Chuck Ross
Investigative Reporter
May 11, 2020 12:36 PM ET
A leak to The Washington Post in January 2017 proved central to the investigation of Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.
Documents in Flynn’s case show which Obama administration officials were aware of the information that leaked to WaPo. Transcripts of congressional interviews released Thursday also show that several Obama administration officials denied being the source of the leak.
The Justice Department filed a motion to drop charges against Flynn.
Sidney Powell, a lawyer for Flynn, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the sources behind the leak should be investigated for a conspiracy against Flynn.
Documents released last week have helped fill in the timeline of events that preceded a leak to The Washington Post that is central to the federal case against Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser.
House Intelligence Committee transcripts released Thursday show that several Justice Department officials, Obama White House officials and others in the administration denied being the source of the leak, which WaPo columnist David Ignatius published on Jan. 12, 2017.
The Justice Department also released emails and interview transcripts that show when FBI officials began discussing the Logan Act, an obscure law that the FBI and Justice Department initially wanted to apply to Flynn’s case.
Ignatius made a passing reference in his column to Flynn’s phone calls in late December 2016 with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the United States.
The veteran columnist cited a “senior U.S. government official†who said that Flynn called Kislyak multiple times on Dec. 29, 2016, the same day that the Obama administration announced it was kicking 35 Russian officials out of the United States as retaliation for the Russian government’s hacking of U.S. political campaigns.
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https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/11/michael-flynn-leak-david-ignatius-washington-post/
