Michael Flynn’s attorneys said Wednesday former Vice President Joseph R. Biden discussed the Logan Act during an early January 2017 meeting about the investigation into President Trump’s former national security adviser.
A handwritten note by former FBI agent Peter Strzok details a meeting he had with top Obama era officials about the Flynn investigation, Ms. Powell said in a court filing.
In the barely legible note from early January 4, 2017, Mr. Strzok writes “VP: Logan Act.”
The document gives no indication who “VP” is, but Ms. Powell says she connected the dots to Mr. Biden, who is the presumptive Democratic candidate for president in 2020.
“According to Strzok’s notes, it appears that Vice President Biden personally raised the idea of the Logan Act,” she wrote. “That became an admitted pretext to investigate General Flynn.”
The Logan Act is an obscure law from 1799 that blocks U.S. citizens with talking to representatives of foreign governments. It has only been used twice — both in the 1800s — to prosecute a U.S. citizen.
Obama-era FBI officials were investigating whether Flynn violated the Logan Act through his calls with the then-Russian ambassador during the transition period before the Trump administration took over.
