Ken Starr: Flynn case a 'travesty to our justice system'
Ken Starr discusses the Democrat tactic of attacking Trump over the pandemic rather than reviewing Michael Flynn's case
Former Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr told “The Brian Kilmeade Show” Monday that the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is “a travesty to our justice system.”
Starr added that “there were all kinds of issues and problems" with the interview of Flynn conducted by two FBI agents at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017
Internal FBI documents unsealed late last month show that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing Flynn and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
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“We now know the interview should never have taken place,” Starr told host Brian Kilmeade on Monday, adding that while the investigation may have been "legitimate" when it began in 2016, the FBI had recommended the case against Flynn be closed just weeks before.
“It’s dead, but it hasn’t been formally closed and then it’s kept alive and so life is pumped back into it,” said Starr, referencing a Jan. 4, 2017 text message in which then-FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok told an unidentified colleague, "Hey don't close RAZOR" -- referring to the Flynn probe's codename, CROSSFIRE RAZOR.
“And then [former FBI Director] Jim Comey and [former deputy FBI Director] Andrew McCabe handle the situation in a very unprofessional, I think, unethical fashion," Starr added. "Namely, not going through [the] proper process in sending the agents over, not giving General Flynn warning that this really is an investigation as opposed to ‘Hey, we’re all friends. We’re just trying to get to the bottom of a few things. Welcome to your role as national security adviser' and so forth.”
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He went on to point out that “even then, the agents did not think that General Flynn was lying.”
“So the whole thing, it’s tragic for General Flynn, but it’s also a travesty to our justice system,” Starr said concluded. “It should not be defended and yet it is. This is defending, in my judgment, it’s defending the indefensible.”
Fox News’ Brooke Singman and Gregg Re contributed to this report.
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