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The handwritten notes of FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka record Flynn’s answer to the question of whether he instructed Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak to hold off on retaliation for Obama-era sanctions as follows: “Not really. I don’t remember. Hey don’t do anything.” In contrast, the official FD-302, written more than 20 days after the interview on January 24, 2017, states that Flynn said “It wasn’t, ‘Don’t do anything.’” One word. One inverted meaning. The FBI’s summary of the interview became the basis for the prosecutors’ argument that Flynn had lied by telling Kislyak not to “do anything.”
The newly declassified handwritten notes of Special Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka, taken during their interview of General Flynn, were released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force this week. The differences between what the agents wrote up in the notes during the interview and what was summarized in the official FD-302 used for the prosecution of General Flynn are striking and systematic.
Handwritten notes from Special Agents Peter Strzok and Joe Pientka taken during their interview of General Flynn show that he couldn’t recall the number of telephone calls he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The subsequent FD-302 completed by the FBI agents reports that General Flynn “remembered” that he made four to five telephone calls to Kislyak. In his interview, General Flynn replied to a question regarding his recollection of telephone calls with Kislyak with “if so, don’t remember” (a non-answer). The written summary of his response was re-written by the time it reached the prosecutors to be a confident positive recollection of four to five calls.
Text messages from the phones of Special Agent Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who did not attend the Flynn interviews, confirm that Strzok was “trying not to completely re-write” the FD-302 and confirmed that it was Lisa Page who submitted the edits for the second version of the FD-302. Flynn’s defense team was, for years, denied this material in violation of the court orders requiring production of all Brady material, i.e. all evidence that could prove harmless his actions.
The material released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force today comes as federal prosecutors are preparing to empanel a grand jury to probe whether the FBI’s Russia collusion operation was a criminal conspiracy to destroy Trump and his allies. Strzok, the FBI agent whose text messages expressing hatred for Trump are already on the public record, single-handedly scuttled the Washington Field Office’s recommendation to close down the Flynn case. He then drove the effort to get General Flynn into a room with the FBI where he could be caught in a lie and fired from his National Security Council position. Both of the interviewing agents subsequently testified that they had not believed that General Flynn had intended to lie to them.
This was the man that President Trump had pardoned in November 2020. He was then pursued in a malicious prosecution civil suit that was settled by DOJ for approximately $1.2 million in March 2025. It will be very interesting to see if any of these agents are finally held accountable for their actions.
