Ex-FBI Official Undercuts Effort to Drop Flynn Case

“A key former FBI official cast doubt on the Justice Department’s case for dropping a criminal charge against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn during an interview with investigators last week,” the New York Times reports.

“Department officials reviewing the Flynn case interviewed Bill Priestap, the former head of F.B.I. counterintelligence, two days before making their extraordinary request to drop the case to Judge Emmet G. Sullivan. They did not tell Judge Sullivan about Mr. Priestap’s interview.”

Meanwhile, Politico reports Sullivan is signaling that he might pursue perjury or contempt charges against Flynn over his effort to abandon an earlier guilty plea to a charge of lying to the FBI.