Was it a trap?

Instapundit with links about Flynn:

According to another source, with direct knowledge of the Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone directly at the White House. White House officials had spent the “earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing training and security measures associated with their new roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had called,” the source said.
McCabe told Flynn “some agents were heading over (to the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would be cleared at the gate,” the source said.
“It wasn’t until after they were already in (Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being formally interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney with him,” they added.

sounds like a trap: a busy man without time to review his notes and without a lawyer, and who wasn't read his rights and his "lie" might have been it was a legal action so none of their business.

Flynn is a general not a lawyer...and pled guilty because the legal fees were bankrupting him and were threatening his family.

In essence, he has pled guilty to doing foreign policy -- his job, after all -- at the behest of the president-elect, and then misleading the FBI and the vice president-elect...

There is a basic lesson here for anyone who enters government service: do not ever talk to the FBI unless your lawyer is present. 

this is a political tactic: to trap someone they don't like: and for some reason it seems to be aimed at Republicans and about political, not criminal, actions.

Just ask Scooter Libby, who was punished for making allegedly false statements to FBI investigators. In the Flynn affair, there was no need for the FBI to ask any questions about the telephone chats, since the transcripts were available from the get-go....

Several of the special prosecutor’s targets in Iran-Contra faced ruin when Judge Walsh demanded vast numbers of documents, and we haven’t heard from them since. 

question: Why was the FBI wiretapping Trump's transition team, after he won the election?

The BLM movement is about similar tactics used against the black community.

The real problem: facing bankrupcy, the plea bargain, but one wonders if they faced a jury would "jury nullification" happen, as it did in the drug dealer/illegal migrant who was left off for accidentally killing a lady in San Francisco, because they realized it was an accident and he was being targeted as if it was deliberate.

I am pro police, but unless you realize that justice is supposed to be blind, and it is not, then you recognize that there might be problems in the justice system.

of course, it works both ways: If you leak information about someone the press dislikes, it's okay,, but if you leak information against a politically connected PC politician who just happens to be a bit corrupt (/s), you go to jail. From the CNN article:

The investigation of Kane centered on allegations that a June 2014 Philadelphia Daily News article about a former Philadelphia NAACP official’s alleged misuse of state job-training grants contained confidential information from a grand jury case...

her real sin: how dare she tarnish his good name.

Prosecutors, however, said that her crimes -- which they say have tarnished the attorney general's office and ruined an activist's life in the process -- warranted time behind bars.

Kane is a Democrat, and I have a soft spot in my heart for her, because after 20 years of everyone in Altoona knowing the bishop covered up pedophile rings (and getting a pass by the corrupt establishment) she had the courage to indict the "putangina".