Mike Flynn’s name remained in the reports due to the importance of his role in certain contracts
’s allies are escalating their probes into the origins of the Russia investigation, announcing their intention to issue subpoenas for information about the “unmasking” of—the president’s former national security adviser, who was forced out of the administration after less than a month over his shady contacts with then-Russian ambassador, and later to federal investigators, about the interactions, and admitted as much when he pleaded guilty toin 2017.
But he has since become a cause for the president and other Republicans, who say he was set up by deep state actors working in concert withadministration, which—as the conspiracy theory goes—was improperly spying on Flynn and others in Trump’s circle. “I’m trying to explain to the American people what happened in Crossfire Hurricane,”But there appears to be a problem with the “unmasking” theory: Flynn was not, in fact, unmasked in the report on his Kislyak call. Thethat, in the FBI’s report about communications between Flynn and Kislyak, Flynn’s name appeared unredacted, making the hunt to find out who in the Obama administration sought to reveal his name in intelligence materials—well, kind of unnecessary. “They included Flynn’s name from the beginning,” a former United States official told thepoints out, government officials request redacted names in intelligence reports be “unmasked” to get a better sense of what they are reading. But, the official told the paper, Flynn’s name was unredacted because his identity was essential to understanding the importance of the contacts outlined in the reports. Trump, in contrast, has insisted that Flynn was the victim of a set-up as part of a larger scheme to subvert his presidency. He latched onto documentslast month as evidence: notes and emails among FBI agents apparently written in preparation for their interview with the retired general. “What is our goal?” an official wrote in the notes. “Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” The right immediately called for his exoneration, and
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