The Epoch Times
New Analysis
Current lawyers for Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former Trump adviser, have long been suspicious of the fact that Flynn’s former lawyers, who convinced him to plead guilty to lying to the FBI, came from the same law firm that employs Eric Holder, former attorney general to President Barack Obama.
This connection has now gained prominence with newly released documents that show Obama’s Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had lunch with Holder’s former chief of staff, Gary Grindler, on Jan. 25, 2017—the day after the FBI’s interview of Flynn at the White House where he allegedly lied. The documents, Yates’s work calendars, were released due to a Freedom of Information request and posted online on Sept. 21 by Twitter user “Techno Fog.”
Grindler held a position of utmost trust in Holder’s circle. He was briefed on the infamous operation Fast and Furious in 2010 when he served as acting deputy attorney general and was later criticized for his handling of the matter by the Justice Department’s inspector general (pdf). But Grindler never laid any blame on Holder and denied having told him about the operation. Holder told the IG that he probably only learned about Fast and Furious in February 2011, after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) sent him two letters about it. Grindler didn’t dispute it and quietly resigned the following year.
In 2015, after leaving office, Holder became a partner at the sprawling law firm Covington and Burling—the same firm Flynn hired shortly after the DOJ started to prod him in December 2016 about a lobbying job his then-defunct consultancy did for a Turkish businessman.
Documents released this year show that Obama and his vice president, Joe Biden, discussed the Flynn case with Yates and then-FBI Director James Comey in early 2017.
Handwritten notes by Peter Strzok, who at the time headed FBI counterintelligence operations, indicate that Biden brought up during the meeting the Logan Act. The obscure 18th century law has never been successfully prosecuted and is possibly unconstitutional, but the FBI still used it as a reason for expanding its investigation, which was already in the process of being closed before FBI leadership intervened, Strzok’s text messages from the time indicate.
Holder needs to be in Jail! This poor excuse for a human being who has put General Flynn through hell the last 4 years needs to be stripped of his Financial Holdings and given to general Flynn for his terrible treatment, and bogus charges! Do it NOW! Indict him and all of his Co- conspirator’s, and take all of their Asset’s too, and give to General Flynn! Let general Flynn testify about all the Obama corruption that he tried to stop , and got this treatment for doing so, let the good times roll!