The Mueller Special Counsel's "Investigation" of Gen. Flynn Was Its Most Egregious Abuse of Prosecutorial Authority.

The Obama Admin. Intelligence Community knew Gen. Flynn would expose the duplicity of Crossfire Hurricane -- silencing him was paramount and the Mueller SCO obliged.

Note: After I was well underway writing this article it was announced that Gen. Flynn had settled his civil lawsuit against the federal government related to his prosecution by the Mueller Special Counsel. That settlement was not part of my motivation to address this subject and it is not central to my views. I’m considering a second article examining the circumstances of his guilty plea and why it was corrupted by his counsel operating under an undisclosed conflict of interest.

This is the second of what I anticipate will be a handful of articles recounting some of the events involving the Mueller Special Counsel’s Office. An X reader asked that my second article concern the investigation of former National Security Advisor and retired Army General Michael Flynn.

There are several aspects of the Flynn investigation that are worthy of exploring. This article doesn’t attempt to delve deeply into any one of them, but rather traces of arc of the investigation that began — in my opinion — when the Obama Administration first focused on him as a useful target to undermine the Trump Campaign in 2016 on behalf of Hillary Clinton. Later — after Trump won — those same individuals recognized the threat he represented if he became National Security Advisor and unraveled what they had done as the worst political dirty trick in the history of the United States.

I generally discount the more wacko conspiratorial visions of how some individuals came to be in the cross-hairs of the Obama Administration’s Intelligence Community. I focus my attention instead on the obvious facts that, if I was leading the investigation, would draw my attention in the direction of particular individuals as being worthy of scrutiny.

Because I don’t know enough about Gen. Flynn’s responsibilities on active duty other than he was one of the Army’s top general officers on intelligence matters, my assumptions for how he came to be a focus of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation in the summer of 2016 are a bit more mundane. My understanding is he was something of a contrarian and critic of Obama Administration and Pentagon thinking on a variety of intelligence matters while on active duty, and most of his active duty colleagues didn’t shed a tear upon learning of his retirement.

At the beginning of his retirement he was willing to do things that ran contrary to the conventional wisdom that he left behind — like going to Russia to attend a dinner — accepting a speaker’s fee — seemingly endorsed and sponsored by the Russian government of Vladamir Putin. I’m not suggesting he did or didn’t — that’s just my impression from the little I know about his time between retiring from the Army and joining the Trump campaign as a foreign policy advisor.

I’ve long been of the view that the “Russia Hoax” investigation was from its very inception an operation put in motion by CIA Director John Brennan. He expected to remain in that post during an Clinton Administration. When her campaign was seriously damaged by the investigation into her handling of classified materials, something was needed to do similar damage to the Trump campaign even though pollsters said she was still destined to win.

With Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele doing their part to concoct implausible scenarios in the press connecting Pres. Trump’s campaign to Russian state actors, and there being a cyber intrusion into the computer network of the DNC, the stage was set to put Brennan’s plan in operation — an actual hunt by the FBI for evidence of communication between the Trump campaign and Russia or the Putin government.

There were four identifiable candidates for hanging such a connection on based on their prior contacts with various Russian interests — Paul Manafort, Carter Page, George Papadopolous and …. Gen. Flynn. When Crossfire Hurricane was initially opened as a formal investigation, only Manafort, Page, and PapaD were made subjects. Two weeks after the opening, Gen. Flynn was added as a forth subject, with the Case Agent for Manafort being assigned to Flynn as well.