Foxnews | Former National Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn's lead attorney
accused top officials of orchestrating a plot to frame her client,
insisting that former President Barack Obama himself was in on it.
Flynn had initially pleaded guilty to providing a false statement to the FBI regarding his contact with a Russian ambassador, but later changed his story and pushed back by questioning the FBI's tactics.
"These
agents specifically schemed and planned with each other how to not tip
him off, that he was even the person being investigated," Powell told
Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," pointing to evidence that FBI agents
took a casual approach with Flynn, not telling him they were
investigating him and not warning him that it would be a federal crime
to lie during their conversation.
"So they kept him relaxed and unguarded deliberately as part of their effort to set him up and frame him," Powell said.
According
to recently released testimony, President Obama revealed during an Oval
Office meeting weeks before the interview that he knew about Flynn's
phone call with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, apparently surprising
then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates.
After the meeting, Obama asked Yates and then-FBI Director James Comey
to "stay behind." Obama "specified that he did not want any additional
information on the matter, but was seeking information on whether the
White House should be treating Flynn any differently, given the
information."
