The country may soon hear testimony from retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn about his experience being swept up in the FBI’s Trump-Russia investigation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he plans to invite the former national security adviser to appear before the panel as soon as the case against him is dismissed.
“We will be pursuing the Flynn investigation and try to explain how it got so off the rails, starting with offering General Flynn a chance to come to the committee and tell the country what it was like to go through this,” the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News late Thursday.
Flynn pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States but later declared his innocence and argued he was set up by the FBI.
The Justice Department filed to dismiss criminal charges against Flynn on Thursday, leaving it up to a federal judge overseeing the case to make the final determination on whether to dismiss it.
The Justice Department said in a court filing that after reviewing newly disclosed materials, it agreed with Flynn’s attorneys that his interview with the FBI should never have taken place because his conversations with the Russian envoy were “entirely appropriate.”
