Michael Flynn is seeking exoneration, not a pardon, a lawyer for the former Trump national security adviser said in an interview posted Friday.
“We want to see the court or the Department of Justice declare this case over, done and dismissed in the interests of justice,” Sidney Powell said in a podcast interview with conservative journalist John Solomon.
Ms. Powell did not, however, entirely dismiss the idea of accepting a presidential pardon.
Attorney General William Barr earlier this month tapped Jeffrey Jensen, the U.S. Attorney in St. Louis, to the criminal case of Flynn, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017.
Mr. Jensen is tasked with looking into allegations by Flynn’s attorney that the FBI and federal prosecutors engaged in wrongdoing during the Flynn investigation. But Mr. Jensen is not expected to undermine the Flynn prosecution.
Ms. Powell said she has not had any contact with Mr. Jensen.
When asked what she expects he’ll find during his review, Ms. Powell replied, “I don’t think anything good.”
“If I were he, I think the first thing I would ask for is the original 302,” she said, referring to FBI shorthand for interview notes. Ms. Powell has charged in court documents that the FBI has not presented her with the documents. She says the agency is hiding information related to the case.
Ms. Powell said once the original 302 turns up, she expects the Flynn case would be “dismissed in a week.”
“The 302 has to be extremely exculpatory of General Flynn,” she said. “It probably includes the language of the two agents coming out of the interview convinced he was telling the truth.”
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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