Michael Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that soon the role of the Obama administration in "orchestrating" the case against Flynn will become very clear.
Powell was asked by host Maria Bartiromo about the FBI moving to close the Flynn probe and the sudden meeting between then-President Barack Obama, Jim Comey and John Brennan, among others:
The morning of January 4, the FBI drafts a document to close the Flynn probe, Crossfire Razor. They wanted to close it. They had nothing, so they want to close it. So the next day, on January - later that afternoon, Peter Strzok texts, don't close the Razor yet. And the seventh floor is involved.And then there's a meeting in President Obama's Oval Office. Talk to us about that, Sidney, because Sally Yates was there, Jim Comey was there, John Brennan was there, James Clapper was there briefing President Obama in the Oval Office on the Russia probe. Joe Biden and Susan Rice were there as well. This was January 5, 2017. Walk us through it.
Powell responded by explaining the background:
Exactly. Well, the day before, Comey had found and McCabe had found the transcripts of Flynn's call with Kislyak. And he briefed Clapper on it immediately. Clapper then immediately went and briefed President Obama on it.Then they have the Oval Office meeting on the 5th. Comey admits in his testimony that the FBI are the people that unmasked General Flynn, our people, whatever that means. And at the meeting on the 5th, Sally Yates was stunned because Obama mentions to her out of the blue about the call and the transcript of the call.She knew nothing about it, because Comey hadn't briefed DOJ.
She continued:
So, then they dispatch Comey the very next morning to brief President Trump only on the salacious aspects of the dossier on January 6 to set the news hook for BuzzFeed and CNN to run with the dossier they knew was a lie.Then Peter Strzok is watching a CNN report on that and texts about he and Priestap sitting there watching it and using it as a pretext to go interview some people. So the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the FBI, Clapper, Brennan, and in the Oval Office meeting that day with President Obama.
When Bartiromo asked Powell who she believed would be charged in the matter, Powell replied, "I have no idea. That's up to John Durham and Attorney General Barr."
