecutor to scrutinize the criminal case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, according to people familiar with the matter.

The review is highly unusual and could trigger more accusations of political interference by top Justice Department officials into the work of career prosecutors.

Mr. Barr has also installed a handful of outside prosecutors to broadly review the handling of other politically sensitive national-security cases in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, the people said. The team includes at least one prosecutor from the office of the United States attorney in St. Louis, Jeff Jensen, who is handling the Flynn matter, as well as prosecutors from the office of the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen.

Over the past two weeks, the outside prosecutors have begun grilling line prosecutors in the Washington office about various cases — some public, some not — including investigative steps, prosecutorial actions and why they took them, according to the people. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive internal deliberations.

The Justice Department declined to comment.

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The moves amounted to imposing a secondary layer of monitoring and control over what career prosecutors have been doing in the Washington office. They are part of a broader turmoil in that office coinciding with Mr. Barr’s recent installation of a close aide, Timothy Shea, as interim United States attorney in the District of Columbia, after Mr. Barr maneuvered out the Senate-confirmed former top prosecutor in the office, Jessie K. Liu.


More:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/michael-flynn-prosecutors-barr.html

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Charlie Savage
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 SCOOP: Barr installed a team of outside prosecutors, including from St. Louis, to go into the office of the US attorney for DC & review the work of line attorneys handling political sensitive cases — including vs Michael Flynn @adamgoldmanNYT @mattapuzzo https://nytimes.com/2020/02/14/us/politics/michael-flynn-prosecutors-barr.html