After new documents showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation plotted to entrap ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on perjury charges, the Department of Justice announced it was dropping the criminal charges against him.

It came after the top prosecutor, a former member of ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team into Russian collusion, moved to withdraw from the case:

Brandon Van Grack, a former member of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, moved to withdraw from the Justice Department’s prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday. He did not provide a reason for his withdrawal.

Van Grack leads a team that has been accused by Flynn’s attorneys of prosecutorial misconduct. New FBI documents stemming from Flynn’s move to withdraw his 2017 guilty plea have amplified conservative claims that prosecutors sought to entrap the former top Trump aide into lying about his conversations with the former Russian ambassador.

Attorney General Bill Barr appointed an outside prosecutor in February to examine the case against Flynn, which both President Trump and Vice President Pence have weighed in on in recent days.

With a new legal team in January, Flynn was moving to withdraw his guilty plea. In October of 2019, his lawyer, Sidney Powell, alleged that top DOJ officials plotted against Flynn.

The point is that there was no reason at all for the FBI to interview Flynn. In fact, when the interview was conducted, the agents said they didn’t think the then-national security adviser did anything wrong.

It was at a time when the anti-Trump forces in DC and elsewhere were just craving anything to prove that there was Trump-Russia collusion. To this day, there is still zero credible evidence proving this conspiracy theory.

Flynn was a victim, as was former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, who was spied on by the FBI for his supposed role in this farce.

U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen found much wrong with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s investigation of Mike Flynn. An aspect that deserves more attention is the alteration of an FBI agent’s account of the Flynn interview.

For more than half a century, FBI agents conducting interviews have been required to memorialize any information that might become testimony, on a form called the FD-302. It was always considered the interviewing agent’s FD-302. Its purpose was to reflect what the agent observed and heard.