On Wednesday the White House Government Transparency Task Force declassified and released the handwritten notes two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, took while interviewing General Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. The typed official summary of that interview, the form the FBI calls a 302, did not go into the bureau's system until more than 20 days later. Flynn was charged with lying in that interview, pleaded guilty, later moved to withdraw the plea, and was pardoned in 2020. Here is what the handwriting says next to what the typed report says. On what Flynn told the Russian ambassador, Pientka's notes have Flynn saying "Hey, don't do anything." The 302 has him saying "Not really. I don't remember. It wasn't, 'don't do anything.'" On how many calls he made that day, the 302 says Flynn remembered making four to five; one agent's notes say "I do not remember making 4-5 calls," and the other has "If so, don't remember." Text messages between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page show them discussing edits to that same 302, with Strzok "trying not to completely re-write" it. John Solomon, who co-wrote the Just the News story and chairs the task force that released the documents, says the notes were never turned over before Flynn pleaded guilty. A pardon is not a court finding, and no court has ruled on these notes. Chuck reads the handwriting and the typed report side by side, as reported by Just the News and the Washington Examiner.
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