Was Michael Flynn asked to wear a wire in Mueller hunt for evidence on Russia?

[babylonsister]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/michael-flynn-plea-agreement-mueller-russia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Was Michael Flynn asked to wear a wire in Mueller hunt for evidence on Russia?

Plea agreement includes clause showing Flynn consented to participate in ‘covert law enforcement activities” if required

Flynn plea deal increases exposure of senior Trump team members
Marcia Chambers and Charles Kaiser

Sunday 3 December 2017 02.00 EST


The least-noticed sentence in Michael Flynn’s plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller may also be the most important one.

Section eight of the deal reached by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser in the inquiry into Russian meddling in the US election is entitled “cooperation”. It specifies that as well as answering questions and submitting to government-administered polygraph tests, Flynn’s cooperation “may include … participating in covert law enforcement activities”.

Long-time students of federal law enforcement practices agreed, speaking anonymously, that “covert law enforcement activities” likely refers to the possibility of wearing a concealed wire or recording telephone conversations with other potential suspects. It is not known whether Flynn has worn a wire at any time.

“If the other subjects of investigation have had any conversations with Flynn during the last few months, that phrase must have all of them shaking in their boots,” said John Flannery, a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York.

“The one who must be particularly terrified is [Trump son-in-law and adviser] Jared Kushner, if he spoke to the special counsel’s office without immunity about the very matter that is the subject of Flynn’s plea. I think he must be paralyzed if he talked to Flynn before or after the investigators debriefed him.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/michael-flynn-plea-agreement-mueller-russia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[tanyev]

1. Once he decided to flip, I can see him really getting into a cloak-and-dagger spycraft mode.

[OnDoutside]

3. Who would talk to him now that they know he's flipped ?

[tanyev]

5. Presumably he was wearing the wire before it was publicly known that he had flipped.

[OnDoutside]

6. I thought he only flipped in the last week or so ?

[tanyev]

8. There was a lot of speculation that Papadopoulos had wired up long before we found out about him.

[OnDoutside]

9. While that's true, I hadn't seen such speculation re Flynn, time will tell.

[greeny2323]

2. Interesting

This was discussed a little bit on Friday, but so much was happening of course.

You'd have to wonder when Flynn would have the opportunity to record someone, though. Who would be stupid enough to be talking to him in the last few weeks? And how far back could have his cooperation started? I can't imagine it goes back too far. This will be interesting to watch.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. There were the meetings between Trump

And his lawyers and Flynn and his lawyers...

[mopinko]

7. let's hope. i can see it.

these people are stupid enough to talk to him right up until the lawyers quit cooperating.

[shraby]

10. He made the offer to Mueller back in the spring. Maybe Mueller took him

up on it shortly after the offer. Flynn was pretty quiet all summer and fall.