Now that the Justice Department is moving to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, the former Defense Intelligence Agency director may be eligible to recover his access to the nation’s top defense secrets.

Flynn, who headed the DIA from 2012 to 2014 under President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with Russia’s ambassador to the United States during the transition to the Trump administration, in which he was briefly national security adviser. But Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, later declared his innocence and argued he was set up by the FBI.