General Flynn lied to the FBI about his December 2016 conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak, as he has now admitted in a plea agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But an odd thing remains unexplained. 

Flynn, as an experienced former intelligence officer, would have known that the U.S. Intelligence Services routinely intercepted such conversations. Therefore his having denied the contents at the time he was questioned is highly strange. 

Rather than to impute this to naïveté, which is implausible, an alternative explanation suggests itself. Flynn might at that moment have misapplied a reflex of concealment which, although irrelevant to the matter at hand, would have had ample relevance to previous matters, as yet undisclosed, and which Flynn might have doubted were yet known to U.S. intelligence. He would then have erred by persisting in a secrecy he would have felt to be quite necessary about such previous matters. 

General Flynn's odd lapse into secrecy, in other words, may give us reason to think the plot is considerably thicker than we would previously have thought. 

Olaf J. Ogland

Old Lyme