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UK memo warned about dossier author’s 'credibility,' Flynn team alleges in explosive filing

foxnews.com/politics/susan…

According to the filing, a letter was "delivered by the British Embassy to the incoming NatSec team after Trump’s election, and to outgoing NatSec Adviser Susan Rice" that "... disavows ... Christopher Steele, calls his credibility into question and declares him untrustworthy."

Nevertheless, the FBI relied on Steele’s work -- funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee through opposition research firm Fusion GPS-- to obtain and renew secret surveillance warrants to monitor a former Trump aide.

Claims by Steele led investigators to cast a wide net in scrutinizing the Trump team.

Flynn's legal team also sought documentation concerning "former Acting AG @SallyQYates, regarding her opinion that the Jan. 24, 2017, surprise interview of Mr. Flynn was problematic and her lack of clarity of the FBI’s purpose in investigating Mr. Flynn."

Flynn was not charged with wrongdoing as a result of the substance of his calls with then-Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak --

A Washington Post article published 1 day before Flynn's White House interview with the agents, citing FBI sources, publicly revealed that the FBI had wiretapped Flynn's calls and already cleared him of any criminal conduct.

Flynn was charged with one count of lying to the FBI for his allegedly “equivocal responses” to FBI agents during that interview,.

Flynn told agents "not really" when asked if he had sought to convince Kislyak not to escalate a brewing fight with the U.S. over sanctions imposed by the Obama administration, according to government documents.

The FBI, including then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, pushed Flynn not to have a lawyer present at what seemed to be a casual meeting at the White House, Flynn later said.

The former national security adviser's lawyers argued in a status conference this week that the case against Flynn should be thrown out, accusing the prosecution of "egregious conduct and suppression” of evidence before and after his guilty plea.

“We've ... learned that there was a letter dated Jan. 30, 2017, or an internal memo from the DOJ, that completely exonerates Mr. Flynn of being an agent of Russia, and that document has not been produced to us yet," Powell said, according to a transcript of Tuesday's hearing.

Powell continued: "So they had a lot of information that they didn't disclose. They also have knowledge of a letter from the British Embassy that completely discredits [Trump dossier author] Christopher Steele and undoes the whole Steele dossier debacle."

The records also indicated that Flynn reported, on two separate occasions, in the days leading up to his White House firing, that FBI agents told him the bureau investigation was over or being closed out.

"There is far more at stake here than sentencing," Powell said. "There were stunning failures to produce Brady material, going back to July of 2017."

Via @gregg_re