NEW: FBI Director Wray orders an internal review of the Michael Flynn investigation.
The FBI said the review will look at what happened, determine whether any FBI employees engaged in misconduct and should be disciplined and evaluate whether any of the bureau's policies should be changed. A senior official said Friday that Wray's decision to order the review did not mean that he has concluded that the investigation was flawed.
Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to a charge of lying to federal agents, admitting that he falsely described his phone conversations with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. during the Trump transition. Flynn was not Trump's national security adviser at the time of the conversation, which occurred in December 2016. He became national security adviser in January 2017.
Flynn later fired his lawyers, brought in a new team and then asked for the judge's permission to withdraw his guilty plea, a request that has not yet been granted. In January, Attorney General William Barr asked the U.S. attorney in St. Louis, Jeffrey Jensen, to look into the FBI's handling of the case. Those findings led Flynn's new legal team to accuse the FBI of setting out to get Flynn to lie, and they were a significant factor in the Justice Department's efforts, at Barr's direction, to end the prosecution.
Wray said FBI agents who have been helping Jensen examine the investigation will contribute to the internal review, which he said will"complements the already substantial assistance the FBI has been providing" to Jensen.."WOW? And how is he going to investigate himself? And how could anyone trust it?"Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent who covers the Justice Department and the Supreme Court, based in Washington.
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