The Justice
Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against
President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn,
abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for the president
and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
The
action was a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought
by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes 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
himself admitted as much, pleading guilty before asking to withdraw the
plea, and became a key cooperator for Mueller as the special counsel
investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign.
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