2020-04-27 CEG To DOJ (Flynn) PDF
2020-04-27 CEG To DOJ (Flynn) PDF
2020-04-27 CEG To DOJ (Flynn) PDF
This is no ordinary criminal case. One of the agents who interviewed Lt. Gen. Flynn,
Peter Strzok, was later removed from the Russia investigation after his texts demonstrating
animus and bias toward the President were discovered. Additionally, former Director McCabe
was fired for lack of candor regarding a leak to the Wall Street Journal, and Lt. Gen. Flynn was
an adverse witness in a pending sexual discrimination case against Mr. McCabe at the time Mr.
McCabe was supervising an inquiry targeting Lt. Gen. Flynn. 1 Further, the Flynn case was at the
center of a political firestorm over the President’s alleged statements about it to Director Comey.
Moreover, Flynn himself “had told both White House Counsel and the Chief of Staff at least
twice that the FBI agents had told him he would not be charged,” 2 which is consistent with what
Director Comey told me and my staff. The FBI’s conduct is ripe for congressional oversight.
According to an April 24, 2020, letter from the interim U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia, Timothy Shea, the Attorney General directed that the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Missouri conduct an independent review of the Flynn case. As a result of this review,
the EDMO has identified and produced new documents to Flynn’s legal team, which they have
publicly characterized as exculpatory evidence.
Simply stated, after years of rampant speculation and publicly reported inconsistencies
regarding how the FBI handled the case, it’s time for the public to know the full set of facts
relating to Lt. Gen. Flynn, including any and all government misconduct. In light of the
extraordinary public and congressional interest in this case, I request that you work with Flynn’s
attorneys to unseal these new records provided to them so that the public can access the material.
In the alternative, I request that you amend the protective order so that Congress can review the
information in light of its constitutional oversight prerogatives.
Sincerely,
Charles E. Grassley
Chairman
Committee on Finance
1 See Letter from Chairman Grassley to Inspector General Horowitz (June 29, 2017),
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2017-06-
29%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20IG%20(McCabe%20Conflicts).pdf
2 The Trump Lawyer’s Confidential Memo to Mueller, Explained, THE NEW YORK TIMES (June 2, 2018) (quoting
Letter from John M. Dowd and Jay A. Sekulow, Counsel to the President to Robert S. Mueller, Special Counsel,
U.S. Dep’t of Justice (Jan. 29, 2018)), https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/02/us/politics/trump-legal-
documents html#footnote-0-26; Byron York, Trump Lawyers Reveal Previously Unknown Evidence in Michael
Flynn Case, THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER (June 3, 2018), https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/newlyleaked-
memo-previously-unknown-evidence-michael-flynn-case.