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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that there continued to be not just predication,

but even more reason to question Flynn.

Once you had the tapes of the phone calls with Kislyak,

and once you knew that Flynn had lied to the vice president,

the incoming vice president, and other White House officials about the nature of those calls.

If there's nothing wrong, why wouldn't you tell vice president pens the truth?

And if there's something to hide, shouldn't the FBI figure out what that thing is?

I'm Benjamin Wittis, and this is the LawFair podcast May 9, 2020.

The Justice Department moved this week to dismiss the charges against Michael Flynn,

a man who had pled guilty to lie into the FBI.

It was an extraordinary move, one that provoked glee among the president's supporters

and outrage among Justice Department traditionalists and critics of the president.

We put together on Friday afternoon a discussion of the Justice Department's move

and the rationale for it that it spelled out in a brief to the court.

Joining me in the virtual jungle studio were

Quinted Jurassic LawFair's managing editor Susan Hennessy, our executive editor

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