What Was Joe Biden's Role in the Michael Flynn Prosecution?

"Michael Flynn, Michael Flynn. Never heard of him."


Today, it appears that the Michael Flynn case will finally end as a federal appeals court has affirmed the Justice Department's request to dismiss the case.

Also today, we learn the Justice Department had turned over a document to the Flynn attorneys relating to an early January 2017 White House meeting in which the Flynn matter was discussed. According to notes by the infamous Peter Strzok, the meeting included himself, outgoing President Obama, Vice President Biden, Sally Yates, Susan Rice and FBI director James Comey. According to Strzok's notes, Obama, Biden and Comey made some interesting comments.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/23/peter-strzok-notes-found-from-key-period-before-white-house-meeting-on-michael-flynn/
(H/T Breitbart)

“Strzok’s notes believed to be of January 4, 2017, reveal that former President Obama, James Comey, Sally Yates, Joe Biden, and apparently Susan Rice discussed the transcripts of Flynn’s calls and how to proceed against him,” Powell wrote. “Mr. Obama himself directed that ‘the right people’ investigate General Flynn.”
-Fox News

And "the right people" did investigate Flynn. It wasn't your normal street agents, but the highest levels of the FBI in their cushy hqs who directed the investigation for political purposes to submarine Trump. The infamous Strzok-Flynn interview took place at the White House on January 24.

And according to Strzok's notes, in the early January meeting,  Comey had told the group that Flynn's telephonic contact with the Russian ambassador to the US was "legit".

And Joe Biden? According to the notes, it was Biden who suggested using the Logan Act against Flynn, an act which was over 200 years old and has to this date never been successfully prosecuted. 

But wait. Biden has on at least two occasions denied being involved in the investigation and/or prosecution of Flynn.  The first time was while being interviewed by ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America on May 12, 2020 (H/T Washington Examiner). 

"I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn," Biden said. "This is all about diversion. This is a game this guy plays all the time. The country is in crisis. ... He should stop trying to always divert attention from the real concerns of the American people.”

"But Stephanopoulos followed up, noting that Biden was reported to be in attendance at a Jan. 5, 2017, meeting where he and former President Barack Obama "were briefed" on the FBI's plan to interview Flynn about his conversation with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period.

"I thought you asked me whether or not I had anything to do with him being prosecuted," Biden replied, after fidgeting with his earpiece. "I was aware that there was, that they asked for an investigation, but that's all I know about it."

The other occasion was during a May 14, 2020 town hall interview by MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell.

"O’Donnell asked. “Mr. Vice President, what was your involvement in the investigation of Michael Flynn and the FBI investigation of Michael Flynn?

“I was never a part or had any knowledge of any criminal investigation into Flynn while I was in office, period. Not one single time,” Biden emphatically replied."

In addition, Biden was also one of those people in the Obama administration who requested the unmasking of information related to Flynn (H/T Red State).

What the FBI did to Michael Flynn was one of the sleaziest operations in the history of federal law enforcement. It is all coming out in the wash thanks to the release of documents that show what these people did. But it gets worse. This was all being discussed in the Oval Office with the President, Vice President, FBI director, and others present. What this shows is that the FBI  was coordinating the operation against Flynn with the outgoing administration-in the Oval Office.

It also shows that Joe Biden is a corrupt liar.