The tide is turning for former National Security Advisor Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and if his attorney has her way the entire case will be thrown out. It should be. The retired three-star general has had his life turned upside down for more than three years as former senior Obama Administration officials targeted him, attempted to destroy his reputation and dragged him through a Special Counsel investigation that culminated in his decision to plead guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. His attorney, Sidney Powell, is doing what should have been done since he first sought an attorney for his defense — Fight for her client. His indictment was one of the most egregious and most apparent set-ups that occurred during the FBI’s now debunked and extremely flawed probe into President Trump’s campaign and Russia. Flynn is and was a victim of the FBI’s malfeasance. The bureau’s malfeasance, unfortunately, played into a much larger scheme by former senior Obama Administration officials and supporters of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They weaponized the intelligence community and distorted the power of the Justice Department in an attempt to remove Trump from office and rattle his administration. More accurately, it was and is a ‘soft coup’ by those who hated Trump more than they respected the Constitution they swore to defend. Powell’s explosive 37-page brief reveals significant details and evidence suggesting the investigation into Flynn was a setup and she correct in arguing to the court that his case must be dismissed. “If there is any integrity in the D.C. US Attorney’s office and the Department of Justice, they will move to dismiss this case now in the interest of Justice,” Powell told me Friday. She’s right and without equivocation. Flynn’s long respected military reputation was sullied by untruthful and inaccurate media leaks both in the United States and Great Britain. It was an attempt to frame him and discredit Trump. His finances were drained. His family suffered and those associated with him were also dragged through Washington D.C.’s very dirty and muddy swamp. Target Flynn, Target Trump Everything that happened to Flynn, happened for one reason only: It was to target Trump and it’s still ongoing. This has led to a slew of new evidence against the bureau and validation of alleged misconduct by its FBI agents, some of which had been slowly trickling out since former senior Obama Administration officials began targeting Flynn openly in January, 2017. Further, she reveals concrete evidence that the government is still holding onto significant Brady material that would fully exonerate her client. It would also hold responsible senior federal law enforcement and Justice Department officials who distorted facts and leaked lies to the media about the three-star general. Because of this, Powell is demanding that the court require that the government produce all evidence related to Flynn. She is also urging the court to hold prosecutors in contempt and “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct.”

The Evidence

The most significant evidence against the FBI validated in Powell’s brief was the circumstances surrounding Flynn’s first interview with the FBI on Jan. 24, 2017 and the manipulation of the interview report, known as a 302, from that interview. The interview was conducted by now fired FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, whose texts messages later revealed he was vehemently anti-Trump and current FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka, who has never spoken publicly on the matter. In December, 2017 this reporter revealed that it was Strzok who had interviewed Flynn and that the interview itself was a set-up. Powell noted that “on February 10, 2017, the news broke—attributed to ‘senior intelligence officials’—that Mr. Flynn had discussed sanctions with Ambassador Kislyak, contrary to what Vice President Pence had said on television previously.” Then, according to documents, “overnight, the most important substantive changes were made to the Flynn 302.” “Those changes added an unequivocal statement that ‘FLYNN stated he did not’—in response to whether Mr. Flynn had asked Kislyak to vote in a certain manner or slow down the UN vote. This is a deceptive manipulation because, as the notes of the agents show, Mr. Flynn was not even sure he had spoken to Russia/Kislyak on this issue. He had talked to dozens of countries.” On Feb. 13, 2017 Flynn resigned as National Security Advisor. Excerpt from my December, 2017 story: The former U.S. intelligence official told this reporter, “with the recent revelation that Strzok was removed from the Special Counsel investigation for making anti-Trump text messages it seems likely that the accuracy and veracity of the 302 of Flynn’s interview as a whole should be reviewed and called into question.” “The most logical thing to happen would be to call the other FBI Special Agent present during Flynn’s interview before the Grand Jury to recount his version,” the former intelligence official added.

Pentagon Leaks? Flynn’s Conversation With Kislyak

The interview regarded Flynn’s conversation with with then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which occurred in December, 2016, as previously published by this reporter. His private conversation was being monitored by the FBI, which had a FISA warrant on the Russian ambassador. The contents of conversation, from highly classified transcripts, were leaked to David Ignatius with the Washington Post, and he published the story in early January. Powell reveals in her filing that she has requested the records of FBI spy Stefan Halper, who worked as a contractor for the Pentagon Office of Net Assessment (ONA) and director James Baker. Halper, who is a professor had and spied on several of Trump’s campaign aids, may have information. According to Powell “ONA Director Baker regular lunched with Washington Post Reporter David Ignatius.Baker is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn’s calls to Ignatius.” Flynn Was Tricked Flynn was also tricked into the interview with the FBI. It’s no exaggeration. Former FBI Director James Comey admitted it whole heartedly with a smile on his face and a satisfaction that comes from a man who truly is a narcissist. Flynn’s interview with Strzok and Pientka occurred at a chaotic time when the Trump White House was still settling in and very disorganized, as Comey suggested in an interview. Interestingly, Comey admitted to Congress later during a hearing that the agents at the time didn’t believe that Flynn lied in his interview. None of it mattered. They were setting him up. They already had the transcripts of his phone conversations but chose not to tell him, hoping they’d trip him up in the interview. When they couldn’t trip him up, somebody manipulated the 302 report of their interview with him. Even though they had no evidence Flynn had lied, they didn’t care. The prosecutors and FBI have the power of the purse and the ability to threaten and strong arm those they want to prosecute. That’s what they did. The prosecutors threatened that they would drag his son Michael Flynn Jr., whose wife had just given birth to their first child, into a major legal mess, several sources with direct knowledge told me. Further, Flynn had already paid his previously high priced attorneys an substantial amount of money and his finances were depleted. He eventually had to sell his home and ended up spending more than $1 million for his defense that has left him in debt. Powell’s Filing Supports Previous Reporting

In January, 2018 I reported on Sean Hannity’s Fox News that several U.S. officials – with knowledge of the FBI interview- had informed me that the 302 interview of Flynn, had been altered or manipulated to make it appear that there may have been a discrepancy in his statements to Pientka and Strzok. In her brief Powell reveals that the FBI has never granted access to the original 302. She also lists serious discrepancies with the 302 that was submitted by the agents, text messages that reveal the 302 was more than likely altered and more importantly the revelation that numerous text messages between Strzok and his paramour FBI lawyer Lisa Page have still not been released by the FBI or Justice Department. Page worked directly for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. McCabe is currently under a criminal probe. “This was the most important interview the FBI did—carefully orchestrated by the Director (James Comey) and Deputy Director (McCabe) after many internal discussions, and extensive meeting of the upper crust of the FBI for no valid purpose,” Powell’s brief states. “The original 302 is not ‘missing.’ If the government will not produce it, it could only have been deliberately destroyed, and this prosecution should be dismissed on that basis alone.”

Powell alleges that the manipulation of the 302s by FBI officials is compounded by evidence in text messages between Strzok and Page and the actual notes taken by the agents the day that they met with Flynn at the White House. Her argument suggests Flynn was framed from the onset.

Powell also notes in reference to the 302 that agents added: “or if Kislyak described any Russian response to a request by Flynn.”

“That question and answer does not appear in the notes, yet it was made into a criminal offense,” Powell wrote. “The draft also shows that the agents moved a sentence to make it seem to be an answer to a question it was not.”