Strzok Scrambled to Keep Flynn Investigation Open When FBI Moved to Close It Jan 2017

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok testifies at the Committee on the Judiciary and Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Joint Hearing on, “Oversight of FBI and DOJ Actions Surrounding the 2016 Election" in Washington on July 12, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

On Jan. 4, 2017, the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office drafted a document outlining a closure of its investigation into Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then-adviser to Donald Trump. In the afternoon that day, Peter Strzok, then-head of the bureau’s counterintelligence operations, urgently reached out to agents handling the Flynn case, telling them not to close it, documents filed in a federal court on April 30 show.

Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2017, to one count of lying to FBI agents during a Jan. 24, 2017, interview.