Thread by @kyledcheney

JUST IN: The notes filed believed to be Jim Baker's show him wondering whether FBI officials should inform Flynn that they caught him in a lie.

"What is our goal? Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute."

Notes say risk is WH could see this as game-playing.

Baker appears to be leaning against anything that could be viewed as hurting the institution of the FBI but it's not clear what subsequent deliberations occurred or how decision was reached.

In short, the new notes suggest at least one prominent voice in the FBI — at the time he wrote these notes — leaned toward telling Flynn they caught him in a lie to get him to be truthful, rather than sit on it to get him fired/prosecuted.

As a colleague points out to me: We don’t know if these notes are Baker’s personal thoughts/questions or he was taking notes that reflect someone else’s thoughts/questions.

ALSO NOTABLE: Within days of the Flynn interview, DOJ went straight to the White House. Acting AG Sally Yates talked to McGahn about the interview and indicated they had caught Flynn in a lie.

Flynn's subsequent explanation to the VP resulted in him getting fired.

NEW: The FBI notes, likely of former counterintelligence boss Bill Priestap, reflect deliberations at the upper levels of the FBI about how to respond if Flynn lied to agents — whether to confront him on the spot or not.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2020/04/2…

@joshgerstein The notes, however, have set off a furor among Trump allies who say it's smoking-gun evidence that Flynn was framed and that he must be pardoned or have charges dropped.

politico.com/news/2020/04/2…