On the eve of Michael Flynn’s sentencing for lying to the FBI, retired Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz joined the chorus of hyperventilating President Donald Trump supporters who claim that Flynn may have lied to the feds, but that doesn’t mean he broke the law. “Flynn did not commit a crime by lying,” Dershowitz said during a Fox News interview Monday. It should be noted that lying to the FBI is indeed a crime when the falsehood in question is material to an investigation, and prosecutors have determined that Flynn’s statements were. Nonetheless, Dershowitz’s assertion has become a favorite for critics of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Those critics believe the FBI tricked Flynn, a former Trump aide, into lying.

Source: Huffington Post December 17, 2018 21:22 UTC