How Michael Flynn’s guilty plea implicates Israeli intelligence, and perhaps the Logan Act

Published December 1, 2017 4:15pm ET



Former national security adviser Michael Flynn pled guilty Friday to two counts of lying to FBI agents.

Court filings show one count accuses Flynn of wrongly claiming “on or about December 22nd 2016” that he “did not ask the Russian Ambassador to delay the vote on or defeat a pending United Nations Security Council resolution and that the Russian Ambassador subsequently never described to Flynn Russia’s response to his request.”

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