"DON'T DO ANYTHING": The FBI Note...
"DON'T DO ANYTHING": The FBI Notes vs. the FBI Report
647withchuckfrank by Chuck Frank
S2 · E341
Sep 10, 2026
27:24
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On Wednesday the White House Government Transparency Task Force declassified and released the handwritten notes two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, took while interviewing General Michael Flynn on January 24, 2017. The typed official summary of that interview, the form the FBI calls a 302, did not go into the bureau's system until more than 20 days later. Flynn was charged with lying in that interview, pleaded guilty, later moved to withdraw the plea, and was pardoned in 2020. Here is what the handwriting says next to what the typed report says. On what Flynn told the Russian ambassador, Pientka's notes have Flynn saying "Hey, don't do anything." The 302 has him saying "Not really. I don't remember. It wasn't, 'don't do anything.'" On how many calls he made that day, the 302 says Flynn remembered making four to five; one agent's notes s ... 

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