An FBI agent who worked in Mueller's office told agents there was a "get Trump attitude by some" of the people who worked on the special counsel review, according to a very unusual court filing by DOJ just before midnight.
The agent said special counsel prosecutors tended to take the most sinister potential meaning from Trump's public remarks, and also that the attorneys were persuaded there was criminal wrongdoing to be found and they were competing to find it first.
(As it happens, the special counsel investigation found quite a bit of criminal conduct, including by Trump's campaign manager, his deputy campaign manager, a longtime adviser, a bunch of Russians and others. DOJ helpfully lists it here: justice.gov/sco.)
DOJ submitted the interview summary, conducted Sept. 17, to buttress its earlier request to drop the prosecution of Mike Flynn. But the agent believed that Flynn lied to the FBI; he disagreed whether Flynn had sinister motives. He seems to suggest KT McFarland lied, too.
The filing suggests there was disagreement within the FBI and within Mueller's office about the merits of the Flynn investigation. But the agent who raised those concerns also suggested interviewing Flynn, obtaining NSLs for some of his records, etc.
All this either proves political persecution or suggests the FBI doesn't move in lockstep and that @petestrzok went out of way to include an agent skeptical of the premise on the team investigating Trump's connection to Russian election interference.
.@big_cases has the whole thing. If nothing else, the prosecution of Mike Flynn is providing a very granular view of how things work inside the FBI. ->
(And I will now go back to this CIFIUS CLE.)
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