These "lied to the FBI" cases are typically political weapons designed to take people who committed no crimes, and launder them into crimes by tripping them up with statements made to the FBI that were not provably false lies.

Just another reason why you should never talk to the FBI unless it is as a victim or on behalf of a victim. Never, ever cooperate otherwise because if you do, all you're doing is giving them the opportunity to trip you up with questions, and even if you answer "I don't remember" which ought to be un-prosecutable since there is no way to prove you did, they still got Michael Flynn on that.

It was revealed during trial that the FBI had paid Danchenko more than $200,000 to serve as a confidential human source for the bureau. Danchenko served as the primary sub-source for the anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. The dossier was commissioned by opposition research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee through law firm Perkins Coie. It served as the basis for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant and renewals against Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Weird how when its left wing source, he gets acquitted, but when it's a right wing target, they never get a break.

"SEEEEEE! HE DID NOTHING WRONG! THERE WAS NO CRIME, IT WAS ALL REAL!" - Every shillbot.