"Russian analyst Dmitry Suslov says Flynn's five phone conversations with the ambassador on the day of sanctions were nothing out of the ordinary. 'It was necessary for him to guarantee a smooth transition and devise a foreign policy for the administration,' says Suslov."
Soon after Flynn's resignation, on Feb. 20, Tatyana Stanovaya, director of the Analysis Department at the Center for Political Technologies, wrote at Politcom.ru, according to BBC Monitoring, " Michael Flynn's resignation has come as a great disappointment to Russia, since his name was linked to some degree to hopes of a future warming of relations and a review of the sanctions regime."
Chad Day at AP explains that on January 24, 2017, two FBI agents who had obtained information about Flynn's calls to Kislyak came to the White House to interview him. Day writes, "Flynn agreed to talk with them, and when asked, denied that he told Kislyak to back off from escalating situation in response to the sanctions." He also lied about another time he reached out to Russia, in an unsuccessful bid to protect Israel from UN censure.
Many observers have cautioned that the DOJ decision to urge that Flynn be released from prosecution (apparently on the grounds that he is Trump's buddy) is the beginning of the end of the rule of law in the United States and a further step toward American fascism.
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